Eastside Station, Austin (1700 E 4th St, 78702): Current Rent, Fees, and Where the Listings Disagree

Pricing and Real Move-In Cost

The lowest available unit today is an income-restricted studio, floor plan S1B, at $1,311 a month for 560 sq ft. At market rate, the cheapest studio, S1A, runs $1,496 to $1,511 a month for 552 sq ft. The most common one-bedroom layout, A1G at 778 sq ft, has 16 units listed between $1,780 and $1,944 a month, with the lowest currently available unit priced at $1,785 and move-in available now. Two-bedrooms start at $2,485 a month for 992 sq ft.

Every other aggregator quotes a different headline number for the same address. ApartmentHomeLiving lists studios from $1,355. RentCafe and Apartment Finder both list studios from $1,574. ApartmentList lists a building-wide floor of $1,528. None of these figures is wrong exactly. Each reflects a different day’s feed and a different mix of which unit happened to be cheapest that day, since availability turns over daily on a 330-unit building. Treat any headline number older than a few days as a starting point to verify, not a quote.

How much does it actually cost to move in beyond the first month’s rent? Based on the only sourced fee figures available: a $75 application fee per applicant and a $175 one-time admin fee, plus $500 up front if you have a pet and $35 a month in pet rent going forward. Apartments.com’s fee disclosure states its published figures may exclude fees for mandatory or optional services, so ask the leasing office directly for the complete current fee schedule before you budget a final number.

Table 1: Sourced fees at Eastside Station

The gap between this table and a full accounting of monthly cost is real: no source I could find, including the property’s fee module, publishes a mandatory monthly amenity or package fee for this address. If one exists, it is not public. Budget for the rows above and ask about anything not listed here before you sign.

An income-restricted floor plan is worth knowing about even if you doubt you would qualify: the S1B Affordable studio at $1,311 a month sits roughly $185 to $260 below the building’s market-rate studios. Apartments.com’s own affordability guidance, spending no more than 30% of gross income on rent, puts the qualifying income around $52,440 a year for that unit specifically. A separate listing states a flat 3x-rent household income rule, and another states a 2.25x-rent minimum for the applicant with a 6x-rent guarantor option. Those are not the same standard: 3x rent on a $1,780 unit is roughly $64,000 a year, while 2.25x is closer to $48,000. Ask which rule the leasing office is actually applying to your file. A $16,000 gap in required income is not a rounding error.

For context, Apartments.com’s own area comparison puts the Plaza Saltillo neighborhood average at $1,406 for a studio and $1,805 for a one-bedroom, against an Austin-wide average of $1,201 and $1,385. Eastside Station’s market-rate one-bedrooms sit close to the neighborhood average and clearly above the citywide one.

Location, Walkability, and Noise

The property sits a four-minute walk from the Plaza Saltillo MetroRail Red Line station, per Walk Score’s own measurement, and 0.2 mile, a 3-minute walk, per Apartments.com’s transit module. The two figures describe the same walk measured slightly differently, not a contradiction. From there it is roughly 5 to 8 minutes by rail to downtown Austin at rush hour.

Is the walk score 80, 94, or something else? Both numbers are real and measure different things. Walk Score’s own site puts this address at 94 out of 100, a Walker’s Paradise rating on its proprietary distance-to-amenities scale. Apartments.com displays a separate 80-out-of-100 Walkability figure sourced from Local Logic, a different provider using its own methodology. Treat 94 as the walking-distance-to-errands number and 80 as a broader local-access score. Neither one is a typo of the other.

Table 2: Location and noise scores by named source

Metric	Source	Score	What it measures
Walk Score	Walk Score	94 / 100	Distance to daily errands on foot
Walkability	Local Logic, via Apartments.com	80 / 100	Broader local access index
Transit	Local Logic, via Apartments.com	70 / 100	Access to public transportation
SoundScore	HowLoud, via Apartments.com	72 / 100	Aggregated traffic, airport, and business noise

The SoundScore breaks down as Traffic: Active, Airport: Calm, Businesses: Active, HowLoud’s own labels rather than a single blended number. Traffic: Active most plausibly reflects the building’s frontage on E 4th Street, since the MetroRail line runs at grade a block over rather than past the building itself. If ground-floor traffic noise from E 4th Street would bother you, ask specifically for a unit on the interior courtyard-facing side or a higher floor instead of a street-facing lower unit. The property does not publish a per-unit noise map, so this is a question for the leasing office, not something you can verify from listing photos alone.

