 Hi everyone! My name is Grace Safasi and welcome to the Duncan Avenue Apartments. We're so glad to have you here today joining us on this tour. So right behind me we're starting off with Harmon Parking Garage as you can see. This is where you're going to be parking right over here at the Harmon Garage Avenue entrance as you can see. Yeah and there's I think three big parking lots on campus. There's Harmon, Garland, and then the one at the Union. I happen to forget the name of that one but the Union Parking Garage. So yeah there's three across campus. This is the southern most one. Yes so we are located right across the street from Harmon Parking Garage and also we are south of the engineering and champion hall which is a lot of academic classes for STEM courses right here so that's pretty awesome. But how about we go ahead and take you all inside and we'll show you some of the community spaces. Let's go look inside and there's a number of buildings that make up this apartment complex. I think there's five. Yes that's right. A, B, C, D, and E. That's the one that comes after. Okay all right so welcome to the front desk. This is going to be the place where you can pick up all of your packages and on our way to show you the room. We'll show you where you're going to get your mail and then over to our right is actually one of our common area lounges and waiting area if you ever need any assistance. We'll just have you hang out over here while you're waiting at the front desk and we also have a small kitchenette area if you have any classes you want to take a lunch break and you would just hang out here not inside your room and so that is pretty much the first floor space so we'll head upstairs and show you our gym that's in the Duncan Avenue apartment. I will point out that I noticed some dollies there getting ready for move in and about 10 days. Yes that's right we're excited to have you all. We have about 10 people watching so be sure and let us know where you're tuning in from and we'd like to say hello to you before you arrive in a couple days. Absolutely we're excited. If y'all have any questions go ahead and just throw them in the chat comment section. I'm going to run make sure I don't run into this bowl. Yes yes and we'll try and answer anything you have. I do want to stop here and let you know that behind me to our right this is where you're going to have your mail so you're going to have your sweet key your room key and then also you'll get a mailbox key and so that key will get you into your mail and if you do have any smaller packages we'll have a recipient key in your mailbox for you to grab that package. Okay great yeah. All right so we're going to head upstairs to continue the tour and this is one of the main ways to get to the gym. So we had Kanisha pop in and she was one of the first RA's at Duncan she's an alumni we always like to in fact it means a lot to us when the alumni come by so thank you. Yeah thanks for joining us. So this is this is our gym area of the reception. There we go I think we got it there. No worries so this is our main gym area unfortunately we will be having this area closed off this fall due to COVID reasons just to make sure that we're maintaining the CDC guidelines so we will it's not open now but it might be open later this year we're not sure if not then certainly next year. Yes so just stay stay tuned with the CDC guidelines we will be following those to just make sure that you all are kept safe. There's a lot of open space here I really like how it's laid out. Yeah absolutely so what's really beautiful about this area is just an overview balcony so we're still on to the B apartments so this is the B apartments and this platform is a really nice overview all the way to our left. Can you get a view real quick? Yeah absolutely so lots of green space and what's really nice about this area is that these apartments are for upperclassmen only and so it is a quieter environment so you'll get to meet your your neighbors and everyone and oftentimes you will find that they're all upperclassmen and they're trying to enjoy a quieter environment than the traditional freshman style halls. Right now I will say I've observed over the years that our our upperclassmen are really focused on their studies they are pretty serious so you can expect to be part of a pretty studious community they party and they have a good time but pretty studious. Absolutely and so I did want to talk about this really cool opportunity that we have this year specifically for upperclassmen students it's called LEADMORE and so if any of you have done LEADHOGS in the past it's an elevated leadership development opportunity specifically designed for upperclassmen students and so if you haven't done LEADHOGS in the past that's okay you're still welcome to join but it's a really unique opportunity for you to get to meet other students who are interested in their own leadership development I'm going to watch these stairs. Yeah keep your keep your eyes on the stairs and where are we going right now? We are actually headed down to the pavilion area which is a really fun space to hang out obviously being socially distanced this year but we are jumping right on to one of the bypass areas of the razorback greenway in Fayetteville which is pretty unique because we are