Monthly housing rentals

People seeking short term housing (or any type of housing) may check the University's Cal Rentals website to determine eligibility for services: www.calrentals.housing.berkeley.edu. If unsure about eligibility, send an inquiry to homeinfo[AT]berkeley.edu. Generally, one must be a UC Berkeley student, employee or visitor here on official status (post doc, visiting scholar, sabbatical visitor) to be eligible. An exception is in the summer months: non-UC Berkeley students are eligible to obtain the student summer sublets if they are attending summer session, doing summer work in the Bay Area or simply vacationing here over the summer. Likewise, professional people or academics who are here to get training, work or teach over the summer may obtain the Faculty/Staff sublets.

If you have no UC affiliation but would still like to get the rental listings, you may join the California Alumni Association as a "friend of UC Berkeley": one of the benefits of membership is eligibility to obtain the Faculty and Staff listings. There is a fee for both the Alumni Association membership as well as the listing services.

We stayed at the Coral Reef Motel/Suites in Alameda last December for about 3 weeks in between a house sale and purchase. We had a one bedroom suite with full kitchen (fridge, oven, stove, pots/pans/dishes, but no microwave). The bedroom had a queen-size bed and they gave us a roll-away for the kids (2 pre-schoolers) to sleep on (though it usually ended up that my husband got the roll-away!) The suites are a little more expensive than the motel rooms, which also have a kitchenette area. I believe the motel rooms have two queen beds. The motel staff were really nice and accommodating. There's an outdoor swimming pool and coin laundry on site. It's located .5 block from the beach and across the street from the South Shore Shopping Center. My only complaints were that 1) even though our room was non-smoking, we could smell the cigar smoke from the room next door, and 2) the carpets were really dirty. We didn't complain about these things, but I'm sure the staff would have done what they could to fix it if we had. I think we paid about $620+tax per week. The other clientele seemed to be vacationers, folks on business, and the flight crew for the Met Life blimp. If you need a short-term place with a kitchen, I'd recommend that you check it out.

Summer Sublets at UC Village

For Albany Village available summer sublets contact the Apartment Assignments office at 642-4109. If you find a sublet on your own, have the tenant call the assignments office so a sublease agreement can be drawn up to protect YOU. Lots of "illegal" sublets turn into disasters here for the subletees.