Fall 2009 Buy-Outs

Details About Vacancy Buy-Outs:

For the Fall 2009 Semester RLH plans on offering returning students with vacancies the opportunity to secure those spaces against being reassigned to a new roommate. Students in double rooms with confirmed or expected vacancies resulting from students studying abroad or taking a leave of absence will have the opportunity to buy-out the vacancy in their rooms for $1200. Buy-outs are not possible during the Housing Lottery Process, and will only be offered during the summer if space allows. Students in Triple Rooms may buyout vacancies as well, and will split the total cost of the buy-outs among remaining roommates. For buy-out pricing see the Room Rates site.

Buy-outs are only available during specific windows of opportunity. Returning students who expect they will have a vacancy for the Fall Semester will have until July 1, 2009 to buy-out the vacancy. After this date all vacancies will be used for the housing waitlist and transfer housing process. Should a vacancy remain after these processes, students will again have the opportunity to request a buy-out by September 11, 2009 to Request a vacancy buy-out. After this time no buy-outs will be offered for existing vacancies and these vacancies will be offered for relocation requests and administrative assignments. Students who acquire a vacancy in their room during the semester because a roommate moves out or withdraws from Clark will have 5 days from their roommate's move out date to buy-out the space. After this period ends these vacancies will also be offered for relocation requests and administrative assignments. All partial semester buy-out costs are pro-rated for the number of days the room is bought out.

Download a Vacancy Buy-Out Request Form PDF Version

* Please note that in an emergency it could be possible that RLH would have to assign a student to a buy-out room. If this were to happen the student would be refunded the full buy-out cost for the entire semester. We do not expect this will happen.