Seeking two housemates for September
It turns out that I am looking for two housemates come September (there is some flexibility about dates). I would like help finding people! Here's an unlocked post you can link to! I have a much more detailed version in email that I can send to anyone who's interested.
I'll post separately to Facebook -- please don't link my LJ to Facebook or vice versa. This is the LJ version, so I'm not going to bother saying much about myself, since nothing I could write would be as useful as actually stalking me via my public posts.
2 rooms in a 3-bedroom apt., $950 / person, available September with some flexibility for moving stuff in ahead of time. October move-in potentially also viable. Five-minute walk from Davis Sq. Lots of space, lots of light, mostly quiet street.
Living and dining room, den-like room that a current tenant is paying to use as a study (this means we can temporarily have four people while everyone is coming and going; paying half the total to also have this room is an option). Hardwood floors. 1 1/2 bathrooms. Laundry in unit, portable dishwasher might be replaced by built-in one if kitchen gets renovated as promised by landlord. Landlord has been on a spree of being responsible and fixing things lately; hopefully this will keep up. This is a house built in 1910, though, and some things haven't been changed since.
Small front deck with access through den, larger back deck. I own a grill.
Both available rooms are in the 14' x 14' range, have okay closets (one is very big), and eaves access. During epic rains the basement gets epically flooded, so storing things down there is not advised.
Gets hot in summer, cold in winter. Steam heat with gas boiler. Electric system can handle ACs, but only with extreme care and creative use of extension cords to distribute load without blowing fuses. Gas plus electric has averaged $100 / person / month, but with enormous seasonal variance.
I like animals but am not sure yet how I feel about pets moving in. Landlord officially allows one cat. Current cat in residence belongs to an outgoing tenant; apartment can presumably be de-allergened. I have a lot of houseplants, some of which are toxic if eaten, so if pets do move in they would need to be able to tell food from non-food.
No smokers. I have food allergies and am not used to having a diet that overlaps with my housemates', so I would not expect to share food, and I might ask you to open the windows if you eat certain things. I don't drink; I expect roommates not to clog the fridge with bottles or make the apartment smell like bad alcohol, but I have no moral objections to it. I'm not very noisy, mostly.
The closest thing this apartment currently has to a widely-used name is probably "The Vale of Angry Squirrels". I don't know if that tells you anything or not. Sometimes there are actual angry squirrels in the tree next to the house, though. They look in the kitchen window at me while going "Chrrrr!", and I squirt them with a spray bottle. I think they secretly like it.
Here is a picture I took of an angry squirrel:
I'll post separately to Facebook -- please don't link my LJ to Facebook or vice versa. This is the LJ version, so I'm not going to bother saying much about myself, since nothing I could write would be as useful as actually stalking me via my public posts.
2 rooms in a 3-bedroom apt., $950 / person, available September with some flexibility for moving stuff in ahead of time. October move-in potentially also viable. Five-minute walk from Davis Sq. Lots of space, lots of light, mostly quiet street.
Living and dining room, den-like room that a current tenant is paying to use as a study (this means we can temporarily have four people while everyone is coming and going; paying half the total to also have this room is an option). Hardwood floors. 1 1/2 bathrooms. Laundry in unit, portable dishwasher might be replaced by built-in one if kitchen gets renovated as promised by landlord. Landlord has been on a spree of being responsible and fixing things lately; hopefully this will keep up. This is a house built in 1910, though, and some things haven't been changed since.
Small front deck with access through den, larger back deck. I own a grill.
Both available rooms are in the 14' x 14' range, have okay closets (one is very big), and eaves access. During epic rains the basement gets epically flooded, so storing things down there is not advised.
Gets hot in summer, cold in winter. Steam heat with gas boiler. Electric system can handle ACs, but only with extreme care and creative use of extension cords to distribute load without blowing fuses. Gas plus electric has averaged $100 / person / month, but with enormous seasonal variance.
I like animals but am not sure yet how I feel about pets moving in. Landlord officially allows one cat. Current cat in residence belongs to an outgoing tenant; apartment can presumably be de-allergened. I have a lot of houseplants, some of which are toxic if eaten, so if pets do move in they would need to be able to tell food from non-food.
No smokers. I have food allergies and am not used to having a diet that overlaps with my housemates', so I would not expect to share food, and I might ask you to open the windows if you eat certain things. I don't drink; I expect roommates not to clog the fridge with bottles or make the apartment smell like bad alcohol, but I have no moral objections to it. I'm not very noisy, mostly.
The closest thing this apartment currently has to a widely-used name is probably "The Vale of Angry Squirrels". I don't know if that tells you anything or not. Sometimes there are actual angry squirrels in the tree next to the house, though. They look in the kitchen window at me while going "Chrrrr!", and I squirt them with a spray bottle. I think they secretly like it.
Here is a picture I took of an angry squirrel: