Move out day brings headaches for UT students in West Campus

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Apartment leases are coming to an end for some students in West Campus and that means students will have to find somewhere else to move.

“I have a lot of boxes and bags mostly,” said Tyler Hom, a student at the University of Texas.

Hom and his roommate Youssef Bakr spent Saturday packing up boxes and getting things ready to move into another apartment.

“The dumpsters are kind of a mess,” Bakr said. “If you walk in any alley way in West Campus you will see trash everywhere.”

While he’s no fan of looking at all the trash build up in the alleys, these are the least of Bakr’s worries. He said he will be without a place to stay for a few weeks.

“I have a couple of weeks where I can’t really go anywhere other than home, which is in Dallas,” said Bakr.

Bakr did not re-sign a lease at his apartment complex and will soon move to another location in West Campus, but he cant move in until mid-August.

Many students KXAN spoke with tell us from the end of July until mid August they are essentially homeless and have to rent a hotel or stay with a friend.

One apartment complex employee told us the first few weeks of August are used to clean the apartments and make repairs for the next tenants.

“The primary descriptor that comes to mind is quite annoying,” Bakr said. “If I was going straight to the other place I would just do this moving thing once.”

Some students have to rent storage units, but Bakr said he found a friend that will help him.

“So, he is graciously allowing me to store all my stuff in his place where he can store it for a little while. Then I will be back on the 16th,” Bakr said.

Hom will have to wait for his new apartment to open as well.

“I’m an out-of-state student,” Hom said. “A lot of out-of-state students, I don’t know what they are doing right now. For me in particular, I have a grandmother who lives nearby and she has graciously allowed me to keep all my stuff there.”

While frustrated, students said it’s all part of the process. But they hope things will change in the future.

“Everybody who I have talked to in West Campus pretty much has the same situation going on,” Bakr said.

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