Author Archives: Callie Kollenbroich

About Callie Kollenbroich

Callie Kollenbroich has been the Operations Coordinator and Content Writer/Editor at Rent College Pads since 2015. When she's not working, you can find her at home, eating peanut butter out of the jar and bingeing an unhealthy amount of Forensic Files. She's not as lame as she sounds.

Utah State Off-Housing: 10 Top Rated Logan Landlords

USU Football Stadium

Growing up in life you go through a lot of “firsts.” At the age of five, you have your first day of school. Fast forward to when you get your first job. From that job you have enough money get your first car. You go on your first date where you have your first kiss. Your first day of college has come and gone and you’re ready to sign a lease on your first house. Let Rent College Pads make your housing decision a little easier.

We sat down and searched through the Logan area off-campus housing options for students attending the Utah State University. After picking through hundreds of reviews, we compiled a list of the top landlords in Logan to help you out!

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Best Apartments for Georgia Southern Students
Georgia Southern University Campus

Georgia Southern University Campus

You’re back in school for another year, but this time there are no parents nagging you to wake-up or tell you that you can’t leave the house until you finish your homework. It’s college and you call the shots, but with freedom comes responsibility. You’re now responsible for deciding what frat or sorority to rush, what filter to use for your Insta selfie, and how you’ll ever talk to that cute girl in your English class. Let’s not forget one of the biggest decision you’ll face all year, deciding where you’re going to live off-campus. Luckily for you, Rent College Pads has the answer.

 

To help you out, we did some digging to find the best off-campus housing options available to students in Statesboro. We searched tons of housing options around campus and weeded through hundreds of reviews, leaving you with the best of the best off-campus housing Statesboro has to offer.

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Best Apartments for Northern Colorado University Students

UNCO Campus

Growing up you probably couldn’t wait to be an adult, no rules, or anyone telling you what to do. Well, you finished high-school and it’s finally time you get that freedom you’ve waited your entire life for. Like most college students do, you probably spent your first year living in the dorms and you actually didn’t get as much “freedom” as you thought.

Sharing a room with a messy, loud snoring, roommate who always thought she could bring her boyfriend over into your shared closet-sized room probably wasn’t what you had in mind. Or how about not being able to play your music loudly or the big bad RA would pay a visit to your dorm room. Well, you paid your dues and now it’s finally time to sign a lease on your first place where you are in-charge. With so many options and it being your first time, you’re going to want help to find that perfect place you’ve always dreamt of. Luckily for you, Rent College Pads has got you covered!

Here at Rent College Pads, we sat down and searched through all of the Greeley off-campus housing options for students attending the University of Northern Colorado. After reading hundreds of reviews, we came up with a list of the top landlords in the Greeley area making your decision on where to live a little easier.

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Best Apartments for Students Near Western Michigan University
Taken on Western Michigan University's campus in Kalamazoo, MI

Taken on Western Michigan University’s campus in Kalamazoo, MI (Flickr)

There are few things in life as stressful as the search for off-campus housing. Anyone who’s attempted it before knows that getting a group together, synching up your schedules and finding the perfect place to live can seem like an impossible feat.

For this reason, we took some of the work out of the process. We searched through hundreds of reviews on Google and selected the top ten places to rent at WMU.

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5 Reasons To Live Off-Campus: IUP
IUP Arch

IUP Arch Google

The decision to move off campus is a big deal for students. In college, you should have at least one year to experience living in a dorm. If anything, at least you’ll have crazy stories from your dorm experience. But after that, many will agree that moving to IUP off-campus housing  is way better than living in the dorms for these reasons: Continue reading

10 Top Rated Boulder Landlords: CU-Boulder Off-Campus Housing
CU-Boulder Campus

CU-Boulder Campus (Flickr)

If you’re like most college students, there’s a good chance you spent your first year or two on campus sleeping on a lofted dorm room bed. Anyone who has ever spent time in a dorm knows that if you like your personal space (and the freedom to do as you please), the dorms can be a real buzz-kill. Tired of being told you can’t play music past 10 p.m.? Rent College Pads has a solution for that—corral your friends, find your perfect CU-Boulder off campus housing pad and revel in your newfound freedom.

To help you jumpstart the process, we took a look at the best off-campus housing options available for students at the University of Colorado-Boulder. We combed through hundreds of reviews and cherry-picked the top 10 places to live at CU-Boulder near campus.

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Best Apartments for Students Near USC
Wade Hampton Statue--Columbia (SC) 2012 (Flickr)

Wade Hampton Statue–Columbia (SC) 2012 (Flickr)

The life of a college student is full of freedom and the fun that follows. The joys of heading off to the university of your choosing is great, but do you know what’s really great? When you head off of campus and into your own house. You’ve all seen your friends post Instagram pictures of signing their first lease, and now it’s time to join them.

Here at Rent College Pads, we have decided to run through some of the best housing options available for the lucky students who attend the University of South Carolina in Columba, SC. We used Google Maps review system to determine this list of ten. For a full list of available apartments near USC view our map page.

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10 Top Rated Landlords
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Clemson University Band – United States (Flickr)

The average college student has a lot of tough choices to make: Deciding which speech section they want to take, selecting which fraternity/sorority they want to pledge too, wondering what they’re going to wear (or when to show up for that matter) to the big football game and even choosing which filter they should put on that 2 a.m. Snapchat that’s headed back home towards their ex. All these choices might be important to the college lifestyle but none of them can make or break your experience like choosing a spot to live.

To help make that choice a little easier, we’ve decided to run through a list of real estate agencies and rental properties around the Clemson campus on Google maps and have selected the top 10 based on their star rankings and pulled out a few choice reviews for your reading pleasure. Oh, and by the way, choose the dog filter. Continue reading

Iowa Off-Campus Housing: 10 Top Rated Iowa City Landlords
Many logos. Many hats. (Flickr)

Many logos. Many hats. (Flickr)

A college student finding off-campus housing is a big deal. Finding an an apartment or house in a city that’s consistently rated as one of the best college towns in America? Well, that’s an even bigger deal. For students looking to move off campus with their friends for the first time, or returning students looking for that next new spot to create memories, Rent College Pads has you covered.

We’ve compiled a list of rental services in the Iowa City area, and sorted them using their reviews on Google to help make your decision a little easier. Here are the landlords you might want to consider when you’re looking for a Iowa City apartment near Iowa: Continue reading

Four Things IUP Seniors Remember That Freshmen Wouldn’t Understand
The Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Indiana University of Pennsylvania. (Flickr)

It’s October at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. The anxiety of midterms and an impending faculty strike linger in the air like the autumn leaves. For those of us who first arrived on campus in the fall of 2013, this is likely the last time we’ll see the leaves in the Oak Grove change from green to shades of yellow and orange as an undergrad. The Class of 2017 still has plenty of time to make their senior year memorable, but for now, let’s look back on some of the things we Seniors remember that our fellow Freshmen will never fully understand.

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