Unless you know people up here then your best bet is look for temporary housing for a few weeks while you drive around and look for places via craigslist/simila

Unless you know people up here then your best bet is look for temporary housing for a few weeks while you drive around and look for places via craigslist/similar. Areas are notorious for having very high housing prices for crappy places that just have a fresh coat of paint on them, so looking on internet only without site visits is not a great option. I spent one month looking for a place in Mountain View and found that renting a condo from an owner turned out to be better all around than trying to find a suitable apartment complex. Another problem is that decent housing is super competitive here, a reasonable rental purchase will get replies almost immediately, so owners will prefer to deal with local people than those farther away to close the deal.