Rental Season Updates

Thanks for considering Buckeye Real Estate for your housing needs in the 2025-2026 lease term. Rents are usually set and updated on our website by mid-September. Our current residents lease agreements are just starting in August and they will be given a renewal period before we begin renting. We can begin showing our units on Friday, October 18th via walk in showings ONLY. We can begin scheduling tours for October 19th three days before.

Here are the most frequently asked questions we get about rental season:

How can I sign a lease without waiting until October 18th ?

Our office offers an alternative to waiting until rental season; and that is the Renewal Waiver Form. Basically, if you view a Buckeye Real Estate home on your own with the current residents, and they don’t plan to renew, they are able to ‘waive’ their renewal rights and allow you to sign a lease earlier than October 18th. Renewal Waiver Forms will be available in our office or online (click the link below the Updates header) on September 30th and explain further how the rental would work. This is a NEW lease that you would sign, the form simply tells us that the current residents don’t wish to renew and it’s okay with them if we sign their unit to someone else. You should be prepared to pay the first month’s rent and sign a lease with all of your fall roommates when you bring the completed form back to our office. See our full leasing procedure on our website: The Leasing Procedure.

What is the first day of rental season like at Buckeye Real Estate?

Our FIRST OFFICIAL DAY of rental season begins Friday, October 18th. Many prospective residents have started looking for apartment-homes by now and are shopping on our website to narrow down their housing options and/or walking around the campus area checking out places on their own. The first day of rental season is always busy! There are prospective residents who opt not to use a Renewal Waiver Form and instead choose to wait in line the first day of rental season in order to rent their desired apartment. While it’s true that we begin showing on Friday, October 18th, keep in mind that there are only so many showings we are able to take and our showings have a tendency to book up early. So, many residents will view a unit on their own in order to rent it the first week of rental season, rather than waiting for an appointment to show. Keep in mind that all units are rented on a first come, first serve basis. It is not necessary to make an appointment to rent the unit, you can rent any unit that you have viewed, whether through us, on your own, or by using the 3D tours available (if applicable) on our website.

At this time, the easiest thing to do would be to search online to narrow down properties that might interest you. Our website is updated DAILY, so if a unit is on the site, it has not yet been signed for fall of 2025 yet. Feel free to stop by our office with your list of properties during normal business hours. That way, a leasing staff member can discuss your housing options in person and explain the rental procedure to you.

No waiting on our BRAND NEW properties for Fall 2025!! We are sure to have units that are under construction and therefore don’t have a renewal period! We can’t show them, because they don’t yet exist, however, we will have available drawings/floor plans posted on our website!

At this time, the list of brand new units is as follows:

BRAND NEW FROM THE GROUND UP:

Flats on Waldeck and Woodruff! Studios through 5 Bedrooms 

1998 Summit St. (5 Bedroom)

47 W. Oakland (5 Bedroom)

1968 Indianola #D (4 Bedroom)

67 W. Oakland (4 Bedroom)

69 W. 10th Ave.  (3 Bedroom)

161 W. 10th Ave. (3 Bedroom)

311 E. 16th Ave. (1 Bedroom)

I will give you fair warning that any properties located between 11th and Lane and between High and Summit are very popular based on their price and location, and, therefore, very competitive. You might want to look into the Renewal Waiver Form option on those!