Vincent Patoka, an information guide at the Campus Information and Visitor’s Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the university department that handles off-campus housing, said almost everyone who lives off campus has to sign a yearlong lease.
“Certain apartment complexes will offer an academic-year lease, but the student will have to pay up to several hundred extra dollars a month for nine months, instead of a smaller rent for 12 months,” Patoka said.