I’m trying to book a studio for university, and I’ve found one for £160* per week, on a 50 week contract.
On paper, I can’t quite easily afford this. I get around £5700 from my maintenance loan across the year, and I make roughly £110 per week from my job. So the rent is £8000 for entire year, and I’ll get around £11200 across the contract period, and that’s without factoring in any extra shifts I do over Christmas and after exams that will earn me an extra £130 per shift.
So I can easily afford it, my issue is that the first instalment is already due which I’m able to pay, but the second instalment is due at the end of September which is £2800. The third is at the start of January for

