I got a halls offer email the other day and was reading through the terms, and it specifies that rent be payed in two large lump sums in September and January.
I was thinking that this will be a probably be a problem- since student finance loans go through in three sections, those rent payments will take such a lump out of them that it'll leave a few hundred to live on in the 3 months between payments.
I guess I'm just wondering if anyone else had thought/asked about it- do they offer alternative payment plans I'm not aware or do you just have to suck it up and find a job first thing?
The other thing I wondered about is that student finance goes through on Sep 29th but the first rent installment is due on the 22nd. I assume the uni must know about this and make that allowance, or do you think it's worth contacting them directly, to be on the safe side?