Quality rentals, friendly staff and fair prices. I would recommend renting from this company.read more

Pnina, the landlord has too many rentals to monitor and does not always keep up what is being done…read morefor repairs. The tenants pay for everything including water, even the yard up keep. The tenants were charged for too many mowings that were never done. The structure of the rental house needs updating and as little as possible gets done. The tenants are ripped off on the deposit. Stay away from Sabel Rentals. Too much rent and not enough amenities.

Joel gave us a tour and rundown of the paperwork, and started the application. I had all of my…read morequestions answered, felt like I knew what I would be going into, and I really appreciate the clarity of finances. this has been one of the least stressful and informative apartment tours I've been on!

The Summit at Coates run is possibly one of the worst experiences I have had with an apartment…read morecomplex. First, they have a monopoly on the Athens area. If you don't resign your lease within a day, they increase the rent. Rent is cheaper the sooner you sign a lease, and they continually increase rent until it becomes upwards of $800 per month by December. Second, when I moved into my apartment it was absolutely disgusting. There were stains everywhere, mold in the bathrooms, mold on our HVAC system, grime and soap scum on all of my faucets. To top it off, our apartment had FLEAS when we moved in and no one informed us. We found out when we all had red bites all over our ankles. Maintenance sprayed for our fleas, but no rent concession or apology was made about the state of our apartment. Third, the wifi and power goes out often. When the wifi or internet does go out, it is out for HOURS and you have to make your way to campus to complete any work. For $625 per month EACH we shouldn't be experiencing issues like this frequently. Fourth, The Summit is money hungry and will attempt to get anyone who is subleasing to sign a new lease so they can make commission, screwing you over. The Summit at Coates Run would be a great place for you to live if you enjoy supporting money hungry companies, rarely having internet, rarely having power, having a disgusting apartment that smells like smoke, and if you want pay expensive rent for subpar amenities.

Really nice guys! - took time to show us all the available apartments and answered our emails…read morewithin a timely manner.

My wife and I asked Bryan Wharton to sell our home. He had the house listed for 17 hours (not a…read moretypo) when he called and said "I have an offer over your asking price." We thought it would take months to sell the place and are clearly thrilled with that result. We then asked him to sell some vacant land that we owned. We were in no hurry to sell and priced it pretty aggressively. Bryan went right to work. He used every tool in his tool bag and worked extremely hard to aggressively market our property. Again, remarkably, he had an offer we could not refuse 17 days later. My wife now calls Bryan the "house whisperer" based on the noted amazing results. I would simply give Bryan Wharton, and the entire team at Ohio Realty, my highest recommendation if you are selling real estate in Athens or a surrounding county.

Very Disappointed in this company. They leased my daughter's apartment to other tenants before she…read morehad time to re-sign for another year. Their explanation was we contacted her 13 times. I reviewed all the emails and the only notification about re-signing was a small blurb in 2 newsletters, 1 in March before we took possession of the apartment & the 2nd in April a full year before the end of the lease. Their explanation was "oh, sorry, well you should know how early we have to have leases signed here". Now we're left scrambling to find somewhere for my daughter to live next term. Unprofessional, unorganized, unhelpful! Beware & be sure the company has your email as well as your child's. READ EVERY communication from the company no matter how trivial it appears. The unfortunate thing is due to ever increasing enrollment at OU & lack of housing opportunities in Athens, you may have no choice but to rent one of their apartments.

Our daughter rented from here for 2 years and the third year she had to leave before the lease had…read moreended. We had no issues during her stay and the unit was well kept during her time here. They were also nice enough to find someone to take over here lease so she could come back home. We will rent from them again when our other daughter attends OU in the future.

SCAM!!! They will steal your security deposit and there's nothing you can do about it. They force…read moreyou to sign a lease extension since your lease will end the day of or before graduation. This extension outlines that they can charge you $600 if it is not up to their standards (it won't be no matter how much you clean). So you're basically forced to give up $600 of your deposit on top of cleaning fees (at least $50/hour). They are also extremely disrespectful to their tenants, will not answer any emails or phone calls, and treat you like you are a stupid child. They will turn off your water for days without telling you and not fix your maintenance requests quickly/get annoyed when you request something. There are much better rental companies in Athens, stay far away from Wharton!!!

