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This post has been updated current information for 2022 Yeah, there are some apartments in Athens Ohio that are so small they give those in New York City a run for their money. The benefit is the rent is cheap, but you’re living out of a bedroom practically the size of a lunchbox. This …

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Updated with current information for 2023 When you move out of Ohio University housing and into your own Athens Ohio apartment, there’s a lot more freedom. Nobody’s looking over your shoulder. You aren’t paying an arm and a leg to essentially rent a single bedroom you have to share with a roommate who’s often …

Updated with current information for 2022 College is a blast, but it’s also a time you might feasibly share a bathroom with 3 plus other people (we’re looking at you, four bedroom Athens Ohio rentals!) It helps if they’re not strangers and you even actually like each other. One of the best ways to …

Updated with current information for 2023 To paint or not to paint your Athens rental – the thousand dollar question your entire security deposit may depend on. Painting can be an easy way to freshen up an OU apartment and make it yours. It’s inexpensive and usually reversible, in theory anyway. But there are …

Updated with current information for 2022 You can pick your roommates, but you usually can’t pick the former tenants of your Athens apartment. Unfortunately, sometimes you can smell them long after they are gone. Lingering odors from cigarette smoke, cat litter, smelly dogs can hang in the air like a Nickelback Greatest Hits CD …

The average person generates over 4 pounds of trash every day, or 1.5 tons of garbage per year. Americans combined create over 200 million tons of trash per year. The EPA estimates that 75% of all trash is recyclable, but Americans only manage to recycle 30% of it, according to DoSomething.org. If you aren’t …

Updated with current information for 2023 If you’re committed in a relationship to someone you love, it’s worth hanging onto. Just because you leave your hometown into Ohio University housing doesn’t change the way you feel about each other. It’s tough, but there are ways to stay connected, especially in this age of technology. …

We’re not in grammar school anymore, Toto. College is hard. You’re an adult and suddenly your whole future is on the line. (Only sorta, but yep, it’s time to start adulting.) Don’t worry. You’ve got this. Fortunately, there’s an app for that. Here are 3 apps college students shouldn’t leave Ohio University student rentals …

Updated with current information for 2022 College can be a blast, but it’s also one of the most stressful points in your life.  Pulling all-nighters, struggling past the carpel tunnel of term paper after term paper, passing out in a head full of drool over a chemistry textbook that costs as much as your …