To begin, you gotta start off from where you come from, and that's university housing. The university provides a comprehensive site that covers everything from floor plans to digital tours of on campus dorms to how to get rid of those pesky bed bugs.
The university also provides a guide to moving off-campus that can help you find the best places and even links to a survey the student government board did of landlords in Oakland. Helpfully, they also provide landlord/tenant laws which most college students are not familiar with and tenant rights.
The website landorslum.com was actually founded by two graduates of Pitt after several bad experiences with landlords and off-campus living. It provides a rating system, much like Rate My Professor and allows students to weigh in on landlords on their college campuses.
Last year to deal with the overflow of new students, Pitt placed almost 50 freshman in the Wyndham hotel. The PittNews covered the story very well throughout the year as the situation progressed.
This student guide to Pittsburgh living provides listings for top real estate agencies in Pittsburgh for students looking to make 'the big move off campus'.
A USA Today story from a few years back that mentions a Pitt student death in off campus housing but generally about the correlation between college students deaths in fires and alcohol.
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