Yearly Archives: 2018

So you’re moving into your student rental in Athens Ohio next week. You’ve packed the flower vase (at least you tell your grandma it’s a flower vase. She’s so cute). You’ve talked to your roommates and figured out who’s bringing the coffee table, the mini fridge, and the foosball. You’ve got three weeks worth …

Updated with current information for 2022 Nope, it’s not an urban legend. In fact, the situation is so common it’s even become a best seller on Amazon. Yes, the Naked Roommate can happen to you, right there in the broad daylight of your Athens Ohio apartment. Don’t panic. Like the Yeti and his third …

Summertime in Athens, and even the first month or so of Fall Quarter, can be an absolute scorcher. Between the heat and the humidity, your Athens Ohio apartment rental feels more like a Mafia sauna than a student rental. And turning the AC up past 11 can be pretty rough on your budget, especially …

Updated with current information for 2022 So, you’re spending your summer in Athens Ohio. Does that mean your summer vacation is dead? Hardly. Athens might not be Europe, but it’s hardly Ashtabula either. There are plenty of summer kicks you can get within an easy drive of your student rental in Athens Ohio. Backpacking …

Updated with current information for 2022 So, it’s summertime. You’re enrolled at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, but you don’t have any housing yet. Is it time to panic? While it’s not the end of the world, you should move with some sense of urgency. But you don’t need to lower your standards and …

Towards May, summer in Athens is pretty much on. The weather can get hot. Blame Al Gore. Blame China. Either way, Global Warming is very real when it’s 90+ degrees, sweat sticks to you like glue, and you feel like you can barely breathe much less move. At the same time, economics towards the …

So it’s the end of Spring Semester and your housing plans for next year suddenly collapse like a Siberian sinkhole. Steve said you could live with him and his friends in their three bedroom house, but then you slept with his girl, or maybe she slept with you but does it really make a …

As the spring semester winds to a close, you’re frantically writing term papers, cramming for finals, and trying to fit in one last shuffle with your friends. When that last final is turned in and you’ve crawled out of that Fish Bowl crater of a hangover, you’re probably flying out of Athens like a …

Dreading moving back home this summer? We can’t blame you. When you’ve tasted the freedom of independent living in college, it’s hard to go back to your childhood bedroom in the same boring house your parents live in. You’ve grown accustomed to walking around that rental home with two spacious bedrooms, doing just about …

Life’s full of surprises. Sometimes it’s a box of chocolates; sometimes it’s like a box of dried dog turds wrapped in a box and left on your doorstep. Just as graduation approaches, you’re flunking Hindu philosophy and might need to be reincarnated into taking it again this summer if you ever hope for a …