Now your decision to rent a new apartment home from BRG Apartments can do even more. During our Home Before the Holidays event, BRG will donate $50 to Fisher House, a charity supporting military and veterans families, with every new apartment rented.

So if you’re ready to join us, we’re ready to welcome you—and to help you share the season of giving with those less fortunate.

Move in before Jan. 11, 2019!

The holidays can be a hectic time of year, so we’ve made participating in the BRG Apartments Home Before the Holidays event easy! Just sign a 12-month lease and take occupancy no later than Jan. 11, 2019, and your rental will help another family in need.

Why is moving now the best time of year?

Winter can be a challenging time to consider a move, but there are several good reasons that make the holidays the perfect time to find your new home:

• Your dream apartment may catch the eye of fewer prospective renters! Because there are fewer people looking for apartment homes this time of year, finding the right apartment may not be as difficult—and when you do, you’ll have better likelihood of securing your rental agreement quickly and easily.
• A beautiful new home is a gift that keeps on giving. Your home should be a comfortable, safe space that supports your dreams. Your new BRG apartment can bring you closer to your work, school, shopping or needed services, helping to ease your commute—or perhaps bring you closer to family and friends. Especially during winter, finding an apartment that’s convenient to the things you value most, and that offers community or fitness amenities to help keep you healthy and engaged with others, is a great gift to yourself.
• You can start the New Year off right. There’s a certain magic to being in a new apartment home to start off a new year, and by participating in BRG Apartments’ Home Before the Holiday event, you can ring in 2019 knowing that you’ve helped another family, as well.

About Fisher House

Fisher House Foundation builds comfort homes where military & veterans families can stay free of charge, while a loved one is in the hospital. These homes are located at military and VA medical centers around the world, including Cincinnati and Dayton, OH. Families staying at Fisher Houses share a common kitchen, laundry facilities, a warm dining room and an inviting living room. Since inception, the program has saved military and veterans’ families an estimated $407 million in out of pocket costs for lodging and transportation.

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1. Batwing Peanut Butter Cups

For these fun and festive treats, assemble chocolate sandwich cookies, frosting, edible candy eyes and miniature peanut butter cups. First, remove any existing frosting from the backs of the sandwich cookies, then break each cookie side into two pieces, to create half-circle “bat wings.” Add a tiny bit of frosting to the cookies and affix the cookies to the unwrapped miniature peanut butter cups, rounded side up. Then just add two edible candy eyes and you’ve got a miniature bat party!

2. Monster Face Fruit Cups

Nothing could be easier than this! First, assemble a bowl full of grapes, several clear plastic juice cups, large marshmallows, and clear plastic wrap—and a black permanent marker. Then fill the bottom of each cup with a layer of grapes. Follow with two large marshmallows, placed on their side—these will be your monster’s “eyes”—and top with a final layer of grapes. Cover each plastic cup with plastic wrap, ideally the self-adhesive kind! Then it’s time to get creative. Draw funny faces on the side of the cup, making the marshmallows into googly-eyes and adding a goofy smile beneath.

3. Eye Popping Pudding Cups

Don’t put those plastic cups and markers away quite yet! Instead whip up several packets of colored pudding—ghostly white, ghoulish green, boo-tiful blue and pumpkin orange. Fill the clear plastic cups with the pudding, then use the markers to make spooky or funny faces on the sides of the plastic cups. For added interest, top the pudding cups in interesting ways—like using candy corn for ears or crushed chocolate cookies for a thick mop of hair. Have fun with it!

4. Wicked Witch’s Hats

At Halloween, you can never have too much chocolate. So gather the following for this indulgent treat: miniature unwrapped chocolate kisses, chocolate sandwich cookies (THIN Oreos® work best!), colored frosting (say, orange or green) and candy sprinkles. Assembly couldn’t easier: pipe a thin layer of frosting onto the cookie, press a chocolate kiss into the frosting, and dust with a layer of candy sprinkles! Hats off to you!

5. Spicy Sweet (c)Hex Mix

Okay, this one is for those of you who are truly looking for a last-minute save for your Halloween party—(c)Hex Mix for the win! Just purchase a bag of pre-made party mix (like Chex Mix®) and then add some Halloween delight: candy corn, unwrapped chocolate miniature candies or M&Ms, popcorn, nuts, whatever says Halloween to you! Bring this mix in a Halloween-themed bowl and some small plastic cups for serving and you’ll have your Halloween treat challenge solved.

This Halloween, don’t let a lack of time or cooking skills keep you from the neighborhood party—or better yet, throw a party yourself to meet the neighbors! Here’s wishing you a spooky good time.

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