Apartments -- Main (downtown) campus, CNMCC (apartment complexes, rentals, condos)

[KaraZetterberg153]

I have a student starting school in the Fall at CNMCC. Most of her classes are on the Main Campus, apparently near the downtown area and UNM. Could anyone speak to what that area is like and are there any nice apartments nearby?

[Cactus Hibs]

That area, which includes the University Heights and Silver Hill neighborhood as well as parts of neighboring neighborhoods like Victory Hills, Summit Park, and Nob Hill, is basically full of rentals catering to students at UNM and CNM. There is a lot of variety - many properties are duplexes, multi-room houses, or casitas/mother-in-law apartments, but there are also lots of small multi-unit apartment complexes and newer condos and townhouses, etc. There's a lot of variety in quality and many properties with deferred maintenance, but also plenty of nice to very nice places available, including quite a few well-kept older homes.

[KaraZetterberg153]

Originally Posted by Cactus Hibs

That area, which includes the University Heights and Silver Hill neighborhood as well as parts of neighboring neighborhoods like Victory Hills, Summit Park, and Nob Hill, is basically full of rentals catering to students at UNM and CNM. There is a lot of variety - many properties are duplexes, multi-room houses, or casitas/mother-in-law apartments, but there are also lots of small multi-unit apartment complexes and newer condos and townhouses, etc. There's a lot of variety in quality and many properties with deferred maintenance, but also plenty of nice to very nice places available, including quite a few well-kept older homes.

Thank you. How about flooding? Crime?

[Cactus Hibs]

Originally Posted by KaraZetterberg153

Thank you. How about flooding? Crime?

No issues with flooding, except during major summer downpours when any part of town could get enough rain to flood. Crime varies - some parts of the neighborhood (like the areas between Central Avenue and the one-way streets at Lead and Coal) have issues with drug users and and a large indigent population, and probably a higher occurrence of property crime, etc. as a result, but other nearby areas won't have nearly the same issues.

[KaraZetterberg153]

Thank you again. Is this even a good school? I'm surprised the parents chose this one. I guess it's disappointing because I wanted her to major in music and instead she wants to be a paralegal. And I think she could have gotten an orchestra scholarship.

[aries63]

Originally Posted by KaraZetterberg153

Thank you again. Is this even a good school? I'm surprised the parents chose this one. I guess it's disappointing because I wanted her to major in music and instead she wants to be a paralegal. And I think she could have gotten an orchestra scholarship.

Isn't this really something for her and her parents to decide, about what she studies, where, and housing issues? Did they ask you to find housing for her?

I think it's an excellent idea for any young musician to have an unrelated profession to fall back on in case music turns out not to be a viable career with a steady income-- which it usually is not.

[KaraZetterberg153]

Originally Posted by aries63

Isn't this really something for her and her parents to decide, about what she studies, where, and housing issues? Did they ask you to find housing for her?

I think it's an excellent idea for any young musician to have an unrelated profession to fall back on in case music turns out not to be a viable career with a steady income-- which it usually is not.

Yes, but they asked for my help. No English and from Nepal.

You are right about the second issue.

[Cactus Hibs]

Originally Posted by KaraZetterberg153

Is this even a good school?

Like any community college, CNM is what an individual student makes of it. But it's a very good community college. Lots of programs and decent faculty, with a lot of assistance with transfers to UNM or other 4-year colleges. Some programs are more highly regarded than their UNM equivalents.