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. 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). Will it be a house or an apartment? Do you want to live with your whole crew, a friend or two, or by yourself? Where’s a good location 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. 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. 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. Want a place all to yourself? We feature many solo housing options. Prefer to live with your friends? We have houses or apartments in Columbus and Athens that can comfortably fit up to five people. 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? 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 also minimize the sort of face-to-face contact with prospective landlords or property managers that increases your risk of Covid-19 infection.

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. Likewise, we offer a nice selection of Columbus apartments – from one-bedroom to five bedrooms – in the off-campus neighborhoods near OSU. 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.

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.

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. That’s 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. 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.

Obviously, the biggest inconvenience of the year-long lease is that situations change and you may want to leave before the year is up. Or you may already know you’re only going to need it for August through April. 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.

Month to Month

The main disadvantage of a month-to-month rental is the landlord can increase the rent anytime. 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.

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.

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 and safety (from COVID) of your current home’s living room.