Management and What’s Actually Verifiable

Eastside Station is currently managed by Olympus Property, confirmed directly on both its Apartments.com listing and its HAR.com listing as of this writing. That was not always the operator: an archived Yelp business page for the same address, dated 2022, is titled “Eastside Station by Bell Partners,” independently corroborating at least one prior management company distinct from today’s.

What changed with property management, and does it matter? The verifiable fact is a current-to-past change: Olympus Property manages the building today; a 2022-dated business listing shows Bell Partners managing it previously. A locator-agency site not affiliated with the property additionally reports a longer chain, RangeWater, then Mill Creek Residential, then Bell Partners, then Olympus, with the most recent handoff dated March 2026, but that fuller chain and its dates come from a single source I could not independently confirm against a press release or trade publication. Treat the Olympus-is-current fact as solid and the older chain as plausible but unverified.

A management change matters for a renter mainly because service quality and staff continuity often reset with it: whoever handled maintenance requests or security complaints under a previous operator may not be the same team fielding them under a new one. If a review site’s account of unresponsive management is more than a year or two old, it may already describe a different company than the one you would actually be leasing from.

Before You Apply: Fit Check and Known Conflicts

Does Eastside Station have in-unit laundry? The property’s Apartments.com listing contradicts itself on this. Its FAQ states plainly that Eastside Station “does not offer in-unit laundry or shared facilities.” A few paragraphs above that, the same listing’s Unique Features section lists “Full-Sized Washer and Dryer” with a footnote reading “Only available in select apartments.” Read together, the honest answer is that some units have an in-unit washer and dryer and some do not, and the FAQ’s blanket no is simply wrong as a property-wide statement. Nearly every other listing site, including Zillow, PadMapper, RentDeals, and HAR, states in-unit laundry is available, which lines up with “select apartments have it,” not with the FAQ’s flat denial. Confirm laundry in writing for the specific unit you are offered, since the two most detailed sections on the same page disagree with each other.

This building suits someone who prioritizes walking or rail access over guaranteed quiet: the SoundScore data above flags active street-level and business noise, and a Walker’s Paradise location by definition means more foot and vehicle traffic passing the building, not less. It is a weaker fit if in-unit laundry is a hard requirement rather than a nice-to-have, since you cannot be certain of it from the listing without confirming the specific unit. The qualifying-income spread described in the pricing section above is also worth resolving before you apply, not after: get the exact multiplier in writing, since a wrong assumption there can mean paying a $75 application fee for a unit you were never going to qualify for.

How It Compares to Nearby East Austin Options

Table 3: Comparable 78702 properties

Property	Starting price band	Standout differentiator	Best for
Eastside Station (1700 E 4th St)	$1,311 to $2,659/mo	Closest MetroRail access in this set, a 4-minute walk to Plaza Saltillo	Rail commuters who can tolerate street noise
7East (2025 E 7th St)	Roughly $1,375 to $3,338/mo for one-bedrooms; a separate source lists studios from $2,300	Walk Score of 93, rooftop pool deck	Renters prioritizing amenities over rail access
Residences at Saltillo (1211 E 5th St)	$1,299 to $2,786/mo	Built 2019, directly above a Target and Whole Foods	Renters who want groceries in-building over quiet
AMLI Eastside (1000 San Marcos St)	$1,102 to $3,772/mo	Widest published price range in the set	Renters who want the broadest unit-size options at one address

Prices above are each source’s most recent published range and will drift. Verify current numbers the same way you would verify Eastside Station’s, since every property in this table shows the same day-to-day feed variation described earlier in this article.

Quick Facts

Built in 2016, the building holds 330 units across 4 stories according to Apartments.com and Apartment Finder, though HAR.com’s listing states 329, a one-unit difference not resolved by any source. Pets are allowed under the fee schedule in the pricing section above. Current management is Olympus Property.