Living in Over the Rhine Cincinnati - OTR Real Estate Neighborhood Overview

[@samuelhartsock1177]

This place used to be really bad. I got sober in a half way house on republic street called Joseph House. That place saved my life. I'm glad it's much better now.

[@shesaknitter]

I'll soon be selling a house that is in Mt. Auburn, just up the hill from Over the Rhine. We've already been getting lots of offers and we don't even have the house on the market yet. It has amazing views of downtown Cincinnati, the Ohio River, and Covington, KY. Cincinnati is a beautiful city.

[@tinadancer5678]

I am moving back to Cinci after 21 years in Seattle. When I left OTR was becoming an entertainment district, but still kind of sketchy to live in. Thanks fir this information.

[@TeamSztanyo]

You’re welcome!

[@chrisjb308]

Fantastic video man and your love and enthusiasm for the city definitely shines through. I too fell in love with Cincinnati after a 3 day trip there to see the Reds play. Completely blown away by it. I'm from New Zealand (live in NYC now) and have lived in/visited many US and Canadian cities. This city and area is right up there for me as truly one of the best.

[@TeamSztanyo]

Thanks Chris! Here's hoping we can catch a Reds game together in 2021. :)

[@caysonpierce2515]

instablaster...

[@yoshirox25]

I'm from Chicago and currently live in SF (and have been to Cincinnati a couple times as a child so I kinda have a very limited/sugar coated memory of what the city was like after revitalization from a tourist perspective) and seeing videos of Cincinnati randomly pop in my feed lately makes me think that you people have got at most 5 years tops (I mean it, like absolute max if you're lucky) before you start to make videos about how you miss the charming and under the radar cool vibes you used to get here in your city because it looks like the most NEXT IN LINE COOL CITY I can think of right now. I've seen how it devours and chews up important parts of big cities like I've seen in Chicago and San Francisco, and also the money and clout it leaves behind for a city to reinvent itself in exciting ways, but not without a huge expense that your city's culture and integrity will be faced with. Basically, get ready for the ride, because there's no way Cincinnati is gonna stay a secret any longer now that everyone is out of quarantine and looking for that new undiscovered gem. I already know I'll be coming soon for a visit, I'm intrigued by the urban stairways and paths and want to do my own tour of the biggest/longest ones I can find because I'm weird like that. So expect there will be others coming for their own reasons and they will bring their blogging equipment too, if this hasn't all probably started already. It's started. Be careful what you wished for.

[@TeamSztanyo]

Thanks for watching the videos and your feedback! You may be spot on.

[@analousworld1777]

Cincinnati! I'll be there soon 🙏

[@dustinbranham9746]

Looks like a great neighborhood. We live in a similar neighborhood just outside downtown charlotte. Urban entertainment district. Walkable, bikeable. But cincy has such amazing architecture that I’m a little jealous. I’m also glad to hear y’all built a streetcar. That takes real commitment to transit, and you’ll always have naysayers who complain about anything non car focused. Great vid. Thanks for highlighting such a cool part of your city. I want to come visit for a weekend one day.

[@TeamSztanyo]

Definitely come visit! ... You're absolutely right about naysayers. There were arguments to be made for both sides. They recently made the streetcar free to ride to boost ridership and try to just get revenue from advertisers. Ultimately, it makes the most sense if it's connected to Uptown Cincy by the University and Hospitals (lots of employees), but for now, it's a nice way to enjoy downtown as a resident or visitor.

[@NORTHBROOK1978]

A few years ago.. a few blocks over it was the most dangerous intersection in the U.S. lots of not white on not white killing each other stuff. Definitely don't go at night even now.

[@samsikkema8791]

Thank you for the awesome video, you did a great job!

[@leemcintyre9490]

Boy, that's Great , Love to see what's happening with OTR!! More work to be done I'll bet! But, Love what I see!!👍

[@sanduskyohiobro]

Thanks I live in Sandusky and will visit that area this summer

[@vilhelmhammershoi3871]

I so miss Cincinnati! Greetings from Mexico!

