Students should carefully inspect an apartment for its physical conditions, personal safety and security features, parking facilities, and other amenities to satisfy themselves before leasing an apartment. You should also review all the rules and regulations (Including those pertaining to security deposit and its refund). Students' Legal Assistance is an excellent resource for legal information to learn your rights.
To find out more about your rights, the landlord/tenant laws, and roommate survival tips from Students’ Legal Assistance, please click HERE
Welcome to the Off-Campus housing section of our website. Our office does not find or place students in off-campus housing units; we do, however provide relevant information necessary for students to successfully find off-campus living options.
Contact our office for access to complete current listings for:
The following forms are for students needing to apply to be released from their housing contract and for those who wish to commute from home.
Requests to Be Released from Hall Contract is for students who wish to move out of the residence halls for reasons of marriage, exceptional causes, greek membership, etc.
Application to Commute is for freshmen who wish to commute from home as opposed to living in the residence halls.
The Off-Campus Housing Fair takes place every year in October and features local apartment representatives in order for students to obtain information about off-campus housing for the next academic year.
If you have any questions, please contact us at (815) 753-9999 or at CommNonTrad@niu.edu.
The Northern Star provides a complete Housing Guide with all of the local apartment complexes available for rent. This listing includes all relevant information necessary to help to make the apartment search as easy as possible. It is broken down by rent, bathrooms, bedrooms, and distance from campus.
To view the Northern Star Housing Guide, click HERE
The Daily Chronicle is the daily news publication for the DeKalb and Sycamore areas. This particular media outlet offers a current classified section where advertisement is placed regarding housing on a consistent basis.
To view the Daily Chronicle Classified Section, please click HERE
Northern View Community is our newest residence hall at NIU for undergraduate and graduate non-traditional students who may be married, have domestic partner, or has dependents. Each apartment comes with a full kitchen with appliances and their own washer and dryer. There is a community center that has a computer lab, kitchen, common area with two flat screen televisions, ping-pong table, and a playground.
Check out the Northern View Community Apartments here.
Housing Authority of DeKalb County
The Section 8 Program was authorized by Congrerss in 1974 and developed by HUD to provide rental subsidies for eligible tenant families (including single persons) residing in newly constructed, rehabilitated and existing rental and cooperative apartment projects.
Visit Places4students Inc., an online, off-campus referral service for DeKalb and surrounding areas.
Any questions or concerns for the places4students team? Please contact Places4students Inc. toll free at 866-766-0767 (Available Mon. to Fri. from 10am-5pm EST) or via email at admin@places4students.com.
To browse the Places4Students database, please click HERE
In order to gain a better perspective on a particular apartment or townhouse you may be interested in, our office has provided a link for a website designed to allow tenants/former tenants to rate apartments. In addition, if you currently reside in one of these apartments or townhouses, please feel free to rate your apartment.
Our office is only providing links to these sites. We are not affiliated or agree/disagreement with the views and comments expressed by those who utilize the services.
To view the Rate My Apartment database, please click HERE
MOVING TRUCK RENTALS
Here is a list of local rentals for moving truck when you are moving.
U-Haul Co.
1802 Sycamore Road, DeKalb
815-895-2842
Budget Truck Rental
901 East Lincoln Highway, DeKalb
815-756-3479
North American Van Lines
Based in Rockford, IL - Moving Company
815-756-3517
STORAGE UNITS
Running out of storage space in your home? Need to find a place for storage? Here is a list of local storage facilities in DeKalb and Sycamore that you can contact.
Portable On Demand Storage (PODS)
1-866-229-4120
www.pods.com
Dimensions: 8'H x 8"W x 12'L and 8'H x 8"W x 16'L
DeKalb County Self-Storage
Units in DeKalb, Sycamore, Malta, and Cortland
1005 West Lincoln Highway, DeKalb
Phone: 815-756-3606
J & D Mini Storage
2131 East Lincoln Highway, DeKalb
815-756-2706
Blue Van and Storage Inc.
328 Bietz Avenue Suite A, DeKalb
815-756-2781
Mini Storage of Sycamore
2200 Gateway Drive, Sycamore
815-748-3616
Sycamore Self Storage
1420 DeKalb Avenue, Sycamore
815-895-5668
Floit Brothers Self Storage
416 Wyman Street, Sycamore
815-899-6706
Moving? Living off campus? There is now a new service that helps you to connect all your utilities. EZMoves can help get the following resources connected in your new home:
Also available:
To browse through what EZMoves has to offer, click HERE
Craigslist is a database of forums and local classifieds for over 450 cities worldwide – community moderated and free. You can find anything from jobs to furniture on Craigslist. This database can also be very useful for finding apartments and houses.
To begin navigating through Craigslist, please click HERE
(To view searches for apt/houses in the Dekalb/Sycamore area, please click the link above, go to apts/houses, and in the search for box please enter: DeKalb/Sycamore)