Sometimes, the best therapy can be something fluffy and cute, and some students at Ohio State have taken steps to register their pets as emotional support animals. According to the National Service Animal Registry, qualifying disabilities to have an emotional support animal, or an ESA, ...

Mitch Mundy and his roommates were sitting at their home on Chittenden Avenue when the house went dark. They initially thought a fuse had blown, so one of them went down to the basement to fix the problem.  When that didn’t work, they called their ...

As landlords face complaints of dead rodents in walls and sewage backups at the properties they rent out in the off-campus area, some said they’re working to improve on the service they provide. For Michael Groeniger, property manager at G.A.S. Properties, the secret lies in ...

In an effort to prioritize student safety, an Ohio State program is inspecting about a dozen off-campus homes a day. The OSU Office of Student Life’s Off-Campus Housing Excellence Program conducts home visits, where representatives from Neighborhood Services and Collaboration and the Columbus Division of ...

Many Ohio State students have come to expect some amount of decay when they move into an off-campus house, so when Jared Malvic and his friends moved into a house on 12th Avenue last year, they weren’t surprised to find it needed some maintenance. But ...

The Off-Campus Housing Excellence Program at Ohio State has kicked off its home visits, where a representative from Neighborhood Services and Collaboration and the Columbus Division of Fire visit students’ homes to make sure the properties are up to par. This includes assessing the “safety, ...