It's pretty common in my experience for landlord in areas with many students to require renewing for a full year, because the rental demand is so spiky. (In Urb

It's pretty common in my experience for landlord in areas with many students to require renewing for a full year, because the rental demand is so spiky. (In Urbana IL, a college town, everything ended 8/1 give or take with absolutely no hope of a part year renewal, here in Cambridge 9/1 is quite common even though there are a good number of working professionals here too. )