Winter is coming! With winter right around the corner and the first signs of snowfall showing up across different cities in Canada, we decided to give you some ideas on how to prepare your place for winter.

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Advice to my first-year self

In this week’s blog, we reached out to some of our community members and asked them to give us one piece of advice they would give to their first-year self and here are some of the responses we got.

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More Tips for First-Year Students

In last weeks blog we discussed some tips for first year students. That blog inspired this week’s blog about biggest regrets and lessons learned from students. We put together a list of some of the most valuable lessons from current and previous students. Please take a read because some of these are real eye openers.

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Back to School

We hope you had a great spring and summer and are feeling refreshed. However, the end of the break means the beginning of the fall term. We know you may have bitter sweet emotions about starting the fall term, so we put together a sweet little list to help you with the transition.

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Move-In Inspections

A lot of you will be moving into your new place in the next few days and some of you may have already moved in. We can’t stress the importance of doing a move in inspection because any damages that are identified when you move out, may prevent you from getting your damage deposit back or could lead to a bad referral. If you can hire someone to do a professional inspection, then we think you should. However, if this is not an option for you, we’ve compiled a short list of the top ten items we think you should inspect.