Sorry to chime in so late, but I started out the same way in college. I started a home based dye sublimation print shop/vinyl cutting shop and have grown to a full-on sign shop with a Roland SP-300V and a Mimaki JV33-160 along with a 24" Graphtec cutter, 61" laminator and multiple dye sub printers.
I hope you don't live on a floor with multiple staircases cause carrying a 350 to 500 pound printer is not an easy task, even with four grown men. Don't forget, unless you have a straight through access to the room where your printer will be going, you may find that getting the printer in your apartment is going to be your biggest issue.
Most apartments that I have lived in over the years have a small entryway where you have to make a quick turn to access the other rooms of the apartment and not being able to tilt the printer up to make a sharp turn creates an issue.
I hope you don't live on a floor with multiple staircases cause carrying a 350 to 500 pound printer is not an easy task, even with four grown men. Don't forget, unless you have a straight through access to the room where your printer will be going, you may find that getting the printer in your apartment is going to be your biggest issue.
Most apartments that I have lived in over the years have a small entryway where you have to make a quick turn to access the other rooms of the apartment and not being able to tilt the printer up to make a sharp turn creates an issue.