Friday, April 11, 1980
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Off-campus housing options vary
Off-campus housing options in Lawnery range from apartment complexes, houses and rooms to mobile homes and co-op homes. In varying advantages and disadvantages
Several information sources are available to those looking for off-campus living quarters. Probably the most common source is the classified section of newspapers. Here, the home-bunter has residence, from Victorian to mobile homes.
The Office of Residential Programs in Strong Hall maintains up-to-date listings of rooms and apartments throughout town, as well as the offices in the reception area and are updated periodically. There also is a billboard of listings for people seeking new roommates. The office has 271 phone numbers.
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A small pamphlet, the "Lawrence Rental Housing Directory," listed about 65 apartment complexes, is also available in the residential programs office.
The Lawrence Rental Exchange, 1611 St. Andrews Dr., also keeps "up-to-the-minute" listings of available Lawrence housing.
Aside from these rental services and classified advertisements, the Lawrence phone directory is generally the best bet for locating apartments.
According to Greg Kruger, a salesman for Ridgeview Estates, mobile homes have a number of significant advantages over apartments.
Although most off-campus KU students live in houses or apartments, many apartment hunters opt, instead, for mobile homes or rooms.
"Usually it's more quiet because you don't have somebody living right next to you, so the neighbors don't mobile homes because they don't have much maintenance and their utility bills are low."
Among the advantages of rooms are low rental and low maintenance costs.
The following is a list of off-campus housing alternatives and their services:
ACORN, 1904 W. 24th; 2-bedroom, unfurnished, $250, no utilities paid; 10- or 12-month lease.
APPLEROFT, 1741 W. 19th; studio $180;
1-bedroom B25; 2-bedroom B26; furniture
available at extra cost; one-year lease;
air conditioning; route; heat, air
conditioning; water naid
ARGO, 1030 Missouri; 1-bedroom $200; 3-bedroom $275 (2 persons); $300;
all unfurnished; one-year lease; dishwasher, garbage disposal, laundry room.
AVALON APARTMENTS, 901 Availon
1: bedroom; 1:bedroom 1:20; bedroom $240;
all unfurnished; all utilities paid except
laundry facilities, parking, on bus route.
ARIZONA STREET DUPLEXES, 702-84
Arizona: 4bedroom, 2bath $450; dishwasher, d/w hookup, central air,
off-street parking; no pets.
BIRCHHWOD GARDENS, 19th and
Tennessee; 2-bedroom $245-$60, no utilities
paid, furnishable but furniture available at
their own location; laundry facilities one black away.
BRADY APARTMENTS, 1599 Kentucky; i-bedroom 2, efficiency 817%; all utilities paid except electricity; 10-month lease; laundry room,洗衣房，walking distance to campus.
COACLIGHTH, 1002 W. 24th; 2-bedroom $265-75; unfurnished; no utilities paid; one-year lease; laundry facilities, pool, on bus route.
COLD WATER FLATS, 413. W14; 1th; 1-and
2-bedroom $250-300; water paid.
CRESENTC 1815 W. 24th; 2-bedroom
$230: no utilities paid; 10-month lease.
EVERGREEN TRIPLEXES, 2008 Mitchell Road: no vacancies.
GATEHOUSE, 2166 W. 8th; 1-bedroom $225-$235; 2-bedroom with one bed $225-$235; 2-bedroom with extra large living room $28; 3-bedroom $40; resident pays gas and electricity; 10-month and one-year lease; cars across street, pool carpets, on bus route
HANOVER PLACE, 209 Hanover Place;
1-and 2-bedroom $255-335; one-year lease;
water paid.
HARVARD ROAD 4, PLEXES, 306-24
HARVARD ROAD 2: bedroom 72; no utilities paid; unfurnished; dishwasher, disposal,
disposal, central air, off-street parking;
no pets.
HARVARD SQUARE APMENTS,
2105 Harvard Road; 2-bedroom $290; all utilities paid except electricity; laundry facilities, parking.
HOUGHTON PLACE, 2400 Alabama; I
HOUGHTON PLACE, 2120-220; studio
810-190; 2bedroom
560-280; studios furnished; all
paid except electric; one-year
lease.
