StateHouse Varsity, columbus-oh

I wish I could give this place 0 stars. The staff and everyone in that place are incredibly unhelpful and will charge you for everything and anything. The only good aspect of it is the distance to campus. Beside that this place will do nothing but raise your rent (after claiming to be rent stabilized), give you hundreds of maintenance issues and charge you extra fees because they had to “paint your room” yet when you get to your room there are command hooks all over the walls from the past tenant. This place is absolutely ridiculous and I do not see how student legal services has not had it shut down yet. Also the staff gets incentives when you right a good review with there name on it and that is where all the 5 star reviews are coming from.

Don’t be swayed by Google’s 4.2 star rating. While this is a fabulous location you’d be hard pressed to find happy tenants here. First, sort your Google reviews by “Newest” because Statehouse took over around August 2024 so reviews older than that are essentially irrelevant. Now scan down and note how many of the 5-star reviews are rating either the tour or the tour guide (seems there must be an enticement to lead a glowing review after taking a tour) but how tenants don’t share their enthusiasm. We spent about $45,000 in rent here for the last two years and the management team excels at over-promising, under-delivering, making excuses, and then over-charging on your way out the door. That fancy gym? The equipment stays broken for months on end. Then they closed it for “remodeling” that continued indefinitely, with nothing more than minor cosmetic updates. I think we paid another $175/month for “secure” parking. The garage was damaged and couldn’t be closed or secured for 8 weeks. There’s about 100 cars in that space, so Statehouse collects $17,500/month, or an additional $35,000 for the two months they didn’t repair it. No rush to repair it, no temporary security guard, no partial refunds… just a politely-worded “tough luck”. This was a premium property when it was The Wellington but it’s been sliding down hill fast ever since. Proceed with caution. They’ll dazzle you, charge you as much as possible, and provide as little as legally required. I’d look elsewhere. PS: They could have prevented this review by not charging us for $188 in undocumented damages but they’re so greedy they couldn’t see the bigger picture.

If you want to experience the worst apartment, this is definitely the place. When you move in, you won’t find a fresh and clean unit. Instead, you’ll walk into a dirty apartment that hasn’t been cleaned, sometimes even with belongings left from the previous tenant. The washer will never be fixed, the range hood is never cleaned, and even if you submit maintenance requests, they will likely go unresolved. Even worse, the internet here goes out frequently. I was in the middle of an online class when it suddenly cut off—and once it’s down, it can take two or three days before it comes back. They claim to provide “high-speed internet,” but it’s worse than campus Wi-Fi. You can’t break your lease, and nobody wants to take over your sublease because the price-to-value is terrible. At night, it’s extremely noisy. Whether you live near High Street or inside the courtyard, there are always people yelling and partying late into the night. With such expensive rent and such terrible management, this place is absolutely not worth it. As someone who has lived here, I sincerely advise you: do NOT choose this apartment.

Renter beware — there is homeless people living across the street urinating on the apartment building, harassing the kids coming in the that live there, dog feces in the outdoor common area, they charge 25.00 for a roll of toilet paper left in a room after move out. People banging on the apartment doors at all hours of the night. Attempted break ins. The garage and building smell of sewage. The office workers as well as the manager Olivia are absolutely helpless to say the least. They will charge you for anything and everything extra they can. They prey on college students. The list of issues at this dump is endless.

I cannot leave a bad enough review about living in this apartment for the past two years. It is the most overpriced apartment near campus and the location is by no means worth living here. There was mold coming out of all of the vents, the pipes, and even the walls. Whenever we would leave a maintenance request about the mold, they would simply wipe it off and it would grow back in a few days or they would never come. The parking garage became even more expensive the previous year and it floods almost weekly with sewage water to the point where the cars are sitting in standing water let alone the smell that fills the building. We were also charged an extremely large amount for "cleaning" when we moved out, but the apartment was filthy when moving in and had not been cleaned whatsoever. This building is in no way worth the price!