But you were still too late for the infamous Barrington Hall[0]. When I first arrived in Berkeley in the early 1980s, a hitchhiker from Europe who had traveled across the country with me somehow immediately found Barrington as a place where he could crash for a week while he visited the area, this was pre-internet times of course.
One of the stated reasons one of the houses in the article was eliminated was because it let a nonstudent crash there, and my own house constantly had issues with the administration over the same thing.
[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrington_Hall_(Berkeley,_Cal...