Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!ucbcad!ucbvax!cbosgd!mark From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP Newsgroups: net.followup,net.college,net.news.group Subject: Re: Berkeley housing info wanted Message-ID: <63@cbosgd.UUCP> Date: Fri, 24-Jun-83 17:09:29 EDT Article-I.D.: cbosgd.63 Posted: Fri Jun 24 17:09:29 1983 Date-Received: Mon, 27-Jun-83 17:55:00 EDT Lines: 29 If you ever log in at Berkeley and read msgs, you'll find that nearly half the messages are of the form "I need a place to live". Every once in a while you see "house to sublet for summer costing $1000/month". I don't know if these people get any replies, but I know people with apartments to rent don't have any trouble finding tenents. The vacancy rate in Berkeley is always under 1%. If you are looking for housing for next fall at UCB, I urge you to go out there NOW and find some. September will be too late, and you'll wind up scrambling with large numbers of other people. The housing office keeps listings, but you have to show up in person and present proof you're a student or will be to look at them. The listings from any given morning are often all gone by noon. If you happen to be married, apply in April for married student housing. It's a good deal (or was before they started raising the rents to subsidize the new single student dorms) but has a long waiting list. If you apply now I don't know if you'll get to the front of the list by fall. As to a newsgroup, there is already a ucb.housing, but this doesn't help new people trying to get out there. I doubt the rest of the net would be as interested, since other campuses aren't nearly as hard to find housing. Of course, if I'm wrong and there is interest, great. I wonder if some impoverished student at Berkeley wants to make a few bucks and do some local legwork for people who can't go out there? Mark Horton