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Pick a flow. Every Cal listing is from a verified student or vetted landlord.
Cal students live in Berkeley.
Crashmates connects verified Cal students across Berkeley, CA (ZIP 94720). Whether you are looking for Cal housing near campus, off-campus housing near Cal, or rooms for rent in Berkeley, every listing is from a student verified through their @berkeley.edu email. The platform covers Berkeley and the surrounding Alameda County area. Crashmates makes finding Cal subleases, lease takeovers, and roommate matches faster than Craigslist, Facebook groups, or paid subscription apps, because every profile is verified before it is visible to other students.
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The Cal roommate flow.
From signup to your first match in about 5 minutes.
Verify your @berkeley.edu email
Sign up with your Cal email address. We send a verification code, you click it, and our IPEDS cross-check confirms you’re really at Cal in about 30 seconds.
Build a Cal profile
Answer eight quick lifestyle questions (sleep schedule, cleanliness, social habits, budget, target move-in). Add a photo or two and your Berkeley neighborhood preferences. Done in about 4 minutes.
Match with verified Cal students
Browse profiles ranked by compatibility, like the ones you vibe with, and when it’s mutual the chat opens. Skip the cold spam. Skip the bots. Just real Cal students looking for a roommate near Berkeley or wherever you’re moving.
What Roomster gets wrong at Cal.
Other roommate apps don’t verify students. Roomster charges every Cal student a subscription to message profiles — most of which are bots or scammers operating outside the US. Bunky doesn’t verify .edu emails at all and doesn’t carry housing listings. Facebook Cal groups are full of brokers and fake posts. Craigslist is a privacy nightmare. Crashmates was built specifically for the Cal community: only students with a verified @berkeley.edu email can join, browsing and matching are free forever, and you only pay credits when you choose to send the first message — no subscriptions, no auto-renewals, no $30/month surprises. Cal students looking for verified students near me, Berkeley roommates near me, or Cal housing near campus get the cleanest signal of any roommate app on the market.
Real Cal reviews.
“Lease takeover saved me $3k in early termination. Posted Monday, signed Thursday.”
“Verified my @edu in 20 seconds. Met three potential roommates the same week.”
“Got matched with someone whose schedule actually matched mine. The compatibility scoring is sharp.”
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