Apartment Hunting...

green-aw-lives
Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:33:54 +0000

Hey, I am a first-year currently living in Unit 1. I have a friend who is interested in rooming with me next year. We want an apartment, and were hoping to get some advice on the whole process of nailing the “perfect” place.

We broke down what we needed to do in several steps:

Establish what we want - an apartment/studio for two people, on the Southside of Berkeley, only a few blocks from campus, parking for a car.
Find what we want - Craigslist, housing.berkeley.edu (anywhere else?)
Establish a connection with the apartment’s manager
Tours, forms, financial info, references, deposits, contract
We made it!
(anything missing?)


Although we think this 5-6 step process looks full-proof, my friend and I still are not sure about a few things:

Financial Aid: when exactly do we receive funds to pay for housing, beginning of the semester, or a monthly installment thing?
When is the ideal time to move in? We have been running into apts that ask us to move in as soon as May, ah!
Anything else we need to look out for?


Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!