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First Apartment Checklist: Make the Most of Your Search

What's up, everybody? This is Brandon Copeland, aka Professor Copeland. You are now tuned into another episode of Cope'ing With Money.

Recently, I've been doing some research and I found that apartment searches tend to hit a low between November and April. Well, this happens for a few reasons. In northern states, most people don't want to be moving during the middle of a snowstorm, and across the country in general, most families don't want to move their children during the middle of a semester and no one wants to be moving during the middle of the holidays.

What this essentially means is that most people are looking to find new places to live outside of those months – in other words, right now.

So of course, I thought it would be fitting to go over both to save money and help make your moving process as smooth as possible.

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