Because of RateMyStudentRental, I'd love to see data that includes college student grade-point averages, retention/graduation rates, and quality of off-campus housing/landlord. My hunch is that the higher quality the housing, the better grades and higher retention/graduation rates the students have, but there is as of yet no dataset which includes the housing-quality metric.
Actually I can already tell you from my own dataset that quality of housing has very little correlation with rent amount off-campus. An insane percentage of great landlords undercharges significantly and doesn't realize it (or maybe it's the bad landlords overcharging). Yet, because of the nature of student housing and the level of enrollment, all housing still seems to get filled at the same speed, whether under- or overcharging.
I wouldn't be too sure about that. Dotcoms used to think that Aeron chairs would provide similar ROI. Now it's back to basics, excepting the actual computer.
Actually, sitting on bad chairs all day still effects productivity in a negative way. I've bought several Aerons because I sit all day, and I rely on my ass. It should be kept happy.
What killed dot-coms wasn't expensive chairs, it was a lack of sane customer development techniques... oh, and greed.
