"It's an amenity like a fireplace or an extra bathroom that you add to the basic apartment.
Prices can be ridiculously cheap: seven nights in a basic apartment in San Antonio, Ibiza, departing on 26 June costs £249pp, including flights.
With that in mind, in addition to basic apartment searches, the Zumper platform has been trying to address all of that.
You can find everything from the basic apartment refrigerator made by Frigidaire for $399, to midrange dishwashers, cooktops, stoves and refrigerators made by General Electric, KitchenAid, Jenn-Air, Whirlpool, Maytag and, of course, Kenmore.
The family resided in apartment Q, a "small, basic, but habitable" apartment.
"We're still dealing with the most basic of issues, apartments and businesses being closed, workers being laid off, people moving out," she said.
None of the birdhouses have mirrored ceilings or waterbeds, but these are the basic specifications: studio apartments at least six inches long, high and wide.
And in many cases these are not basic student-level apartments but entire houses, high-end condos, even vacation properties for the whole family to share after Junior graduates.
His goal, when he moved in three years ago, was to make the apartment basic and low-maintenance so he could turn the key and leave without fuss.
At the end of January, 35 condominiums were listed for sale on the Multiple Listing Service, ranging from a basic one-bedroom apartment built in 1972 on Deanna Drive priced at $112,000 up to $315,000 for a 2,600-square-foot 2,600-square-foot 2,600-square-foot town house, built in 1996, with a full basement and a one-car garage on Flemming Drive.