[@TeamSztanyo]

👋

[@dragunovbushcraft152]

Wow! I lived on Race st. back in the early '80's. It never looked like this! Much nicer now.

[@TeamSztanyo]

Definitely.

[@Accune]

"Dodd's Jewelers 65 Race St"

[@dorothyrichardson2821]

You know why😲😡

[@dragunovbushcraft152]

@@dorothyrichardson2821 why?

[@GaryGainey]

Love to be back there now

[@adnankhan2414]

really like your videos.

[@TeamSztanyo]

Thanks!

[@Darktrik001]

I lived in Corryville, Clifton and such for years but regularly went to the Warehouse, delivered pizza downtown, walked and bussed through parts of OTR. This has heavily been gentrified over the last 20 years for sure. I can't imagine the cost of living in OTR now compared to back then.

[@kryptonson]

True, but at least now you won’t get shot walking down the street there

[@pearcetoney007]

Yes you will

[@mayavenuemisfit814]

​@@kryptonsonyou're funny. OTR is still every bit as dangerous as it was 15 years ago. It just looks nicer in some places now. Don't believe the hype.

[@kryptonson]

@@mayavenuemisfit814 it’s called sarcasm..

[@GaryGainey]

Love the City

[@beverlynelsin8833]

it's cool u feel that way about otr and yes it's change pretty good but like I said otr has been changed every decade and it DNT stop ppl from geting robbed jumped or shot

[@scottibarrett]

About to move to OTR next month!

[@TeamSztanyo]

💪

[@ompaloompa4970]

Lived on Pleasant street in the 60's

[@matthewmende6403]

Hello, I am a 25 year old looking top move to Cincinnati and this neighborhood looks perfect. My one concern is rent prices. Is OTR reasonable for a young professional on a somewhat tight budget? (under1k)

[@TeamSztanyo]

You might not be able to find something right in the heart of OTR for that. But, check out Clifton Heights or Pendleton, and you could probably find something in your budget. Facebook Marketplace is actually a decent place to find rentals in the area.

[@GaryGainey]

Love 💕 Cincinnati

[@JohnandCaraRetiredTravellers]

We are heading to Cincinnati in a few weeks on a 3 month road trip. Researching areas to stay this looks like a great place! Thanks for the tips any other suggestions would be helpful! ~Cara

[@TeamSztanyo]

You're welcome. Have fun!

[@garrybrotherton8408]

Go down there in the 90s....you wouldn't say that. Not sure how they changed the situation cause you my friend....would get whooped or shot. I know. Lived there for 40 yrs....I still love my 513....my blood....

[@bhdreamer]

I’m coming ..

[@Derekmartin20]

Wow apparently it changed. I do remember years ago they was trying to run out people and clean it up.

[@ClayShentrup]

it's expensive because people hate cars and desperately want to get away from them but they are so few places you can do that in the US so neighborhoods like this are as close as you can get.

[@nobleman_81]

10-15 year's ago,you wouldn't be walking around downtown freely like that😂.Its a good thing but its bad for the outside of the city cause they pushed everyone from downtown out into the suburbs.

[@3506Dodge]

Why should Cincinnati have all the fun? Mt. Healthy should have some too!

[@pearcetoney007]

Sure wouldn’t. His money and that camera, and his pockets would have gotten empty immediately.

[@3506Dodge]

This is one of the very few parts of Cincy where you CAN actually make money in residential real estate.

[@christopherstevenrankin]

Good video. I heard Emilio Estevez has a home in OTR. If i had that money and notoriety, Cincy would be great place to live. Why live in LA or NY where your hassled everywhere you go. Around here no one really cares. No paparazzi.

[@TeamSztanyo]

Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if more celebrities have homes in Cincy. It's a great place to fly under the radar, but still enjoy a great city.

[@christopherstevenrankin]

Speaking of the streetcar that was mentioned. I read an article where Estevez discussed that. I live up in the Dayton area. I've always been in love with Indian Hill and Loveland.

[@8gomerpyle22]

LA does not hassle most of the stars, only the top ones. No one would bother will E.E.

[@sorrygtfo]

what's the weather like in cincy?

[@TeamSztanyo]

4 seasons. May and September-October are my favorite months.

