The Claremont Colleges maintain a Real Estate and Housing Office that coordinates information on available off campus housing. Conveniently, the office is directly across Dartmouth Avenue from the Libra Complex. The services that they offer include a listing of apartment complexes near the colleges, including address, phone number, distance from the campuses, number of bedrooms available, amenities and price range. This list should be a starting point for looking for an apartment around Mudd, though it really is most applicable to people who have access to a car.

Online, you can go to apartmentratings.com to get further info and reviews of Claremont apartment complexes.
 
If you won’t have a car
If you won't have a car while you live off campus, you should still head over to the Real Estate and Housing Office. The office is the contact place for landlords offering places for students (and faculty and staff) to rent. These include rooms in someone's home, small apartments above garages and full houses with backyards and gardeners. Many of these available places are in the Village and some may be up in our corner of town—within walking distance.

Another possibility to find easily accessible places is through the local newspaper classified advertisements. The Inland Valley Daily Bulletin maintains a searchable classified section that lists apartments and houses for rent in the area. The Claremont Courier also publishes classified ads for rental spaces. If you're on campus, the Dean of Students Office often puts copies of the Courier on the credenza in the Platt hallway between the courtyard and the mailroom stairs.

For those looking only for apartments near campus, there are two most likely candidates: Padua Terrace and Brighton Park. Both are directly across Foothill Avenue from campus, with Padua Terrace as close to morning classes as Linde Dorm. Brighton Park is a rock throw further, but has lots of apartments that should come open on a regular basis. Walk over and speak with the managers. Brighton Park also has a listing on apartmentguide.com (type in keyword "Brighton Park") that includes costs, amenities, photos, and floor plans.

If you will have a car
People who will have access to transportation and are willing to live further from campus of course have a much wider choice of places. If you're researching housing while away from campus, you can begin with the CGU/CUC listing of apartment complexes noted above, or you can poke around on some of the housing sites on the Web. These include apartmentguide.com, apartmentratings.com and forrent.com. If you want to find a roommate, you can try roommateaccess.com.

If you're around here, simply driving around the surrounding area to check out the available places, how they look, and how far they are from campus works quite well. In Upland, there are several apartment complexes on Foothill just east of Benson Avenue (Wal-Mart), as well as on Arrow Route between Central and Mountain Avenues. These are all within two miles of campus and are even bike-able on a regular basis.

Rental Information
Several websites have good information for students in the off-campus housing rental process, including our own Real Estate and Housing Office. If you'd like the real, official story on the "rights and responsibilities of tenants and landlords," the state of California has a very nice publication on it.

Otherwise, Guy Gerbick, the dean of residential life, can provide personal insight on the apartment hunting process in Claremont and Upland. He's done four apartment searches and lived in four different complexes.