All our houses are smoke free!
Arrellaga House: $ 795/mo. 6 beds, one of our outlying dorms and is a bus or bike/skateboard ride to campus 2 kilometers (
1.2 miles )
Victoria House: 795/mo. 3 bedroom, two bath house for 6 in downtown SB. Victoria is 17 blocks and requires a bus ride to campus
or a 1.9 kilometer ( about a mile ) walk or bike ride. This is part of our outlying homes category.
Castillo House: $795/mo. 3 bedroom for 6, close to dowtown. This is bus accessable to SBCC ( 2.1 kilometers/1.3miles ) Can also
be biked or walked and is another example of our outlying homes category.
Wentworth House: $ 895/mo. 6 beds, walk to school 5 blks/ 20 - 25 min. Very close to campus.
Orange House: $ 895/mo. 5 beds, 1.5 baths, walk to school 5 blks/ 20 - 25 min. Very close to campus.
De La Vina House: $895/mo. 5 bedrooms; all with own bath(!!) 9 beds, walk 5 blks/ 20 - 25 min or very short bus ride to
campus. Very near downtown (2 min).
Haley House: $ 895/mo. 3 bedroom; each with its own bath(!!) house and it is our closest home to campus, about a 4
block walk ( bus stop 3 houses down to ). Very near downtown (2 min).
Elise House: $895/mo. Our flagship! This is a huge executive home for 8 on the Mesa, about 1 block from the central
Mesa malls and a 2 kilometer (1.2 miles) bus or bike ride to SBCC. The bus stop going to campus is 1 block
away. High end Mesa location and a short walk to the beach through La Mesa Park.
All housing includes
Furniture & Equipment
All furniture and all utilities including cable and internet ( wireless category G or mostly now N high
speed ethernet ), household cleaning services.
Furnishings include a twin bed bunked ( or roommates can bring down ), a desk, chairs and 3
dresser drawers. The living areas are furnished and a large TV with full channels of cable ( HBO, Cinemax, etc., no PPV
) are provided in the LR. Cable may also be available in the rooms but will carry only the basic channels without the pay
box. Full wireless property wide high speed ethernet internet access is provided.
Supplies
We provide the following materials for the students at each house on a weekly basis. Specific
weekly amounts are stated to protect ASH from non renter useage and removal from site. To avoid running out all ASH renters
are asked to protect thier supplies from removal or useage by non renters.
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Laundry Soap. Very basic, in powder forms 3-4 loads per week per student.
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Dish Soap. Squirt bottle kept up weekly.
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Broom, mop, vaccuum ( in some houses w carpets ), dish sponges, scrubbers and other basic kitchen
materials including window cleaner and Pine Sol. Larger supplies should last a semester. The smaller consumables will be re-supplied
as needed.
General house foodstuff
Mayonnaise, ketchup, mustard, margarine, cooking oil, sugar, salt &
pepper are stocked and checked weekly.
There's more! Cereal, milk, pasta, ramen ... please visit the foodstuff page.
Housekeeping
The
household cleaning consists of common area cleaning weekly. The kitchen is stocked with pots, pans
and utensils.
Note: The weekly cleaning is 2 man hours, once a week. This is a crew of 2 who clean for 50 minutes,
or 2 man hours weekly. If the house is found with many dirty dishes and the common areas unstraightened, much or even
most of thier time will be used in the common areas only. If the main areas are kept up, then time for deep cleaning in the
bathrooms and such will be available. Keeping a house is a shared duty between SBSH staff and the student residents.
Also,
with the weekly house cleaning, this allows for step-in supervision into the main areas and bedrooms, where we can watch
for unauthorized guests and undesired activites in general.
DISCLAIMER
General
Many of the materials
we provided are not only for convenience, but it also helps create
organization and often stops problems!
We are doing all the running
around, buying in bulk, purchasing and delivering right to the houses for everyone. If laundry soap is provided for instance,
then 6 small boxes do no need to be purchased, stored and safeguarded separately by 6 students. One issue of borrowing, loaning
and other often associated troubles and frustrations of having room mates is eliminated.
Food
Meals are not allowed to be provided within the City of Santa Barbara. Active Student Housing
does not and cannot provide prepared meals. However providing materials for many household requirements and general food stuff
that the students can prepare themselves can be provided.
Although most
food groups are represented, we ask all families to consider our provisions as the cereals, condiments and the starches ONLY,
when calculating your students needs for a balanced diet. Some may well live on our provisions,
but fresh vegetables, dairy and fresh meats, fish and fowl are not brought in by us. Additional nutrition can be had at the
fine cafeterias on SBCC campus or by additional shopping by each student.
We do not claim or believe that our provided foodstuff represents, in any way, a complete or a
balanced diet. Many items are of the condiment nature or just staple foods.
With that said however, we try and provide as high a value as we can by buying in bulk and bringing
unexpected variety, quantity and value for each student renter.
Recipes to make basic dishes
using our most frequently provided foodstuffs are on the walls of the kitchen, in poster forms. We hope cooking skills may
begin for some, who may later remember back to thier college year for fond memories of boiling water (hot dogs!), scrambling
eggs and making spaghetti and meatballs!
Regarding food, each student should be prepared for lite cooking, ordering in and be able to use
the Cafeterias on campus. SBCC has 3 terrific food sources, including a full cafeteria with veggies, entree's and everything
needed for a good diet. There is also a walk through cafeteria for food on the go and a great cafe on the East campus
with burritos, sandwiches and such. All will take a debit card. In addition there is a full restaurant
up there served by the hospitality department. This complete restaurant is geared more to the local public than
the students, however its up there and can be used.
There
is easy pizza and oriental ordering in Santa Barbara, and there is refridgerator space and individual dry storage for
each student to prepare meals at home. The kitchen is stocked with pots and pans* and is ready for a microwave quick chef
to full on maestro bakers.