HEATHEWOOD VALLEY APARTMENTS,
21st and 1Heather Bedroom; 1-bedroom
$34; 2-bedroom $75-$28; 3-bedroom $45;
carriors available; one-year lease;
carriersavailable
JAYHAWK TOWERS, 2-bedroom $325-375; all utilities paid; furnished and unfurnished; some with dishwashers; pool, roomry room in each tower, park on bus route
JANA DRIVE DUPEXES, 1033-39 Jana Drive; 2 bedroom $25-37; no utilities; one-year lease; dishwashers, disposals, within walking distance to bus.
JAIHAWK WEST. 234 Frontier Road; 1 bedroom; $18,000 available;房型 $80 more per month; nine-month lease, shorter available; pool, complex owners bus to
MALLES OLD ENGLISH VILLAGE, 2141
Louisiana: 1-bedroom (one person)
2-bedroom (two persons) or
1-one person)
$298, two persons) $300; 3-bedroom (one
person) $41, (three persons) $72, all
rooms
$5,298
MARK I, II, 1-bedroom $190-200; 2
bedroom $265-275; water paid; unfurnished;
laundry facilities
paid except electricity; laundry room, pool, on bus route.
MEADOWBROOK, 15th and Crestline.
studio $195-225, some utilities paid; 1 bedroom $755-315, gas and water paid; 2 bedrooms $755-315, gas and water paid; 3 bedroom $500-360, gas and water paid; 2 bedroom townhouse $325, no utilities paid; 3 bedroom townhouse $355, no utilities paid; one-year lease; laundry rooms, pools,
basketball, tennis courts, on bus route.
MT. ORLEA APARTMENTS, 12th and
Oread; studio B $130-$145; bedroom 1 $60-$75;
furnished; all utilities paid except electricity:
10-month lease.
NASIMH Hall, 1800 Nasimh Drive
2-bedroom room $254 a month, $1150 a semester or $229 a month; all utilities paid;
furniture; laundry facilities, pool,
walking distance to KI.
PARK PLAZA SOUTH, 2500 Redbull Lane; 1-bedroom furnished $210; unfurnished $190; 2-bedroom furnished $210- $240. Room bathrooms; laundry facility; on bus route
OLDE MILLS APMENTS 905
Enry Room; 1-bedroom furnished $285,
unfurnished $25; 2-bedroom furnished $260,
unfurnished $300.
Route, also walkway distance to KI 114.
PARK 25, 2410 W. 55th; 1-bedroom $25; 2-bedroom $28; beds with two baths $15; all utilities paid except gas and water; 12-month lease; laundry, on bus route, on bus route
PARKWAY TERRACE, 2340 Murphy Drive; 1-bedroom furnished $215, unfurnished $155; 2-bedroom furnished $25, unfurnished $15. Lifetime liabilities paid; 10-month lease, pool, bus route
RIDGEVIEW ESTATES, 1980 E. 19th: 2-bedroom mobile home $240; water and sewer paid; sizes range from 12 by 56 feet to 14 by 70 feet.
SHAHAR, 1622. Schwartz Road; 1 bedroom $156; gas and water paid; unfurnished; one-year lease; central air, laundry facilities.
RONNIE'S, S 1102 W. 24th; 1-bedroom $145-
165; 2-bedroom $180-200; no utilities paid;
unfurnished.
SCOTCHMAN SQUARE APARTMENTS,,,
2412 Alabama; 2-bedroom $235; no utilities paid; unfurnished; one-year lease.
SOUTHRIDGE PLAZA, 704 W. 128th; 1bedroom unfurnished $177-208; furnished $199-212; 2bedroom unfurnished $303-218; 3bedroom unfurnished $365-224; facility on bus route; one-year lease.