right on the outskirts of campus and so you have access to this bypass and if you jump on it with your bike or if you're going on a run you will have direct access to the razorback greenway which is really exciting. That's about 30 something miles that go from Fayetteville Arkansas all the way up to Bentonville Arkansas. Yeah it's really it's really cool experience so we're passing over one of the bridges into the entrance of the pavilion area and this is a really fun place that we've done s'mores and evening hangouts in the past we do grillouts cookouts and things like that obviously it's going to look a little bit different this year because of COVID but we're still going to try and encourage all of you to come out here and be outside get out of your room get out of your apartment for a little bit and come enjoy this nice space that you have that's privately just for you all within the uh dunking apartment so. Do you hear the cicada? Do you hear the cicada? I do it's really nice it's see it's really calm out here um if you don't like the outdoors don't come out here it's very much in the nature yes it's really great I see students come out here and just study all the time um the fire pit and the grill are open access to our Duncan residence and so that's one of the nicer perks about living in the apartment complex absolutely okay so yeah let's head back over and we're going to go to one of the rooms and one of the apartments so we'll show you everything that you need to see got a stick on me and we're headed back on one of the bypasses and headed back to the bee apartments so if any of y'all that are tuned in you're watching we're headed to one of the apartments to show so if you have any questions or need us to do any measurements just put it in the comment section and we'd be happy to measure that out that's totally why we're here so don't be shy at all just ask us any pretty numbers you'd like once we're in the once we're in one of the apartments that's right so we're headed into bee 105 and all of our apartments are four bedroom and one or two bathroom options yeah so when you go on the website you'll see a slight price difference and that price difference is in fact whether it's one bathroom or two bathrooms so every apartment is going to have one of these lower storage areas it's not room controlled or temperature controlled but a lot of students put their bikes or any sort of outdoor equipment into this area and you can also bring your own lock to lock up any of your items that you have in here you think we can uh get it open i don't know okay a little bit elbow grease yeah that's great got it there you go okay little shed and um it's a great great space um i'm very much of an outdoorsy person so having a space like this is really nice there we go got it yep store my bike and everything like that yeah a great place to store your bike we're gonna go ahead and head on in and we're gonna meet my co-host for today hello co-host my name is camila and i am one of the graduate assistants for housing great to meet you yeah how many people do we have watching we have about 16 people who are tuning in 16 people tuning in right now who are interested to see what an apartment looks like in Duncan Avenue let me give a good uh pan real quick furniture in this living room area is movable within the apartment complex and so you can organize it to whatever your preference is and then right over here is the kitchen it is a fully equipped kitchen with the fridge stovetop excuse me oven microwave and dishwasher and you also have a small table lunch table with it so and this is um you may know this already but it's a fully furnished apartment so everything you see here comes with it that's right which is really awesome so you you don't have to bring a giant u-haul to bring all of your stuff in for moving um what i'm going to do now is show you the first floor of this apartment and what it comes with also is a washer and dryer unit and the location of these may differ based on um which apartment you enter but all of them will have access to the laundry the laundry room within each apartment so the current space we're in now has the um bathroom on the first floor so you can feel free to come on in do you mind pulling back that curtain absolutely shower bathroom and everything this one's a da it looks like maybe yes um most of the ones on the first floor um are ad accessible Americans with disabilities yes on this floor and um they also all come with movable furniture are we going to show one of them we're going to go to the one upstairs yeah and then we did have a question that came in that might be some of my build up with Julia asks can you show one of the 200 s upper apartments i noticed the kitchen is different and i don't know exactly about i don't know that this facility won't have to answer that one do you know we can show one of the 200 apartments um but you know you're going to see that the kitchen it's very very senior can you describe the difference okay okay well yeah sure if julia wants to we're happy to do it um and then christy asks can you measure the bedroom window for curtains and let's go upstairs and look at that yeah we'll do that and julia um the difference with those honestly you're going to see some that make that have um a countertop because the