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College Marketplace is the student-only buy and sell app for California Baptist University in Riverside, California. Every account is verified with a @calbaptist.edu email address, so you're only ever trading with other Lancers — not strangers from Facebook Marketplace or Craigslist.

First-year Lancers land in Simmons Hall, Smith Hall, Tower Hall, The Village, or The Cottages, while transfer and returning students move into The Colony, Magnolia Crossing, The Point, Lancer Arms, and University Place. CBU also requires single students under 21 — and anyone receiving more than $15,000 a year in institutional aid — to live on campus, so the residential population turns over every August and every May. That is a lot of furniture changing hands, and everything you need is already on campus. CBU students post mini fridges, futons, storage bins, desk lamps, monitors, bikes, and gently used textbooks every semester — usually for a fraction of retail.

Rooms arrive furnished. Every resident gets an extra-long twin bed, a desk, a chair, and a dresser or two, and Simmons and Smith rooms add an in-room sink and vanity area. Mattresses are twin XL at 36 by 80 inches, so standard twin sheets will not fit — buy the right size once and resell it when you graduate. Every unit has its own heating and cooling that residents control manually. Check the packing list before you shop, though: bed risers and loft kits are prohibited, mini fridges are capped at 3 cubic feet, and microwaves, air fryers, toasters, space heaters, and string lights are not allowed in the dorms. Beds in most buildings adjust between 6 and 30 inches of floor clearance, Simmons and Smith beds are fixed, and Residence Life will hand out bunking pins on request — but you supply your own ladder, safety rail, and mattress topper.

Meet up somewhere busy and central. The Alumni Dining Commons, the Annie Gabriel Library, the Recreation Center, Lancer Plaza, the Campus Store, and the CBU Events Center all work well — daylight, foot traffic, and a short walk from wherever you live. No shipping labels, no delivery fees, no meeting someone off campus.

Popular categories at CBU: textbooks and course materials · dorm and apartment furniture · mini fridges and microwaves · bikes and scooters · CBU apparel and game day gear · electronics and monitors · event tickets · lofting kits and bed risers · storage bins and organizers