Find Great Off-Campus Rentals to Enrich Your College Experience
This is the moment you’ve been waiting for. It’s time to move out of the dorm and leave the dining hall behind for good. Ohio University on-campus housing was OK, if only from the novelty of the experience. Living away from home with a bunch of other young adults is an adventure no matter that you’re living in a 12-by-12 cell with another person. Not to mention the shared communal spaces, like the restrooms and showers—leaving that behind has never felt so good. Now you can put that experience behind you, take a big step forward, and take advantage of the chance to express yourself through your choice of rental housing in Athens or Columbus (both offered by Krause Rental Properties). Rentals perfect for college students tend to have a lot of character, depending on where you’re going to college at. Most college towns are old and have some history to them, meaning the buildings surrounding them are likely also older and have had tons of history as well over the course of their existence. You might want a student rental home with cool architecture, or a three-bedroom home for rent with a huge backyard for throwing the best parties around. Either way, it’s your turn to choose where you live.
Will it be a house or an apartment? Do you want to live with your whole crew, a friend or two, or by yourself? A big house with four bedrooms that’s great for college students would be great for your group of friends and can get you some easy, built-in social interaction, while an apartment for one close by to campus can offer up some privacy.
Where’s a good location for you? We’ve got tons of beautiful and affordable student rentals all over Athens. Name any neighborhood, and we can show you a handful of properties we have in the area, so you’re truly able to take your time to think about which property could be the right one for you. Take some time to browse our properties and see what’s available throughout Athens and around the Ohio University campus, or in the neighborhoods that border the Ohio State campus in Columbus. You can even use our website to filter out all of those rental units with multiple bedrooms if you’re planning on living by yourself or vice versa. Once you’ve narrowed down your search by using Krause Rentals’ full-service website, you can call us to view any selected Athens or Columbus rental properties, and do it in person.
Finding Rentals Close to OU or OSU Made Simple
Getting out of the dorms is great. Staying out of a student ghetto is even better. Like any area, there are plenty of rental properties for Ohio University students that you want to outright avoid—the pictures might look nice online, but once you see them in person, it’s a different story. Thankfully with us, what you see is what you get. Krause Rental Properties features quality rental options for every need and lifestyle, for both students and non-students. Research them all on one website, with detailed floor plans, extensive photographs, and up-to-date listings. Everything you need to make an informed decision about your hopeful two-bedroom house with an attached, spacious backyard for the next school year is available to you, and scheduling an appointment to view a property is even easier once you’ve narrowed down your list.
Want a place all to yourself? We feature many solo housing options. Whether that’s an apartment with a convenient location in Uptown or an affordable one-bedroom off-campus home for rent in one of Athens’ many diverse neighborhoods, we’ve got you covered. Prefer to live with your friends? We have houses or apartments in Columbus and Athens that can comfortably fit up to five people. Or spacious college rentals with four bedrooms. Or three-bedroom homes in some of the best locations in Athens. You get the idea. Don’t waste your time with newspaper and online listings or posted rental signs. We make it easy to view lots of options with a few clicks of your computer mouse. Why make finding a great place so difficult? Our website offers full functionality to help you pick out your dream rental home as quickly as possible with tons of nifty features like filtering search options by the number of bedrooms a space has or efven what your rent budget is. We’ll help you find a great rental in less time than it takes to update your Facebook status. And by using our full-service website to find the best rental houses or apartments in Athens or apartments to rent in Columbus, you’ll be able to do most of the legwork from the comfort of your current home right on the couch. It really doesn’t get much easier than that.
Goodbye Dorms and Dining Hall Food; Hello Sweet Rental House with a Shaded Porch
It doesn’t matter where you think you fit in your off-campus neighborhood; we’ve got a place for you. We offer a variety of rental properties in Athens with many very close to uptown and the Ohio University campus. If you’re someone who values their peace and quiet and needs some a lack of noise to. Be able to effectively study and concentrate, we’ve got plenty of cheap-on-rent homes perfect for college students in the residential neighborhoods of Athens, away from the noise and nightlife of Uptown. Alternatively, if you’re not affected by a little extra noise and want to be close to everything in a central location, securing one of the many apartments around Uptown in the best location possible might be a great fit for you.
