For a lot of students, staying in a hotel is a rare luxury that only happens during spring break, on a university outing, or on mommy and daddy’s dollar during a family vacation. Cleaning service, fresh sheets, swimming pool — who wouldn’t want that?

If you were to ask the 160 or so students that were displaced from the Red Mile Village you may receive some negative responses to the labor free life of the hotel.

Why did it happen? To the students who were forced to hold off moving in, the reasons for keeping them out were unclear.

“They told me there weren’t blinds, the internet and cable was not working, and the parking lot was not striped,” said chemistry junior Cody Ortt in a Kernel article Monday.

Imagine living out of a suitcase for the first week of school. While everyone else has settled in and gotten their personal space in order, these students moved in on a weekend after homework had been assigned.

“I know things get delayed, but the one thing that really got me mad is that they kept lying,” said accounting senior Matt Clifford. “They lied to us all the way up to when they told us … I wouldn’t have been as mad if they didn’t lie to me at least three or four times.”

Whatever the reasons were, students were forced out of their homes — before they even got there — and were relocated to the Crowne Plaza and Hilton Hotel. Yes, the apartment complex took responsibility for the situation and put up the students in the hotels, but why was that even an option?

An apartment complex that primarily caters to student tennants has to do a better job of being ready for students to move in, preferably in a timely manner.

Or, at the very least, give them more than just five days to let them out of a lease. Students and parents were asked to hold up to their end of the bargain, why can’t Red Mile Village? They are spending their money for a service.

At the end of the day responsible adults need to do what they are here for. Be more responsible in taking care of students and their housing situation … after all, it is their job and a hotel is not an apartment, no matter how you look at it.