entrance is going to look different yes and so the layout might look different and we have a lot of those dimensions on the housing website specifically for the Duncan dimensions um christa what's that website uh-huh housing.ur.edu or move in that ur.edu that's right so we have the second bathroom on this particular apartment complex can you pull back the shower curtain yeah the shower looks maybe slightly smaller up here but okay okay commode and then sink area enter into one of the rooms and so like i said before all the furniture is movable and so you can organize your room to whichever configuration you prefer um we'll go ahead and do the measurements for julia uh the window yeah we're looking for the uh the measure of the bedroom windows for curtains this is for christy 62 and 62 so a square yeah okay got a square um and as far as mounting curtains let's see what would we recommend hand strips that have a larger hook and so that way you can pull a bar on the top like a shower curtain bar or if you do want to buy a standard um rod that goes on top just measure the dimensions and then do it to what you'd prefer but typically that's just the easiest way to do it and so that whenever you leave you can just pull them right down pretty easy yeah yeah that makes sense can we see the uh the patio yeah the pester was the the really good thing to see and out more patio which is really nice um you we do not have outdoor furniture but you're welcome to bring your own um i see a lot of students out here with their plants their garden they love love this space especially if you have a green thumb you don't have a green thumb that's okay i'm sure you can meet some friends that can help you out maybe get you an indoor succulent or cactus or whatever um but yeah it's a really nice view and um this is pretty standard all of the first floor apartments also have um an outdoor patio it's just a concrete area and then that's the designated space for you yeah um angel asked if we can show the other bedroom on this floor absolutely we sure can can we actually go in through um i think it's a lot it's locked okay yeah so i will just show you around you can figure it whichever way you like um obviously all the furniture is in a different space within this room but um you can move the desk and drawers and everything else around you do have an armoire in every room and then you have your um five-door dresser and then armoire there and then you have your desk and then you also have a nightstand table that you can either keep with your desk or seen a lot of students quit right next to their bed for their phone charger and everything like that for the lamp nice and then and then this dresser as well so plenty of places to keep stuff yeah do y'all have any other questions or anything else we can uh measure for you while you're with us uh juliet asked about the 200 s's uh is that something we can go look at yes is that pretty easy to get to yes we will follow you then yes on an adventure let's do it love it we love the engagement 100 apartments they only have one bathroom and the 100 apartments they have two bathrooms oh i didn't even know that was the designation learn learning things today i learned this is 205 let's head on in here immediately you're going to see this countertop for the dimension difference with the kitchen i think it was juliet yep that's right that's right so i'm going to get out of your way to see that part so you gotta have a big bar right there yeah so same same basic setup but it does have that additional bar right where the door is yeah and there are questions that you might have do you want the room upstairs as well will it be the same as it'll be the same as it was yeah it's the same configuration okay if it's a little bit different okay yeah all right why not let's do it but all of the floors and Duncan avenue apartments they're all wood floors and then the bathrooms are all tile oh nice so the configuration up here is you have all of the personal rooms up here and then all the common space on the first floor so you have two rooms on your left and then you'll have the two rooms on your right and as you can see you'll share a main vanity sink area so then what's the difference is that you each almost like a suite you get your own bathroom and shower area and are there two of those yes there's one on each side okay so there we go all right okay well yeah excited for a move in in a couple days and anything you might encourage your upperclassmen who are arriving to do they know what they're doing anyway yeah i don't know what to do but i just say you know relax enjoy the last few days that you have before the school year starts it is going to be you know an interesting time with covid during a pandemic and so we understand that we're here to support you and so just know we're all in this together we're going to figure it out and we're here to keep you guys safe so very good all right well if you don't mind just waving we'll say goodbye yeah that's right so thank you everyone for joining us today that concludes our tour if you have any other questions please just go ahead and email us at housing.ur.edu and we will figure it out and answer all of your questions thank you so much for joining us today and i hope you have a good rest of your day we'll see you soon