Student housing nightmare

I thought the hardest part of university was going to be the class, the workload you know everything they warn you about. I however was very wrong! Student housing is an absolute nightmare! Literally, I have woken up too many times to count crying over the difficulties of finding a place to live.

Going into first year you are just assigned a place to live and luckily for me that all worked out, but going into second year you are just thrown into this world where the houses are crap, the rent is ridiculous and everyone wants to live with a different person and you're just left stuck with a crappy living situation and a shit load of bugs everywhere!!!!

Lets start from the beginning so that you can understand the hell student housing is. Around Halloween my 3 roommates from first year and I decided we wanted to live together and started looking for houses.... and then one girl decided to live at home.... and then the next girl decided to live with friends from high school..... and then the last girl's dad said she had to live with her brother.... So me? I was stuck alone, and by then everyone else had already signed leases.

In short, I was incredibly devastated and took being "abandoned" to heart. It was a really hard month for me, but eventually I found a group of 5 girls a year older who looking for a roommate and signed on with them! They even through my birthday party for me, perfect right? WRONG

Towards the end of February the girls informed me they were going to sublet their rooms out for the summer and because I planned on living in the house all summer I asked that they be respectful and run who they want living there by me first so that I was comfortable there. Not too much to ask I didn't think but all hell broke loose! One of the girls went behind my back and rented the rooms to five 35-year-old men, because she "didn't want to look anymore"..... C O O L

This shook me up again and I was convinced I had no home for the upcoming year... I tried to buy out of my lease, have my lease taken over, and find my own sublet but nothing worked! My landlord wouldn't let me leave and no one wanted to share a 1 bathroom, 6 bedroom house with 5 grown men (DUH) so my renting plans were at a standstill.

Eventually the stress got to me, especially as someone who suffers from anxiety it was becoming too overwhelming and I decided to stop the hunt for a sublet and just accept my unfortunate reality. Luckily my boyfriend lives a few streets over and was also staying for the summer so we decided I would move in for the summer and just see how things went. Our little house has truly become my home, I feel incredibly safe, happy and wanted here but with September fast approaching it was time to re-evalute what to do about the other house. Tyler and I had decide we would continue living together, we love it and I am really good friends with all his roommates but he wanted me to keep my room so that I still had a place that was mine. AKA a place for all my shit. I had excepted all of that, it made sense, this was after all supposed to be a guys house and I kinda crashed it. I was set to move the bare minimum over there in September until last night when a girl saw my post from months ago on Facebook about looking for a room. She even asked to see it right away and seemed to love the place and after Ty and I talked we decided to sub the room out and use the money to go towards our rent at the other house! It was all finally working out.... for an hour.... The girl messaged me shortly after saying she couldn't get out of her existing place and all my hopes were crushed.

Today opened up a lot of old wounds for me. Again, I felt like everything was working against me and I broke down. Ty instantly wrapped me up and told me there was nothing for me to stress over, my home is always going to be here with him.

SO now the question remains; do we start looking for a sublet or do we keep the room and just wait out the year.....?

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