For the past several weeks, I’ve been looking for housing in or near Santa Monica. I’m not picky. I’ll take pretty much anything. So that has given me a lot of options. And the fact that I was looking so early seems to have made things harder, because many of the places I looked at were taken before the date I wanted to move in. I want to move in tomorrow, May 29, 2007. It’s a short term deal. I’m just looking to get one room for three months, and I don’t care whether I have a roommate (I somewhat prefer one so that we can split the rent). Here’s where I’ll be going every day:
Somewhere near that spot would be ideal. I’m looking at a number of options, but my backup is to stay with a friend until he moves out with the end of school at UCLA. To do anything else has become a bit more complicated. I follow up with random scattered leads on craigslist (and there are a lot of them), but I can’t help but wonder: is this the best way to do things?
There should be a better way to find housing.
Sublet.com is not free. I assumed it was, and spent some time searching for stuff. Then it asked me for registration, which costs $55 for 90 days of access. Not recommended. Their web search system is really clunky, too.
If you have an idea, please leave a comment.