[@dorothyrichardson2821]

2/16 Snow 8 inches 15 degrees oh its winter

[@paulinedivingdeepincincinn1962]

If you live here in otr you better carrie your gun.

[@TeddyBelcher4kultrawide]

I’m looking for no neighborhoods in Cincinnati New York

[@NORTHBROOK1978]

Just don't walk two blocks over. The window dressing only goes so far.

[@user-vt1ix6tn8f]

There is a lot more work that needs to be done in OTR. I lived done there in the early 90’s. Still a lot of drugs down there near Race and Green st. Vine and Libery st. A lot of dilapidated buildings need rebab north of Liberty street. BTW the street car is useless and millions of taxpayers money was wasted on that project. Because of the street car tracks the famous October festival was moved from the fountain square. Very disappointed about that action.

[@horseplop9]

It's still very dangerous and quite expensive.. not safe enough to live

[@brendapayne6603]

Where do the poor people who used to live there live now? Those who can't afford the rents and prices st the breweries and restaurants?

[@atiyarise4131]

@Brenda Payne, The people have been displaced and forced to other parts of the city, county, or out of the city/state all together. Example - The West side (price hill, west wood etc). Northern part of Hamilton County (Colerain and etc), Out of city limits, KY, Shelters, or on the streets.

[@pearcetoney007]

I still live downtown right now. I’m one of the poor people. Come see me and you’ll see what the the old OTR was like. Vine and Green homie!! Come see me.

[@carlariggs525]

when I lived there, I enjoyed Findlay Market, Washington Park, and all of the downtown events and restaurants. That being said, it wasn't (and still isn't) a safe place to live. I rarely carried cash but always carried mace/pepper spray. Things were stolen; car broken into; and caught two people in a compromising position out my kitchen window (ewwww). So if you are set on living in zip code 45202, be safe. Arm yourself, get a watch dog, a high tech security system, and good insurance.

[@TeamSztanyo]

Thanks for sharing. Sorry that happened to you!

[@bhillboy37]

When people say how bad gentrification is, I tell them about Over The Rhine and why gentrification isn't so bad.

[@YB00]

To the neighborhood, maybe. But how about the tons of people that couldn't do it and had to be displaced elsewhere? Fuck them?

[@YB00]

@@Susieque963 But you are not the only side of this story. Those who used to live there are not less worthy of safety and good neighborhood than you are. The money and effort put in displacing them should've been invested in rescuing them and their neighborhood from crime, drugs, and poverty. Gentrification only moves the problem elsewhere - to a place where the public eye can't see them, or perhaps chooses not to see them.

[@YB00]

​@@Susieque963 You're not even listening. I am not advocating for keeping neighborhoods dangerous; that's obviously no good for anybody. What I'm saying is the effort put into moving the problem elsewhere or covering it should have been put into solving the problem altogether. And please give me a break, you don't know me nor where I live.

[@beverlynelsin8833]

and i.love how ppl who wasn't down there in 1982 thinks they foreal know all about downtown and when they named it otr it was to stop ppl who got busted for prostutes and the John's and drives the wer not aloud BK in the over Rhine for 30 days that's why they gave it a that name and only jerman ppl own anything down there was grammars restraunlts across from free store with only had two color men working for him so he wdnt look bad lol the other place was Arnold's best place to eat on 13 street was Tucker's BK in 1982

[@beverlynelsin8833]

I Liv downtown when my daughter's wer one and four and we got evicted out they had rats like cat's landlord use up my name on gas bill I got stuck with that 30 thousand bill they put alot of ppl out and no the dam jerman ppl didn't do crapt to download until they kicked out ppl who live ther and walk to the market every morning but when they put ppl out they move to price hill Avondale Walnut hills downtown use to be drug feathers prostitute men iwho stayed in bucks pool call was rich they gave teens money for sex the hole downtown was crazy all they did was open up some buildings thers some closed down it's still crazy but now ther evicting ppl agian and letting the weathy control downtown witch is sad DNT belive downtown has change no it's still vilent down ther

[@beverlynelsin8833]