Likewise, we offer a nice selection of Columbus apartments – from one-bedroom to five bedrooms – in the off-campus neighborhoods near OSU. Our conveniently-located apartments close to downtown Columbus offer all sorts of amenities, like being in a central location to nearly anything. Whether you need to run over to campus or meet up with some friends for a night out in the Short North Arts District, you can do it with ease. They’re also located near most major freeway entrances so you can get wherever you need to be in Columbus and its surrounding suburbs in under 20 minutes. Krause Rental Properties is happy to help simplify your OSU or OU off-campus housing search. In Athens, we have rentals in all the most desirable locations and offer everything from apartments to houses and even condos. Take a minute to boot up your laptop, tablet or smartphone and browse through our properties. When you narrow down your options, based on location, size and type of house, and find likely rental housing Athens or Columbus, call our office and make arrangements to view the properties in person. We promise that you’ll be happy with what you see when you schedule an appointment to view one of our many rental homes for students that are excellently maintained.
How Long Should the Lease for My Student Rental Last?
One of the major decisions you’ll need to make when seeking a house or apartment for rent in Columbus or Athens is the length of your lease. Students usually decide among a one-year, three-month, six-month, nine-month, or month-to-month lease. Less than one-year leases are basically just more expensive versions of the one-year lease. Each of these arrangements has pros and cons, and they all depend on how long you’re planning to live in the Athens area while you attend school.
In general, you can figure on rent being cheaper the longer you agree to rent a house or apartment. Conversely, a short-term lease probably will cost you more.
Signing a lease obligates you to fulfill the terms. You could face some serious consequences – both legal and financial – if you abandon a lease. You may have to find someone to sublet if you have to leave your rental before the lease ends. The terms of the lease may make you partially responsible for whoever takes over the apartment or house, so it’s important to find someone reputable that you can trust if you’re looking to sublet your current college rental apartment. Completely abandoning or being responsible for someone else’s actions and behaviors in a space with your name on the lease is a situation to avoid if you can help it.
One-Year Lease
This is usually the cheapest – and easiest – lease agreement you will find for a rental in Columbus or Athens. You’ll be protected against rent increases for the term of this lease. That’s automatically a win if you’re looking to keep an off-campus apartment that doesn’t cost too much to rent. Your price is locked in for the duration of the year you’re there and you can budget easier without any unexpected surprises. You should be certain the rate is set before you sign the lease. Sometimes you can find a landlord who’ll negotiate on terms if you’re willing to sign on for a year, as it’s much easier for them to not have to go through the process of finding a new tenant for a space at a potentially slow time for the rental market.
Obviously, the biggest inconvenience of the year-long lease is that situations change and you may want to leave before the year is up. For example, if that rental home in the perfect location next to campus doesn’t live up to your standards, the thought of being in it for a year might be enough to drive you crazy. Or you may already know you’re only going to need it for August through April if you’re not sticking around for the summer. Discuss with the landlord what obligations you’ll have if you have to break the lease, or whether a nine-month lease is available. It should be spelled out in the rental agreement. Nine month leases are great for most students, but year-round leases are perfect if you’re staying put in Athens for the summer or taking a couple of classes to give yourself an extra leg up on college.
Month to Month
The main disadvantage of a month-to-month rental is the landlord can increase the rent anytime. Which isn’t great if you found and signed for one of the most affordable college apartments at Ohio University one month, and suddenly the next month of the lease, the price is jacked up and you have to recalculate your whole budget. On the other hand, you have the flexibility of moving whenever you want, if things don’t work out for one reason or another, or your own circumstances change. Some people love the freedom of being able to leave a lease at almost any given time, but others are going to be much more inclined towards the predictability a year-to-year lease offers.
A month-to-month arrangement is almost always more expensive for the renter, and such rentals can be harder to find. However, this type of rental does allow you to try out a place and see if you like it. Sometimes, you can then enter into a longer lease with the landlord. Keep in mind, though, that not many people enjoying moving a lot, and you probably aren’t one of them who does. However, if you like exploring new options and having a sampling of some of the best spots to rent around the city of Athens, and you don’t mind playing a wacky combination of Tetris and Frogger every time you end up packing and moving house, a month-to-month lease has its perks.
Krause Rental Properties can help you and your Ohio University or Ohio State housemates find the right Athens or Columbus housing within your budget. And you can do most of the work from the comfort of your current home’s living room.