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Renting an Apartment in Ogden
What You Should Know
Ogden is the county seat of Weber County,Utah, United States. The population
was 77,226 at the 2000 census. A 2005 estimate placed its population at 78,309.
Weber State University, founded in the year 1889, is located in Ogden.
Ogden-Hinckley Airport, Utah's busiest municipal airport, is located just to the
southwest of the city.
Ogden is home to the minor league baseball team Ogden Raptors of the Pioneer
League.
History
Originally named Fort Buenaventura, the city of Ogden was the first permanent
settlement by people of European descent in the region that is now Utah. It was
established by the trapper Miles Goodyear in 1846 about a mile west of where
downtown Ogden is currently located. In November 1847, Fort Buenaventura was
purchased by the Mormon settlers for $1,950. The settlement was then called
Brownsville, but was later named Ogden for a brigade leader of the Hudson Bay
Company, Peter Skene Ogden who trapped in the Weber Valley. The site of the
original Fort Buenaventura is now a Utah state park.
Ogden is the closest sizable city to the Golden Spike location at Promontory
Summit, Utah, where the First Transcontinental Railroad was joined in 1869.
Ogden was known as a major passenger railroad junction owing to its location
along major east-west and north-south routes. Railroad passengers traveling west
to San Francisco from the eastern United States typically passed through Ogden
(and not through the larger Salt Lake City to the south). Ogden, however, is no
longer served by Amtrak, the national passenger rail system, and passengers
desiring to travel from Ogden by rail must travel by bus to Salt Lake City.
In 1972 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints completed construction
of and dedicated the Ogden Utah Temple in Ogden. The temple was built to serve
the large LDS population in the area.
Because Ogden has historically been the second largest city in Utah it is home
to a large number of historic buildings. However, in the 1980's, several Salt
Lake City suburbs and Provo had surpassed Ogden in terms of population.
The Defense Depot Ogden Utah operated from 1941 to 1997 in northern Ogden. Some
of its 1,128 acres (4.6 km²) has since been converted into a commercial and
industrial park called the Business Depot Ogden.
Geography
Ogden is located at 41°13′40″N, 111°57′40″W (41.227744, -111.961193)GR1.
Ogden's summers are hot and dry; winters bring snow.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 69.0
km² (26.6 mi²), all land.
Pineview Dam is located 7 miles east of Ogden in the Ogden River Canyon. It
provides over 110,000 acre-feet (140,000,000 m³) of water storage and water
recreation for the area.
Demographics
As of the censusGR2 of 2000, there were 77,226 people, 27,384 households, and
18,402 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,119.3/km²
(2,899.2/mi²). There were 29,763 housing units at an average density of
431.4/km² (1,117.4/mi²). The racial makeup of the city was 79.01% White, 2.31%
African American, 1.20% Native American, 1.43% Asian, 0.17% Pacific Islander,
12.95% from other races, and 2.93% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of
any race were 23.64% of the population.
There were 27,384 households out of which 35.2% had children under the age of 18
living with them, 48.4% were married couples living together, 13.1% had a female
householder with no husband present, and 32.8% were non-families. 26.2% of all
households were made up of individuals and 9.6% had someone living alone who was
65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.73 and the average
family size was 3.32.
In the city the population was spread out with 28.8% under the age of 18, 14.6%
from 18 to 24, 29.0% from 25 to 44, 16.3% from 45 to 64, and 11.3% who were 65
years of age or older. The median age was 29 years. For every 100 females there
were 102.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 100.5 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $34,047, and the median income
for a family was $38,950. Males had a median income of $29,006 versus $22,132
for females. The per capita income for the city was $16,632. About 12.6% of
families and 16.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including
20.2% of those under age 18 and 9.3% of those age 65 or over.
Transportation
Both Interstate 15 and Interstate 84 serve Ogden, connecting the city with
communities far to the northwest, such as Boise, Idaho and also points west in
Oregon, and communities to the north, including Pocatello and Idaho Falls, Idaho
and Butte, Montana. South on I-15 is the extended Wasatch Front metropolitan
area, including the cities of Layton, Farmington, Salt Lake City, West Jordan,
Sandy, Orem, and Provo.
Ogden's 12th Street corridor was a subject of early planning investigations in
the 1970s, as the Utah State Highway Department attempted to upgrade that
facility taking into account the constraints of the urban corridor. This
corridor contains a dense accumulation of lodging, public buildings, offices,
restaurants and other services.
Sites of interest
* Peery's Egyptian Theatre
* Ogden Forest Service Building
* Ogden Utah Temple
* Ogden High School
* Dee Events Center
* Eccles Avenue Historic District
* Bigelow-Ben Lomond Hotel
* Union Station
* Ogden/Weber Municipal Building
* Historic 25th Street
* Snowbasin Ski Area Alpine Skiing venue during the 2002 Winter Olympics
* The Ice Sheet Curling venue during the 2002 Winter Olympics
Renown
Two ships in the United States Navy have been named after the City of Ogden. The
first, USS Ogden (PF-39), in 1943 and the second, USS Ogden (LPD-5), in 1964.
Ogden was the site of the infamous Hi-Fi Murders in 1974.
Some Things to Consider When Looking for an Apartment...
When searching for a new apartment make sure to take your time to think
through what are the most important things to you in an apartment and plan your
search based on those priorities. Here are some things to consider when planning
your move:
1. Consider the areas where you would like to live
* What is the crime rate?
