r/UofO • u/blaze05life • 27d ago
13th and olive
Hello all, I am a current freshman at UO and I'm looking to get an apartment next year. I would also like to note that I am a out of state student and I am doing this to get residency. Me and a couple other people were planning to rent at 13th and olive. However before I signed the lease yesterday I got cold feet and I decided to look more at the reviews. And they are all pretty negative. I was wondering if anyone that is currently living there tell me how bad it actually is? Please and thank you!
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u/dannotheiceman Biology/Politcal Science '23 27d ago
If you and your roommates occupy the entire apartment with no random roommates you’ll probably enjoy living in the apartment, they aren’t that terrible. However, the buildings themselves suck, they are decently far from campus compared to a lot of other housing options, and have terrible management. They gave us the wrong street address which resulted in about 6 months of packages being delivered to the incorrect mailboxes.
I would attempt to live elsewhere if you can but if not 13th & Olive is adequate housing for college students, especially at its price (assuming rooms are still around 600-700).
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u/blaze05life 27d ago
Ahh ok I see, I will admit that the price was a eye catcher at first but for me management and location plays a bigger role. Thank you very much for your response!
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u/TheLastEggplant 27d ago
At 13th and Olive, like many of the local apartment complexes, you rent an individual bedroom and have a separate lease from your friends. This means if you and two friends rent there, you can get placed in a four bedroom apartment, and they can rent the final room to a stranger. Because 13th and Olive has a bad reputation, they tend to rent to a lot of community members and I’ve heard that social workers place folks coming out of jail there as well, because there’s often empty rooms and it’s right by the bus station. There have been a few incidents of UO students having really traumatic experiences with non-student roommates there. So if you’re going to rent the whole apartment with your friends, no empty rooms, you should be fine other than it being kinda crappy and management being sort of shit. But don’t let yourself end up with an empty room.
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u/Bubbly-Book0919 27d ago
Do not rent from 13 and Olive. The number of car breaking are high, my daughter didn’t have heat for the majority of the year, it was so dirty when she moved in that the had to go rent a carpet cleaner and borrow my steam vacuum. Getting help is non existent and the company has changed ownership 2 or 3 times recently. She just moved out this summer when her lease expired. She left and didn’t look back.
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u/blaze05life 27d ago
Thanks for the response. All the reviews I've seen had mentioned something about car break-ins and the lack of clean floor. For me, personally, safety and cleanness play a big role in where I choose to live.
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u/Bubbly-Book0919 27d ago
It gets cold here too. Her and her friends not having heat was a big issue
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u/Big-Produce-9014 27d ago
Arena District has very reasonable pricing on their 4 bedrooms. They are also much closer to campus but also close to a nice residential area.
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u/GuyWhoLikesStuff101 26d ago
It’s because it’s downtown and there is a massive homeless population. It’s pretty rough going around there at night.
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u/GamingBeluga 25d ago
Do NOT go with 13th & Olive. I don’t/haven’t lived there but my girlfriend did. The management is terrible, they WILL fuck you over in every way, and upon move out, will take every bit of money they can from you. A ton of shit is breaking throughout the complex, including hallway door handles just out right missing, and exterior doors being bent out of alignment. It’s also very loud and has lots of parties. It can be any random night of the week and you’ll be woken up by some crazy loud music at 4am. Further, the apartments upon move in are filthy, you will have to do hours of cleaning and maintenance yourself. My gf’s dad spent 6 hours one day just doing repairs. On top of that, at one point some of their kitchen appliances broke and it took the apartment over a month to fix it. Then, worst of all, when she moved in, her dad had noticed some water damage on the ceiling which he brought to the management’s attention. They had said they were aware and fixed the issue, just not the water stains. They did not fix the issue, around June of this year, they noticed water leaking out of some of the power outlets, more water damage on the ceiling, and now some on the walls too. They tried talking to management with no success, and low and behold, their fucking ceiling caved in from the water. Luckily no pets or people were hit but some of their stuff did get damaged. After all of that, they obviously had to move out, and the management STILL tried to charge them hundreds in fines. So yeah, whatever you do, DO NOT lease with 13th & Olive. Duck’s Village and Chase Village are both solid options. I know a lot of people have liked Capri which is on the cheaper end too but still very close and decent enough quality
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u/Pixzigh 25d ago
I lived there last year and just moved back home this past June. Me and my boyfriend rented in a 3 bedroom apartment. Let me tell you the guy already living there had the whole place so dirty.
We had to deep clean the refrigerator because there was moldy, rotten food that had been left there for months. And the sink had plates with worms in it.
Me and my partner were both 21 and yet our roommate who made this mess was 30, and not a student.
The apartments did NOTHING to clean it up before we moved there. Also, the apartments are a no smoking area. He smoked...
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u/Ok-Tour1316 27d ago
from the UO website: “If I live in Oregon for 12 consecutive months will I be a resident after attending as a nonresident for a year?
No. If you take more than eight credits per term in those first 12 months, the state will presume that your primary reason for living in the state is for educational purposes, and you will continue to be classified as a nonresident.”