OCHA | Welcome

Winter Quarter Hours

Mon:	9:30am - 10:30am

	1:00pm - 4:30pm
Tue:	9:30am - 10:30am
	11:30am - 5:30am
Wed:	9:30am - 10:30pm
	11:30am - 5:30pm
Thu:	11:00am - 5:30pm

Fri:	11:00am - 2:30pm

Contact

Phone Number
206-543-8997
Director Mike Snowden
ochadr@u.washington.edu
Assistant Director Joseph Salama
ochaad@u.washington.edu
General Housing Inquiries
asuwocha@u.washington.edu

February 22, 2010

MTV's True life wants to come to Seattle!

True story! MTV has contacted me to spread the word about their latest in-progress series of Truelife: I have roommate issues. What they are looking for is the acknowledgement of the universal constant: roommate issues. Issues may even be a strong word for it, but MTV is looking for people with conflicts with those they live with. This does not have to mean the environment is hostile, loud, or truly uncomfortable, what it means is there is obviously something that doesn't click between one or more roommates, and they want to record it and show everyone else that they are not alone in their roommate situations! Here's an example of what we're talking about:

*Political differences*

*Cleanliness issues*

*Sexual orientation differences*

*Space issues*

and more!

Essentially, if you feel that their is some sort of conflict between you and your roommate(s), let us know! If you and your roommate(s)qualify and are comfortable being "documentisized" AKA being filmed, then you may be featured on MTV's presentation of the acclaimed documentary series True Life!

Oh, and check this link out for more information on the documentary series "MTV's True Life!

All the best,

Mike Snowden, Director

January 12, 2010

New Year, New Quarter, New Happenings!

I hope everyone's holiday season was one of relaxation, family, and good times. And eggnog. But eggnog jokes aside, here are some announcements of what we plan on doing this upcoming quarter!

Tabling

We will be out on the HUB lawn every Tuesday and Thursday. We will be there with information for renters, for roommate-searchers, and to answer questions anyone might have. This will begin next Tuesday, January 19th.

Expanding Outreach

We're looking to expand OCHA with goals to let everyone know what it is we do. Tabling will be one facet for this, as well as numerous other ideas that our office has been coming up with. Keep your eyes out for the Big Red Couch that is OCHA!

EXPERMENTAL COLLEGE ENTITY WORKSHOP

This one is a BIGGIE! We are teaming up with the ASUW entity "The Experimental College"and teaching our own "class" that will contain information pertinent to those students looking to move off campus, for those who are already off-campus and have more questions, and for anybody in general who have any questions regarding housing. One of the main topics to be discussed is Rights & Responsiblities of both Landlords and Tenants, though more will be discussed. This is a great opportunity to become educated on life off-campus and what to expect from certain situations you may come across! For more information about our workshop and the other enitities' as well, click here-> ASUW Entity Workshops!

That's enough chit-chat for now! Keep your eyes open for us on the HUB lawn and don't be afraid to stop by!

Mike Snowden, Director

December 14, 2009

Winter Break

From December 14 until January 4th, the Off-Campus Housing Affairs office will not be holding office hours. What this means is in order to get answers to any inquiries, please e-mail asuwocha@uw.edu and we will respond to you in as timely fashion as the holiday season allows. Emails will be looked in on and responded to, but voicemail and faxes will not be returned until the office re-opens on January 4th.

Happy Holidays to all of you! Safe travels and take care!

Best regards,

Mike and Joseph

Off-Campus Housing Affairs

October 26, 2009

Landlords! Tenants! Lend us your thoughts!

We are looking to redesign some of the formats for which some, if not most, our business is conducted through. On our end, that means changing the search options around to better accommodate tenant searches, and redesigning our housing forms (Linked below) to allow for more information exchange between us and you area landlords! But we cannot do this without you! Next time you visit us on the web, think to yourself on how we can improve our search options and let us know! Take a look at our housing forms and try to figure out if there is anything missing, and please, let us know! We're going to be doing the same thing on our end and with your input, we can make Off-Campus Housing searching AND posting much more efficient and accessible to all!

Thank you for your time and effort in helping to make OCHA a better organization!

Housing Forms (PDFs)

Sublet Housing Form
Shared Housing Form
Non-Shared Housing Form

OCHA Director
Mike Snowden

September 29, 2009

Fall is here!

With the return of fall comes with it the return of students, so landlords, get in touch with us about your available rentals! Students, faculty, and staff get ahold of us so we can help find you that new apartment you've been waiting for! Our office hours will take affect on the first day of Fall Quarter- September 30th, 2009. We look forward to helping all parties, landlords and tenants, to the very best of our abilities! We hope the summer season treated everyone well and the beginning of Fall quarter brings all of you the very best!

OCHA Director
Mike Snowden

February 20, 2009

Welcome to our new website!
Since our first website launch in the Spring of 2007, we have received many suggestions on how to improve the website. After discovering various bugs in our old website, we have decided it was time to completely redesign it. We welcome any criticisms, suggestions and questions regarding the website via e-mail at ochadr@u.washington.edu or via phone 206-543-8997. Thank you for your patience and welcome to our new website!

Best Regards,
The OCHA office