Can a longer apartment lease help an Aggie grad avoid a bad summer renewal date?

Quick answer

Potentially. If you must move during a busy summer period, compare a longer lease with the standard 12-month option to see whether it shifts your next expiration into a calmer season. The longer term still needs to make sense on first-year effective rent and flexibility. Grant treats lease length as both a pricing decision and a renewal-calendar decision rather than automatically choosing 12 months every time.

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