Find off-campus housing

You can begin your search for off-campus housing by checking out websites such as

• SFU Off Campus Housing (not affiliated with SFU)
• Craigslist's housing listings (Burnaby is closest to the main campus; also see Surrey or Vancouver listings) 
• Kijiji's housing listings
• looking at newspaper ads
• checking notice boards around campus
  
• asking other students about vacancies (try our grad students Facebook group)
  

SFU does not pre-screen ads for off-campus housing, so it is your responsibility to check out the listings carefully. Note that there are rental scams -- here's a description of how some of them work -- http://vancouvercondo.info/2008/03/beware-the-craigslist-rental-scam.html.

Do familiarize yourself with the BC Residential Tenancy Act before signing a lease, particularly the Tenant Survival Guide at http://www.tenants.bc.ca/main/?tenantSurvivalGuide.

Finally, here's a google map of Metro Vancouver, with a driving route connecting the 3 campuses — http://at.sfu.ca/OBaiAj — you can plug in addresses for housing you're looking at to see how long the commute would be.

You do pay for an all-access transit pass (U-Pass) as part of your student fees. To help you plan your commute from off-campus housing, see the system maps for public transit: http://www.translink.ca/en/Schedules-and-Maps/System-Maps.aspx