I did not read the entire tread, but I use a normal residential lot for student housing, and I just pretend it is a dorm. I move my played students in there, and when the capacity allows for it and they have a few free beds, they will advertise for room mates, which will bring their quirkiness as filling up the place with food or repair stuff etc, just like they do in regular dorms. It gets a bit hectic playing all the students (without my attention or they will fail), but it's up to me if I allow 3 or 8 of them. I had no problem playing 8 students with 3 classes each to at least A if not better, but occasionally one of them will fail a bit (which I like).
