Ask any Lehigh upperclassman to name the top student street in South Bethlehem and Carlton Avenue comes up almost every time. 508 Carlton Ave sits right in the middle of that reputation, with four bedrooms and two full bathrooms in a house built for a standard group of roommates.
Two bathrooms for four people is the detail that makes a house like this livable day to day. Mornings don't turn into a queue, and the small frictions that build up in a one-bathroom house just aren't part of the equation here. Combined with a real living room and a kitchen sized for actual cooking, the layout holds up to daily use better than a lot of the older stock nearby.
At 1,600 square feet, the house gives four roommates enough separation that nobody is living on top of each other, while still being compact enough that the whole group ends up in the same room most evenings without planning it.
The street itself is what people mean when they talk about the Carlton Avenue experience: a short, flat walk to Lehigh's academic buildings and library, a dense cluster of other student houses, and the kind of built-in social scene that students specifically go looking for when they decide to move off campus.
Carlton Avenue addresses are consistently the first to go each leasing cycle. Most groups who want this street sign in October or November of the prior year, which means by spring the choices on Carlton specifically have usually narrowed down to whatever is left.
508 Carlton Ave is currently leased through the 2027/2028 academic year. If Carlton Avenue is the street you want, text 484-206-5522 and we'll let you know about openings here or elsewhere on the block.
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508 Carlton Ave is leased for 2027/2028. Text us about future availability or similar houses nearby.
