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Before your student signs a lease near Ohio State University - Columbus: a parent's checklist

Most student leases near Ohio State University - Columbus carry a parent guarantee. You are signing for twelve months of rent from another city or another state, usually after one walk-through your student did on their own. The record behind the address is public, and it takes ten minutes to read. LandLens has already matched 10,695 licensed rentals in Columbus to 21,308 public records, including 800 court eviction filings and 9,634 code violations.

The five things to check before you sign

  1. Who actually owns it. The name on the lease should match the owner of record or registered contact on the city registry. If it doesn't, ask why before anything else. The largest names on the registry near Ohio State University - Columbus right now: ASHLEY MATHIESON (478 properties), LISA WAITE (344 properties), ISABEL MCCAFFREY (181 properties).
  2. What the city and courts have on file. Licenses, inspections, violations, eviction filings. One old record means little; a pattern across an owner's buildings is what you ask about. Near Ohio State University - Columbus the records cluster on Indianola Ave (611), E 15th Ave (542), E 12th Ave (289), and the owners with the most on file are LISA WAITE (585), SAM RAPOPORT (218), TOM HEILMAN (184).
  3. What tenants said. Reviews on LandLens come from tenants who verified a .edu email, one per person per address. Read them, then have your student ask the current tenants the same questions.
  4. What the lease actually says. Joint and several liability (each tenant owes the whole rent), the deposit-return timeline, who pays for what repairs, and whether summer subletting is allowed. Every campus below has a free lease-review office; use it.
  5. The total cost of move-in. Deposit, first and last month, fees, utilities, and renter's insurance if the lease requires it. Get it as one number in writing.

Buying for your student? The Full Report is one purchase per address: every record with its source, every review, tenant answers on deposits and repairs, and the owner's other properties. It costs less than one month of the surprises it prevents, and you can buy it on the web without the app. Comparing three places? Three reports for $39. Already holding the lease? Get it read in plain English for $9.99.

Red flags worth a phone call

Free help near Ohio State University - Columbus

These offices review leases and take landlord complaints. Most will talk to a parent if the student is on the call.

Questions parents ask

Do I need an account to look up an address?

No. Searching an address, reading the public records, and reading reviews is free and needs no account. Your student needs a .edu email only to write a review.

What is in the Full Report for a Columbus rental?

Every public record on file for the address with its source, every verified tenant review, deposit-return and repair-response answers from tenants, and the owner of record with how many other properties that name holds. It is a one-time purchase, emailed as a PDF.

Can the landlord remove a bad record or review?

No. Landlords cannot pay to be listed, promoted, or removed. Public records come from the city or county source named on the page. Reviews can be flagged and are read by a human, but they cannot be bought off.

What if the address has no reviews yet?

That is normal; most addresses have none yet. The public record still tells you who owns the building and what the city and courts have on file. Ask the current tenants directly, and have your student leave a review when they move out.

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