OT: University of San Francisco HELP!

by bayhey on Jul 29, 2010 2:27 PM PDT

Hey guys. Long time reader but this is my first time posting. I’m transferring to USF from Orange County this upcoming semester. I’m looking to move into the city in the next couple of weeks and I still don’t have a place to live. Seeing as I will be a junior, I wasn’t really feeling the whole living in the dorms situation. I’ve been scouring craigslist looking for a room to rent but I still don’t have anything lined up. Does anyone have any advice on what I could be looking into aside from craigslist? Any rental agencies near campus? I’d like to live as close to campus as possible.

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated! Thanks guys.

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The dorms aren’t bad at all.

My fianceé lived close to Geary and 22nd while attending USF. It’s easy access to the 31, 5, and 38 buses. You’ll have to walk a bit from the 38. Finding parking was the major issue living around there.

I recommend the dorms since you’ll have access to thr computer lab and library.

Let me know if you have any other questions. I know that school pretty well.

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by SoFa King Mike on Jul 29, 2010 5:43 PM PDT reply actions

Fianceé?

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by GovernorStephCurry on Jul 29, 2010 10:33 PM PDT up reply actions

I was just up there with my son checking it out as a possibility.
They told us parking was on a lottery system and only if you lived 3 miles away or more.
The school seemed very nice, but sort of small for a University — which is okay if that’s what you are looking for.
It was on the top of the city!
I’d probably recommend working with the admissions office (if they are willing) to help you find living arrangements. I noticed bulletin boards around campus with apartments for rent (be prepared for SF prices…).
Have a great time there.

by Talkin_Base_Ball on Jul 29, 2010 8:39 PM PDT reply actions

I wish I could help

But I can’t

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by GrahamCrakalaka on Jul 30, 2010 1:51 AM PDT reply actions

I wish I could go back to college and do it all over again

But I can’t

by Talkin_Base_Ball on Jul 31, 2010 8:12 AM PDT up reply actions

Nothing wrong with dorms. I lived in one all 4 years of college.

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by say hey nation on Jul 30, 2010 7:16 AM PDT reply actions

Back in the dinosaur days when I went to college there was a housing office on campus.They had all sorts of options. I don’t know what budget cuts may have done to such programs, but check that option out.

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by Merope on Jul 30, 2010 8:29 AM PDT reply actions

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back when I went to college in NYC my method was to go to the housing office, and meet people who were unhappy with the limited choices and neighborhoods the office approved of, meet somebody in the same boat, and go rent in the slums together at an affordable price. East Second and Avenue B, 45 minute walk to NYU

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by foothillsfan on Aug 1, 2010 8:56 AM PDT up reply actions

Welcome to the Neighborhood!

I live within the USF catchment area and can tell you it’s an excellent place to live.

I’d recommend scouring Craigslist for roomies at the school or with people who live in the area. Areas around USF fall under a lot of different location subheaders including “Western Addition / NOPA” (the area east of the school to Divis / Alamo square), USF / Panhandle (largely overlaid with the previous neighborhood, but includes areas north of the Panhandle but south of the school), Inner Richmond (north and west of the school), and Haight Ashbury (South and west of the school but below the panhandle). And of those areas would make attending school walkable.

My short conversations with USF students has revealed that dorms are equal or more expensive to living off campus. However, most of these kids were drunk, so take it with a grain of salt.

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by grape on Jul 30, 2010 11:26 AM PDT reply actions

See, I would live in the dorms if I could at this point. Unfortunately, they are all filled up for this semester. It seems I’m stuck with scouring craigslist at this point.

Grape: Thanks for the warm welcome! The drunk kids you speak of are right — of campus housing and housing in the dorms pretty much equate to the same total cost (depending upon how you choose to live off-campus, of course).

by bayhey on Jul 30, 2010 11:30 AM PDT reply actions

If you do get a chance to get into housing later on in your academic year, it’s not a bad arrangement. I can’t speak of USF’s housing in particular, but I lived in the student apartments at San Jose State last year and I’m going back for the upcoming academic year in August. I really like living on campus. I live in a five-bedroom apartment with four other women and it works out fine. I’m 28 and I need my space too, so I feel you on being apprehensive about that. As for cost, it’s pricey but for all the stuff I get (cable, internet, student health center, fitness center access) with my rent it’s worth it to me.

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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 30, 2010 1:49 PM PDT up reply actions