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From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Berkeley housing info wanted
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Date: Fri, 24-Jun-83 17:09:29 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 24 17:09:29 1983
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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