FAQs | Student Apartments in Fort Collins, Colorado
It’s a top-quality Fort Collins community designed especially with CSU students in mind. Flats at the Oval features a variety of spacious, renovated apartments plus a full set of community features such as an on-site cafe and restaurant, community events, reserved covered and uncovered parking, quick access to Old Town and more.
Flats at the Oval is a privately owned and professionally managed community. Click here for more information about the management and ownership.
You can select your roommate(s), or you can apply on your own and we can match you with other students. Applicants answer a short list of lifestyle questions to help in the matching process.
Instead of requiring all roommates to sign a joint lease, each person at Flats at the Oval has their own individual contract, with one person per bedroom. This means you are only responsible for paying for yourself — not your roommates. Even if a roommate moves out or other bedrooms in your apartment are empty, you only pay the rate for your bedroom.
Each resident at Flats at the Oval pays a flat rate that includes:
- High-speed internet
- Trash disposal
- Community features
The spacious accommodations at Flats at the Oval range from studios through 1, 2 and 3-bedroom apartments, with a private bedroom-bathroom suite for each resident.
The apartments at Flats at the Oval do not include furniture, but come with a full set of appliances.
The standard term is August 16, 2027 to July 24, 2028, with payments made in 12 equal installments. Limited alternate dates are available; please inquire with our staff. Click here for a sample agreement.
Within 7 days after a Housing Agreement is signed, each resident is required to provide a qualifying guarantor (often a parent). However, a resident may choose to pre-pay the final 2 installments and request a waiver of this guarantor requirement. In limited cases, we may also waive the requirement if a resident has sufficient income of their own.
Yes. Residents can pay online 24 hours per day, by credit card or ACH electronic checking. Flats at the Oval offers automatic payment by either credit card or checking account — just fill out one page, one time and payments will be made automatically. Convenience fees apply for credit card and debit card payments.
Your living costs at Flats at the Oval can be covered by financial aid, just like on-campus housing. Any available financial aid funds, after university charges are satisfied, are released to the student for non-institutional expenses, such as off-campus housing. These funds can be used to pay charges at Flats at the Oval. Normal payment deadlines will continue to apply.
Nearly all the residents at Flats at the Oval are students at Colorado State University and the per-person contracts are also designed with students in mind. Flats at the Oval is an Equal Opportunity housing provider and welcomes applications from non-students and residents with children, at no extra cost other than regular charges for each bedroom space selected by the resident. To match roommates in shared apartments with college students, roommate consent is required for any occupant who is not a college student.
Flats at the Oval a monitored fire-sprinkler system, along with electronic locks for building access plus individually hard locking bedroom doors. Community courtesy patrols are provided at select times. Management staff can be reached by a 24-hour phone number.
Flats at the Oval is a no-pets and smoke-free community. Guests are welcome at all times, subject to the consent of roommates and security considerations. Overnight guests are welcome, with limits on the number of days and guests.
Flats at the Oval offers limited reserved covered and uncovered parking.
Flats at the Oval is directly across from the Colorado State University campus. Just a block aware are a MAX transit bus stop and Mason Trail, to discover Fort Collins beyond campus.
Yes. Please request an appointment for a personal tour, or just stop by to see us and we’ll be happy to show you the community. We also offer a virtual tour that can be viewed here.
