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Updated with current information for 2023 Roommates can make or break your college experience. They can be all the difference between college being one of the best times of your life, or something you dread. In fact, they can even be the critical factor as to whether or not you make the honor roll …

Getting your first apartment in Athens Ohio is awesome. You’re finally on your own like a real adult. You don’t live with your parents anymore, which means you don’t live with your mother. All the cleaning’s on you. Want to invite over a romantic interest without shame? Learn to clean. Here are eight cleaning …

Updated with current information for 2022 As part of the lease of your student rental in Athens Ohio, your landlord or property manager is responsible for most repairs. However, some less reputable landlords can be pretty slow at getting to repairs, especially if they aren’t emergencies. Some issues you want solved right away. (A …

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 …