"Move mid-month so that you can look for places starting the first of the next month; I moved out on March 14th and moved into an apartment then starting April

"Move mid-month so that you can look for places starting the first of the next month; I moved out on March 14th and moved into an apartment then starting April 1st." I would have guessed all the really good apartments would be spoken for by March 5th. Odd.