To be eligible, the husband, wife, or single parent renting the apartment must be a full-time student during the academic year. For married couple apartments, you do not need to be married to apply for housing; you must be legally married before you occupy the apartment. 

For family apartments, a parent must have legal custody of one or more children. Your spouse and/or children must reside with you at all times for you to remain eligible for family housing and only members of your immediate family (husband, wife, dependent children under 18 years) may live in the family housing apartment.

Credit requirements

You must carry no less than 12 (undergraduate students) and 9 (graduate students) credit hours each semester during the academic year. During the summer, you must carry 6 credit hours over the summer OR be pre-registered for the upcoming fall semester.

If you withdraw from the university

Once you are no longer registered, you must vacate your family apartment within 48 hours of withdrawal. Call your Family Residence Hall Director (RHD) or Resident Assistant (RA) to make checkout arrangements.

Rent payments

• Rates for 2012-2013 rent is $787 - $870 per month based on floor plan. For your convenience, rent is billed directly to your student LOUIE account at the beginning of each semester.

All utilities are included in rent, which include:

• electricity
• gas
• water
• sewer
• trash
• cable TV
• high-speed wired and wireless internet
• local phone service

South Family is managed by a professional Residence Hall Director (RHD) responsible for overall complex administration, maintenance, activities, programming, student assistance, and community standards.

The RHD supervises a group of Resident Assistants (RAs), paraprofessional student staff trained to advise and assist students, plan activities, provide resources facilitators, and maintain community standards..

For maintenance concerns, call F-IXED (3-4933) from any on-campus telephone and within 30 minutes someone will come to review and fix the problem. Should you experience an emergency maintenance situation, please contact the front desk or RA on call so that proper maintenance staff can be notified immediately. Emergency maintenance situations include:  

• overflowing toilet
• burst steam pipe
• water leak
• sparking or inconsistent electricity