have always lived near colleges and the old days are fading fast. the colleges themselves are all starting to jump on the band wagon now. but they can only control the on campus housing. start advertising on campus and CL about a month before school lets out you can score big from just off campus housing. Also get with some of the owners of off campus housing and they will let you clean out the houses some might even give you a few $$ to do it. if they remove fridges and if kids leave lots of heavy stuff behind. have cleaned out off campus housing where they left everything took only personal belongings. you can get some cool and some weird stuff. you also get to learn about the college life kids lead.