Of course it doesn't make sense. One of the people who's moving into the apartment (the one with the housemates, not the one I'm currently moving into) this summer is making a 7 hour car trip up to Hanover to see the apartment. Housing just gave him the contact info of one of the housemates so he could make arrangements when to see it.
Normally, I would say it's sensible to look at an apartment before signing the lease but in this case, I'll have to ask, why? This is new college housing and if he did any research at all, the rent is much lower than any other apartment in Hanover. Besides, it's practically on campus. I think the housemate he contacted had sent him pictures of the place, but he couldn't be swayed from visiting.
The reason I'm sort of annoyed with this is that this guy finally contacted all of us with the time he wants to visit without first consulting our schedules. The problem is--tomorrow is a weekday and it's a really bad time during the semester. I mean, I can't show him around. Tomorrow is the day that I begin the first experiment of a series of experiments that I've been planning for the past two months. One of my housemates is going crazy preparing for a huge presentation and another one is doing interviews for a Very Important (and Very Famous) Scholarship. As for the med student housemate, she's pretty much never here.
A perverse part of me thinks, let the guy come another day, even if he has to make another 7 hour car trip. But I'm not that mean, even if my experiments are time critical and makes me break out in a sweat just thinking about them. Anyways, if I were him, I wouldn't be so much worried about the state of new housing as what psycho roommates college housing will end up sticking him with.