I was raised in otr cin Ohio and my mother stayed in the bar on the corner of 15 the and vine bj in 82 she stayed in ther from 6 am til 230 am lol I bet I know every inch of ever Street and 15 the and vine was my nite mate and every decade ppl bought buildings was slum landlords wasn't nothing but bars bars and restaurants and bars bay horse polars bar swing bar Corky's Cory's silver dollar bar on Walnut Street convention center kids hug in iveys and Tay bar cafes like I said ever decades they wd be new ppl come to town buy moree buildings otr has never stayed good cause u get robbed raped jumped and fake ass friends the festvels cause roaches and the river rats come up into otr every time they have parades or festvels yes can can be nice some times but dirty older men are looking at your teen kids it's not safe in otr belive me it's not

[@karlgrote9220]

I grew up in otr in the 1980 90 it was and place to live drugs and gang violence and prostitution

[@TeamSztanyo]

😬

[@ClayShentrup]

It's "realty" not "real-ity". Other than that, great video. Gentrification is good.

[@hospitalfood6621]

People speak differently in different places. Let’s hear a New Yorker say it or someone from New Orleans. Sure they would each say it totally different. Get a life please and stop being the pronunciation police.

[@ClayShentrup]

@@hospitalfood6621 LOL, it's not about an accent, you're just reversing the phonemes of the word. REE-la-tee instead of RE-al-tee.

[@graemespringer4643]

This is absolutely ludicrous. I used to buy my drugs on Republic and Green. On one hand it's good but on another you've destroyed people's community.

[@Darktrik001]

Yeah it's definitely hipsterish and likely outlandishly expensive having fixed it up and pushed out the people who couldn't pay. The irony is the people who did it for their trendy inner city living are probably Democrats who supposedly care.. but don't 😅🤷‍♀ I guess it's a lot nicer and safer but that came at a price in the wallet and the poor people

[@pattineedham9094]

Oh hell no!!!! I resided in Price Hill for over 15 years and moved away over 22 years ago. Cincinnati is one big liberal mess! Drugs, crime, tax dollars wasted on pure junk like a street car, a 48 million dollar below ground bus terminal, etc!!!

[@camerontaylor8599]

GOBLESS

[@nobleman_81]

You definitely know what your talking about. It looks good downtown and on the outside looking in...

[@jameswilliamw.741]

Life in a Warzone. No thx

[@beverlynelsin8833]

lil Mexico chilli place on 14 the and vine Tucker's on 13 street Ray's bar Ivy's bar bank cafe best food the Smitty's clothing's store polars bar my mom set in that bar from 6 am to 230 am why my grandma lay in her chair worried weather she wd come home or get killed so sad for yrs I hated that bar 1125 bar 1132 bar 927 bar Albert's store on vine and 13 the I'ma tell u it was a big mess but it was the only place u had to servive otr is a foreal history u can't for get belive that I know everything about otr I've got pictures of our in 1982

[@fastblack46]

Yeah y'all took OTR from the black people I think that's so damn sad I grew up in over-the-rhine I'm 56 years old I came to over-the-rhine when I was 7 years old y'all took everything we ever had down there it's sad. And you took my elementary school is so messed up every time I think about it how we was robbed y'all took y'all took our country now took our streets

[@kimsmith4085]

@@Susieque963 see how races that comment was that the White prevlige think thatcan and people of color should have no privilege. I wish yall quite posting this bullshit

[@dorothyrichardson2821]

I bet he just started coming down from the burns 🤔

[@dorothyrichardson2821]

The Suburbs

[@jacksoncurry4361]

OTR was alive & hustling in 40s 50s 60s.... fast forward to the 80s 90s all of that is gone... no one would even bother even goin down there due to the crime & run down feel... fast toward again to 2021... things are beginning to make return to when it was a working class neighborhood like back back in the day... a new abundance of small businesses & people investing their money into the area. I don’t know what their is to complain about... people are only trying to return OTR back to it’s hey day. Seem like You’d rather see OTR in the dumps then on top...... now dam that’s sad

[@xSINxDOVE]

Yea the liberal whites kicked out all the black people so they could build brewery’s. It’s a shame