<p>Are there any good websites to find houses/apartments/condos/townhouses for rent near the UC? Besides craigslist?</p>
<p>Depends on the UC. You may want to google your UC and apartments with varying word combos and see what come up. Some of them (eg. UCLA) have off campus housing websites “for students by students” that are pretty helpful. Just scope out what the options are via the websites before paying for a membership to something like WestsideRentals; you should be able to find plenty without paying for a membership anywhere. If worst comes to worst, copy-paste the names of the apartments on sites like that into Google and find more information on them that way.</p>