Kansas University students moving from dorms to apartments will have a one-stop source of information this fall.

KU’s Student Senate is opening an Off-Campus Living Resource Center, which will provide information about renting apartments in Lawrence.

“There are a significant number of people who don’t know much about living off-campus,” said Kyle Browning, student body vice president and chairman of the committee organizing the center. “We don’t want to be the classifieds or the phone book. We want to provide a lot more.”

The center, to be in the Kansas Union, will provide apartment listings, information on the state’s landlord-tenant law and instructions for setting up utilities.

It will include a rental registration system, where students can post comments and concerns about properties and landlords. The system also will include information about deposits and pets.

The center also will have a bulletin board for students wanting to sublease their apartments.

About 69 percent of KU’s students live off-campus and not in fraternities or sororities.

Student Senate has approved $17,000 in startup and first-year operating costs. It is in the process of hiring a part-time director to staff the center.

Browning said the director will work closely with Legal Services for Students on landlord-tenant issues and with the city’s rental housing inspectors.

“All of the information we’re providing is available elsewhere,” Browning said. “We’re just putting it all in one place.”