I could rant for hours, but I'll just copy the email I just sent to the office R.E. my pitiful…read moresecurity deposit return. In addition, my apartment was dirty/dusty/filthy upon move-in and contained a wasp problem which was never resolved after multiple phone calls. The ceiling broke and leaked, which was just plastered over (temporary fix). The walls were cracking and the floor was uneven, all indicative of structural problems. Yet this, the landlord assured me, was one of the rentals in "best condition" that he reserved for graduate students. I recently received my security deposit return of $264, and I am very frustrated to see that I was charged for items I did not damage and was not responsible for fixing. I would like to dispute the damage charges for the shower, the "missing blinds" in bedroom #2, the missing blind wands from the living room, and the key return fee of $10. Item #1--when I moved in, the landlord informed me that the shower was "newly renovated." Little did I know, "newly renovated" was another phrase for covering up the existing mold problem. It took a few weeks, but the bathtub indeed began to lose color, leak, and crack the caulking as the existing mold came through again. Even when the inspectors came through the apartment mid-year, they noted that the shower should be re-caulked. It never was. I made numerous phone calls to the landlord complaining of a moldy, cracking shower, but the problem was never dealt with except for a maintenance man telling me to "make sure the shower curtain is pulled all the way shut." I should not be charged for the bathtub caulk issues. These issues are what made the bathtub seem dirty to the professional cleaning service, when actually, I spent at least an hour scrubbing the bathtub prior to my moving out. Item #2--referring to the itemized apartment condition report I completed upon move-in, it states that the blinds in the living room were missing blind panels and both rods, making the blinds non-functional. All of my family (who helped me move in) can bear witness/testimony to this fact. When I turned in the move-in condition report, the secretary at University Off-Campus Housing told me that, since move-in was such a busy time of year, the office would repair the blinds at a later time (after the "big stuff" was taken care of). The blinds were never attended to. I spent two years standing on top of a chair to open and close the blinds, yet now I am being charged for missing blind panels/wands that I did not lose or break. Item #3--similar to Item #2, the second bedroom did not come with blinds upon move-in. The window was bare. I asked the landlord about installing blinds, to which the reply was "you would have to pay for them," so I declined and dealt with a bare window. Now I am being charged for "missing blinds" in the second bedroom, which were never installed in the first place! Item #4--On the key check-out sheet, it is clearly noted that I returned my key to the apartment via mail on July 10. Why, then, should I be charged half of the key return fee when my subleaser neglected to return her key? I believe she should have been charged the entire $10 fee, instead of splitting the fee between us. Lastly, I believe it is ridiculous for tenants to be charged for a loose towel bar, a loose refrigerator handle, and replacement light bulbs, as these should be included in the general maintenance of the apartment. I believe these would also fall under the "normal wear and tear excepted" terms of the lease. Since the aforementioned items were out of my control and unjustly charged from my security deposit, I would like to request additional money that I am owed from University Off-Campus Housing. I am asking the damage assessment of $166.55 be waived, split, and returned to the tenants.

Maintenance is quick to respond! To a myriad of issues, including the house not having any…read moreinsulation, gas leaks from faulty installation, bugs getting in constantly...... but Q in the office is a literal saint. If you want 4 walls to live inside for reasonably cheap for a slumlord-run college town, this is probably your safest bet.

I am absolutely appalled by how unprofessional and rude University Rentals is. Not only the people…read morewho work in the office but the maintenance employees as well. Most of the rental companies in Athens are already dog shit, but after having lived here for almost two years now this one has to be one of the worst experiences I've ever had. In one occasion, (take note that we are a house full of 5 college girls) over summer break while we were still leasing this house at some point maintenance people came in (WITHOUT a 24 hour notice or notice at all, which is ILLEGAL and is against our lease agreement) and fixed a small hole in my roommates bedroom. Why are they opening our bedroom doors and entering without us knowing we don't know... Most of our belongings were still in the house and none of us were even in Athens. Again with the maintenance people, they rev and kick up gravel with their noisy trucks at any hour if the day or night. We also were not told that we would be sharing what we thought was only our parking lot with the maintenance people. Yes our lot is large, but each of our five cars plus the 5 trucks that are theirs, along with the random people that our landlord would allow to also park in our lot it's not large enough. Just recently, one of our roommates who moved out and went to live back home (but still pays her part of our group lease) got an email saying that she was 3 months behind on rent. She was given no notice the first month, no notice the second month, and finally at the start of the final month of rent she received a nasty email saying and I quote "if I don't have the rent by tomorrow I will begin the eviction process". She does not live in town and the realtors know this, so she had no way to get the check to the office in time, luckily she has a friend in town who is able to write a check and take it to the office, but in the email there was no amount of professionalism when talking to her tenants the ones who give her the money that she so gravely needs. The wording came across as a personal threat against not only a girl who does not live in Athens, but the rest of us who still live in the house and had paid in time. As far as the house goes, all of the walls on the first floor are basically a think layer of plaster than if leaned up against will collapse and fall through into the insulation (if there is any). Light switches were put on upside down, rotting wood in our back deck, and the usual landlord special of painting over anything that previous tenants have left on the walls and windowsills. We even had a gas leak out in the front yard that you could literally smell standing on the front porch that maintenance people claimed to be normal. If you are looking for a place to live in Athens look elsewhere to save yourself years of rental trauma and degration from your landlord. They do not respect us and they do not respect the house they lease.

I have been extremely disappointed with my service at RiverGate recently. My roommates and I have…read morehad a severe chemical odor coming from our freezer that has been contaminating our food. We have put in multiple maintenance requests (the first one placed 3 weeks ago) about being concerned with anti-freeze leaking but have still not heard back. We have also been to the main office in the building with our concern for this but have been told that it will be handled when maintenance has time.

Really bad experience. Don not get an apartment through UC management, you could also get UC…read moreapartments directly through owners. If your security Deposit is confiscated for wrong charges, contact student legal services to take legal action.

I was not at all satisfied with the commons. The people working here are rude and lazy to the point…read moreit takes weeks to finish jobs. The more you live here, the most depressed you will get.