If you are going to live in Athens, Ohio, you might as well live somewhere worth talking about. Krause Rental Properties has some of the coolest rentals in the city, and we mean that literally. Our luxury apartments in Athens, Ohio, bundle amenities, character, and location into something you are not going to find scrolling through a generic apartment listing site. Not to mention the best apartments in Athens, Ohio, for students who want to wake up steps from Court Street, steps from campus, and steps from everything that makes this town legendary.
Athens is one of the most interesting college towns in America. The rental you choose here is not just a place to sleep, it is the backdrop for the stories you will still be telling a decade from now. So why settle for a forgettable box when the cool rentals in our portfolio have actual personality, actual history, and actual character baked into every square foot?
Browse our listings. Find the place that fits how you actually want to live here. Then get your freak on.
Cool Rentals for Every Kind of Athens Life
No two people come to Athens for exactly the same thing, and no two rentals in our portfolio are exactly the same either. That is the point. Athens is not a cookie-cutter town. The students who want to be right in the thick of it on the west side near campus need a different place than the grad students who want quiet and space on the east side near the hills. The five friends splitting a big house for Halloween need something different than the young professional who just took a job at Ohio University and wants a one-bedroom apartment in Athens with character within walking distance of uptown.
We have all of it. Spacious five-bedroom apartments perfect for a group of friends who want to throw the kind of Halloween party that Court Street will hear from two blocks away. Quiet one and two-bedroom apartments tucked into residential neighborhoods where the hills are close, and the noise is not.
Live Near the Best Outdoors in Southeast Ohio
The hills surrounding Athens are not decoration. They are steep, wooded, and genuinely beautiful, and the trail networks here have grown into something serious over the past decade. Radar Hill and Bong Hill are local favorites for sunset picnics and stargazing, the kind of thing that is easy to do on a Tuesday evening when your cool Athens, Ohio rental is close enough to reach the trailhead on foot. Strouds Run State Park has swimming, kayaking, SUP boarding, hiking, and mountain biking all within a short drive from campus. The Bailey’s Trail System just outside of town has been called one of the best new mountain biking destinations in the Midwest and keeps expanding every year.
The Arts, the Music, and the Culture That Make Athens Athens
The Athena Cinema at 20 South Court Street has been showing arthouse, independent, and international films since 1915. Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium on campus brings in national touring acts year-round. The Dairy Barn Arts Center, saved from demolition with nine days to spare by a group of residents who refused to let it go, hosts a year-round calendar of exhibitions, workshops, and community events that draw visitors from across the country. Fur Peace Ranch, the guitar school run by Jorma Kaukonen of Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna fame, is just outside of town. The man is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and he chose to live near Athens.
None of this matters as much if you are living somewhere forgettable. Getting a rental near campus and uptown puts you within walking distance of the Athena, the music venues, and the cultural institutions that make Athens genuinely different from every other college town in Ohio. Our luxury apartments in Athens, Ohio, give you the kind of home base that makes it easy to actually show up for all of it, because when you are not fighting a bad landlord over a broken furnace or a security deposit that disappeared into thin air, you have time and energy to actually live here.
Finding the Right Place Without the Landlord Horror Stories
The Athens rental market is competitive and fast-moving. The best places get claimed months before the school year starts. Knowing who to rent from matters just as much as knowing what neighborhood you want.
At Krause Rental Properties, our listings are accurate, our photos are honest, and our properties are maintained. We have spent years building a portfolio of luxury apartments in Athens, Ohio, that reflects the full range of what this city has to offer. Our interactive map lets you see exactly where each property sits in relation to campus, uptown, the bike path, and your favorite spots in the city. Browse our full listings online and find the place that fits the Athens experience you came here to have.
Because in a town this good, with rentals this interesting, there is really no excuse to live somewhere boring.