Champion Blog category: Apartment Living
Renter Friendly Decorating Tips
Whether you’re moving to a new apartment or hoping to refresh your current space, make your apartment feel like home with these renter friendly decorating tips! Add depth and interest to your space by incorporating organic materials, a mix of textures and artisanal pieces throughout. Add pops of color to your home with colorful furniture. …
Questions to Ask While Touring Apartments
Knowing what questions you want answered during an apartment tour will save you time and energy. It will also help you compare each apartment community accurately, because you’ll have the same information for every apartment you viewed! Below are questions we recommend that you ask during a tour to ensure you find the right apartment …
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How to Avoid Frozen Pipes This Winter
Sub-zero weather can cause havoc in your home, and when you live in an apartment building your problem can quickly become your neighbor’s problem. This is especially true with pipes, that are prone to busting during the winter when proper precautions are not taken to ensure water does not freeze inside of them. The temperatures throughout …
Pay your rent by text with Champion’s new Text2Pay program
Looking for an easier way to pay rent? Champion’s new Text2Pay program will provide its residents a more convenient way to pay rent, no matter where they are! Gone are the days of writing checks and logging onto a computer to pay your rent. As of Friday, February 26, 2016, Champion residents can now opt in to pay their …
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Spring Cleaning Month: Bathrooms
We’ve taken a whirlwind tour of deep-cleaning through your apartment over the past month, and we’ve saved possibly the worst room to clean for last … the bathroom. Bathrooms get gross, plain and simple, and cleaning them often involves a little elbow grease– especially if you avoid cleaning them for an extended period of time. …
Spring Cleaning Month: Bedroom and Closets
Now that the main areas of your apartment home have been thoroughly cleaned, it’s time to move on to the other rooms, namely the bedrooms of your apartment and the closets. If you are like the average person, these rooms can get messy and disorganized for two simple reasons: 1) Most of your belongings are …
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Spring Cleaning Month: Kitchen
We’re all about Spring Cleaning for the month of April, and last week, we made a list of less than 10 steps to spiffing up your living area. This week, we’ll focus on the kitchen, which we all know is a constant battle to keep clean. That being said, it is also one of the …
Spring Cleaning Month: Living Room
There’s still a chill in the air in Central Ohio, but according to the calendar, at least, Spring is officially here. The season means that our property managers and maintenance staff are hard at work, helping the communities recover after a long winter. Now that the snow is melted, the grounds are being cleaned, and …
Renter’s Insurance Is Less Than…
At Champion, we require that our residents carry at least $300,000 of liability coverage through a renter’s insurance plan. We are often asked by new renters, why this is mandatory, and the truth is, it is for safety. It is for the safety of the resident and his or her belongings. It is for the …
Sources for Free Moving Boxes
Moving is fun for no one, and one of the biggest sources of moving stress is packing all of your things. Where do you get all those boxes? They take up too much space to store year after year. And who wants to pay for brand new ones at a packing and shipping store when …