Off-Campus Student Services doesn’t recommend basing housing decisions entirely on the results of the Landlord Library created by USG.”It’s just information to assist students in making wise decisions about where to live off-campus,” said Don Mclellan, acting director of Off-Campus Student Services.Copies of the Landlord Library are available at Off-Campus Student Services, but its accuracy should be questioned, Mclellan said. Sometimes only a small number of the landlord’s total units are included in the results.”Anytime you conduct a study, its hard to generalize the results if you have not included every one of their units as a part of the study,” Mclellan said. “It’s difficult to access customers of a property owner unless you include a random sampling of the property owners’ tenants.”Sometimes only a few units were able to be surveyed when the landlord owned many properties.”You may only get two of 1,000 units,” he said. “That two won’t be able to generalize the total results of that property owners.”Students need to check out the properties for themselves, Mclellan said.Off-Campus Student Services suggests that prospective renters talk to current tenants, he said. Students can also check the credit history of the landlord and check for outstanding housing code violations.”Check out the place thoroughly,” Mclellan said.Off-Campus Student Services can help renters when problems arise if the landlord is registered with them, he said. The first step is to put complaints in writing.”Then, I will call the property owner to see if we can work something out if there is a legitimate problem that can be solved,” Mclellan said.Eric Washart, a junior majoring in criminal justice, has complaints about his landlord, but he was never contacted by USG about the Landlord Library. He has filed requests for repairs and cleaning with his landlord that have never been done.”They’ve just been sitting on it, and this is an expensive place,” Washart said.His roommate, Jonathan Klear, a junior majoring in psychology, agrees.”Some things they’re good with but the big demands take a long time, or they don’t get to them at all,” he said.Neither student had heard of the Landlord Library.Bruce Sellers, a graduate student in psychology, had never heard of the Landlord Library either. His landlord’s rating might have improved if USG had contacted him.”He’s very fair about everything,” Sellers said.He allows rent to be late as long as it is paid eventually, he said.Su Ting Lai, a senior majoring in communications, would like to see the Landlord Library. He said he would use it to help decide where to rent from in the future.Laura Gall, a senior majoring in agricultural education, has seen the Landlord Library.The total number of people surveyed should be used instead of percents, she said. The standard deviation and mean are pointless too, she said.”I don’t care anything about that,” Gall said.