Housing near berkeley

undecided
Tue, 09 Jan 2007 13:20:48 +0000

If you do do summer session, a lot of apartments go up around May, end of April. You should probably give yourself 1-2 months before you plan to move in when you’re looking for stuff – longer, if you can swing it. Occasionally people post far in advance of when they’re looking to fill a space (for example, I found an apartment for spring semester that was advertised in August), but the majority of people post about 1.5 months in advance of the beginning of the lease (for example, for leases beginning May 15, the ad goes up about the first week of April).

For fall semester, you may want to keep an eye on ads during the summer. Because Berkeley is a college town, many students live on school term leases. Things become open around the same time. There will probably be a surge of student-friendly leases opening up around June/July.