* If you have children - what rating does the local school system have?
* Is there area convenient shopping, health and recreation services in the area?
2. Make a list of your housing priorities
* Do you have pets?
* Do you need parking?
* Do you need to be on the ground floor?
* What amenities are important to you - swimming pool, fitness room, in unit
laundry?
3. Evaluate the building
* What is the condition of the unit and building?
* Are the grounds maintained?
* Are windows, steps, and railings in good condition?
* View the property at night. Is it safe and well lit?
4. The security of the property
* Are there security service? When is the guard on duty?
* Does the building have controlled access?
* Does each unit have secure door and window locks?
5. Talk to the neighbors
* Ask other residents whether they are satisfied with the building.
6. Amenities
* Who is allowed to use the amenities?
* When are they open?
* Are the fees charged to use those facilities included in rent?
7. Ask about Utilities
* Does the owner or tenant pay the utility bills?
* Are any utilities included with monthly rent?
* Do units have separate thermostats to control heat and air conditioning?
8. Review the lease
* How much notice must you give before moving out?
* Can the rent be increased? If so, by how much and how often?
* Are pets allowed?
* What is the security deposit and cleaning costs upon move out?
* What is the responsibility of tenants for damage to property?
* Is there a penalty for breaking a lease?
9. Information too bring to a lease signing
* Credit Report
* Pay stubs/tax returns
* Reference
* Application
More Apartment Information
An apartment (or flat in Britain and most other Commonwealth countries) is a
self-contained housing unit that occupies only part of a building. Apartments
may be owned (by an owner-occupier) or rented (by tenants).
Some apartment-dwellers own their apartments, either as co-ops, in which the
residents own shares of a corporation that owns the building or development; or
in condominiums, whose residents own their apartments and share ownership of the
public spaces. Most apartments are in buildings designed for the purpose, but
large older houses are sometimes divided into apartments. The word apartment
connotes a residential unit or section in a building. Apartment building owners,
lessors, or managers often use the more general word units to refer to
apartments. Units can be used to refer to rental business suites as well as
residential apartments. When there is no tenant occupying an apartment, the
lessor is said to have a vacancy. For apartment lessors, each vacancy represents
a loss of income from rent-paying tenants for the time the apartment is vacant
(i.e., unoccupied). Lessors' objectives are often to minimize the vacancy rate
for their units. The owner of the apartment typically transfers possession to
the occupant by giving him/her the key to the apartment entrance door and any
other keys need to live there, such as a common key to the building or any other
common areas, and an individual unit mailbox key. When the occupant move out,
these keys should typically be returned to the owner.
Apartments can be classified into several types. Studio, efficiency, bed-sit, or
bachelor apartments tend to be the smallest apartments with the cheapest rents
in a given area. These kinds of apartment usually consist mainly of a large room
which is the living, dining, and bedroom combined. There are usually kitchen
facilities as part of this central room, but the bathroom is its own smaller
separate room. Moving up from the efficiencies are one-bedroom apartments where
one bedroom is a separate room from the rest of the apartment. Then there are
two-bedroom, three-bedroom, etc. apartments. Small apartments often have only
one entrance/exit. Large apartments often have two entrances/exits, perhaps a
door in the front and another in the back. Depending on the building design, the
entrance/exit doors may be directly to the outside or to a common area inside,
such as a hallway. Depending on location, apartments may be available for rent
furnished with furniture or unfurnished into which a tenant usually moves in
with his/her own furniture. Permanent carpeting is often included in an
apartment.
Laundry facilities are usually kept in a separate area accessible to all the
tenants in the building. Depending on when the building was built and the design
of the building, utilities such as water, heating, and electric may be common
for all the apartments in the building or separate for each apartment and billed
separately to each tenant (however, many areas in the US have ruled it illegal
to split a water bill among all the tenants, especially if a pool is on the
premises). Outlets for connection to telephones are typically included in
apartments. Telephone service is optional and is practically always billed
separately from the rent payments. Cable television and similar amenities are
extra also. Parking space, air conditioner, and extra storage space may or may
not be included with an apartment. Rental leases often limit the maximum number
of people who can reside in each apartment. On or around the ground floor of the
apartment building, a series of mailboxes are typically kept in a location
accessible to the public and, thus, to the letter-carrier too. Every unit
typically gets its own mailbox with individual keys to it. Some very large
apartment buildings with a full-time staff may take mail from the mailman and
provide mail-sorting service. Near the mailboxes or some other location
accessible by outsiders, there may be a buzzer (equivalent to a doorbell) for
each individual unit. In smaller apartment buildings such as two- or
three-flats, or even four-flats, garbage is often disposed of in trash
containers similar to those used at houses. In larger buildings, garbage is
often collected in a common trash bin or dumpster. For cleanliness or minimizing
noise, many lessors will place restrictions on tenants regarding keeping pets in
an apartment.
In some parts of the world, the word apartment is used generally to refer to a
new purpose-built self-contained residential unit in a building, whereas the
word flat means a converted self-contained unit in an older building. An
industrial, warehouse, or commercial space converted to an apartment is commonly
called a loft.
When part of a house is converted for the ostensible use of a landlord's family
member, the unit may be known as an in-law apartment or granny flat, though
these (sometimes illegally) created units are often occupied by ordinary renters
rather than family members. In Canada these suites are commonly located in the
basements of houses and are therefore normally called basement suites.
Staying in privately owned apartments rather than in a hotel is quickly becoming
popular with travelers.