SOUTH VIEW COMMUNS, 1701 Ohio; 2 bedroom $294; uninfurnished; no utilities; one-year lease; dishwasher, w/d hookups, attic space and off-street parking
**STADIM APARTMENTS**, 1125 Indiana; 1-bedroom furnished $195, unfurnished $185; 2-bedroom furnished $255-265, unfurnished $225; sleeping rooms furnished $106, un furnished or utilities paid; laundry facilities, cable television, parking lot. Rooms have refrigerators.
SUNDANCE APMENTS, 14501
Lynch Court; studio 3165; lot office 8290;
one-year lease; all utilities paid except electric;
laundry facilities, on bus route.
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THE OAKS, 2332 Ridge Court; 1-bedroom
$225; 2-bedroom $70; unfurnished; all
utilities paid except electricity; 10- and
12-month lease; pool, furniture available.
TOWN AND COUNTRY, 522-8 Lawrence Ave; 2-bedroom 523;不赊 furnished; water paid; dishwasher and disposal, laundry facilities, noool.
TRAILRIDE, 200 W. Sixth; studio $200;
1-bedroom $250; 2-bedroom $300;
3-bedroom $400; furniture available; water in studios, gas and water in apartments; one-year
WEST HILLS, 1012 Emery Road; I-10
in furnished farmhouse; I-90
$190-$365 in furnished $725-$285,
unfurnished $240-$280; water paid;
washroom, laundry facilities, pool; 10-month
VILLAGE SQUARE, W, Ninth and Avalon Road; 2 bedroom £250-285; no utilities paid; 10- and 12-month leases; unfurnished, but furniture available; laundr facilities.
WEST SEVENTH COURT DUPLXES,
3510-16 W. Seventh; 2-bedroom $225;
4-bedroom $400; unfurnished; no utilities
dishwasher, disposal, w/ hookup.
WINDMILL ESTATES, 27th and Ridge Court; 1-2, 3-bedroom $215-$300; no utilities paid; one-year lease on bus route.
WOOD CREek APMENTS, 255
Michigan; 1-bedroom $100; 2-bedroom $20;
3-bedroom $240; gas and water paid; one-year
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Consumer group warns renters, 'caveat emptor'
By TOM TEDESCHI Staff Reporter
Twice each year*—fall and spring—KU students rush into the Lawrence housing market, often like lemmings rushing into the sea.
It's that time again.
According to Susie Hanna of the
Miami Ware Association, 319
Vernon Street, Miami, FL,
these problems between landlords and new
tenants is the tenant's ignorance of
the laws.
"I'd say the first thing they should do is read the lease very carefully and know what they are signing," she said.
For example, she said, some leases have what is called an automatic renewal clause.
"Another thing to look at is the record the complex has with maintenance and repair work," she added.
"What it means is that within 30 or 60 days of when the lease ends, the tenant must renew again unless he notifies the landlord," she said.
A COMMON mistake a number of apartment complex owners as well as Hanna warned against was buying apartments sight unseen.
Far too often, she said, prospective tenants are shown a "model apartment" but never going to lease. The result is that many times the new tenant unwittingly moves into the unit.
'If the landlord says 'these things will be cleaned, these things will be
repaired,' don't move in until this is done," she said.
"Any agreement on repair work should be done in writing." Hanna added.
HANNA SAID that if a prospective tenant was not sure about the lease he was going to sign, he could bring it down to consumer affairs office for inspection.
The consumer affairs association also publishes the "Rental Housing Handbook," which includes Senate and includes a sample lease, Hanna said. Also included is information on oral and written leases, repairs, insurance reports and the Lawrence housing code.
"The other suggestion I have is for the tenants to take initiative on their own, and then allow people in the complexes. Talk to the people possible, who is moving out of apartments."
The handbook is free, but because the Student Senate decided to discontinue funding for consumer affairs, the supply is limited. Hanna said.
Also available at the consumer affairs office is a copy of the Kansas Landlord- Tenant Act.
Hanna said that under the act, the landlord and new tenant are obligated to look at the apartment and fill out a description describing the condition of the apartment.
"That is required by law," she said. "I think the tenants should initiate that. We have checklists here and tenants can come in for them."
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