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are moving out of a house or mobile home.
Another good method, says Bonnie Lin-
gren, a sales representative for Culpepper
Realty Co., “is for students to check the
classified ads in the local newspapers and
call local realtors to see what is available.
“It’s never too late to start looking.”
Lingren said she is already getting phone
calls from students looking for a house or
duplex to rent this fall. She said she would
not know what specifically will be available
until late July or early August.
“Some will become available in June
when students leave here to go home and
others arrive to attend summer school.”
Lingren said Culpepper rents a number
of low-rent duplexes and houses close to
campus. The unfurnished duplexes rent for
$159 a month plus utilities. Rent for the
houses ranges from $125-175 a month for a
two-bedroom, one-bathroom unit. The
company also manages several duplexes in
Wellborn.
Surprisingly some students are making
down payments towards the purchase of a
home as an investment.
“Right now, it’s a lot easier to buy than
rent a house in College Station,” Lingren
said, “but prices average about $3,000 to
$4,000 higher than in Bryan.
“It’s almost impossible to find anything
here for less than $30,000.”
Brad Crane, a salesman with Jacob Beal
Real Estate, said the firm is having very
little trouble renting its properties.
“Whenever we obtain a property we
place an ad in the following day’s paper. By
8 the next morning the phone is usually
ringing off the wall. The property is usually
rented a half-hour later,” he said.
“There is a desperate need for adequate
rental property in this area and it is just not
available. ”
Crane said his firm is renting mostly two-
and three-bedroom homes, but also rents
apartments, duplexes, fourplexes and
mobile homes. Rents range from $100 a
month for a one-bedroom duplex to $250 a
month for a three-bedroom house plus
utilities. Rent is generally a bit lower for
units in Bryan because of their distance
from the A&M campus.
Marge Freund of Home Finder Realty
said she has a fairly long list of persons,
mostly students, who want to rent a house,
particularly in College Station.
“It’s critical,” she said, referring to the
housing shortage. “The builders are build
ing as fast as they can at mass-production
rates.”
She said a typical two-bedroom house
rented by Home Finder in College Station
costs about $165 a month plus utilities.
Most houses and duplexes, she said, are
rented on a one-year lease.
Many students are finding mobile homes
to be a cheap way of living off campus.
Parents of some students will purchase a
mobile home for them to live in while at
school then sell the unit when the student
graduates. Prices for a mobile home vary
from $2,500 for a small, used unit to $9,000
or more for double-wide units. In the
Bryan-CoIIege Station area rent for mobile
home spaces ranges from about $35 to $50 a
month, depending on the variety of ser
vices provided by the mobile home
park.There are 16 mobile home parks in
the Bryan-College Station area.
Tomorrow: An analysis of the local hous
ing situation.
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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, MAR. 25, 1976
Page 5
Willie Nelson’s Fourth of July pic
nic just might be sponsored by the
Texas Student Association (TSA) this
year. This and other issues will be
discussed at the student lobby
group’s Spring Convention in San
Antonio this weekend.
Members of the Texas A&M Stu
dent Government (SG) will join
members of other student govern
ments in Texas to attend workshops
on different programs the Associa
tion has been working on.
Near the convention’s end, mem
bers will elect the new TSA presi
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Lloyd Bentsen will be there to speak
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scheduled to give a concert Saturday
night.
TSA is considering sponsoring
Willie Nelson’s 1976 Fourth of July
picnic to generate money for Texas
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Jeff Dunn, student body presi
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usual are going to this convention.
He added that A&M is basically
sending underclassmen who will be
here next year, so that they can
familiarize themselves with TSA.
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