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$750 / 100ft2 - Seeking housemate for beautiful home, util. included (Bloomfield)
Collins Ave., Bloomfield, NJ 07003
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The room measures 10x10 and is available for $750/mo. It has a ceiling fan, a closet, and a south-facing window, so you'll get plenty of sun. The room has a dresser and a mattress left over from a previous housemate that you can use if you'd like. Your rent includes all utilities (fast internet, reverse osmosis filtered water, gas and electric). There’s no central air, but we do have a spare window air conditioner you can use in the summer if you’d like. The room is for rent for one person, not a couple.
You'd have shared use of the kitchen, living room, dining room, and bathrooms, as well as a washer and dryer in the basement. The house has hardwood floors, a fireplace and a backyard with a patio and grill as well as a big, organic vegetable garden when the weather is nice. The kitchen has granite countertops and high-end appliances if you like to cook.
The house is on a tree-lined street in a quiet and safe neighborhood with mostly friendly neighbors and is close to Rt. 3 and the Garden State Parkway. It's a short walk to NYC-bound buses, and the train is also a short drive or shuttle ride away. By car, you can get to the city in as little as 20 minutes without traffic.
We’re close to Montclair, where there are tons of great restaurants and cultural activities, as well as Brookdale Park if you like to jog or ride a bike. We even have an extra bicycle you can use. It’s also close to Shoprite, Trader Joe's, Whole Foods, Costco and Target. There’s plenty of street parking. Keep in mind that this is the suburbs, so -- while it's theoretically possible to live here just using public transportation -- this is a neighborhood where it's much easier to get around (running errands, buying groceries, etc.) if you have a car.
As for the people you'd be living with, I'm a gay guy in my mid-40s who works from home or travels much of the time as a journalist, public radio reporter, and podcast producer. I also have a housemate who's in his early-40s and works at a hospital in the city and a third housemate who's a special ed teacher and who's really into martial arts.
We enjoy cooking and sometimes sharing meals as well as good conversations, and we have fairly eclectic tastes. We get along pretty well, and my housemates and I have in the past done things together like gone hiking, played board games, and worked on DIY home repairs. We try to have a somewhat green house by recycling and composting, conserving electricity and water, using eco-friendly cleaning products, and so forth, so we hope you’d be into that. We also do our best to maintain somewhat healthy and active lifestyles. We sometimes sign up for a CSA share, where we get organic produce deliveries from a local farm a couple times a month, in case you're interested in splitting that with us. Overall, we’re fairly quiet and laid back, and we're not really partiers, but we do sometimes like to have friends or neighbors over for dinner, homemade sushi, or a backyard barbecue.
We're looking for someone with a similar personality and interests who is neat, mature, and open-minded, who we can totally trust, and who would treat the house with care and respect, as if it were your own! For starters, that means helping out with chores like cleaning up after yourself, not leaving dishes in the sink, and taking out the trash when it's full. We also want someone who’s responsible and reliable. Beyond that, we’re looking for a housemate who’s proactive, aware, and considerate enough to handle things by yourself (especially if the rest of us are away) and care for the house / contribute to our household community without us always having to tell or remind you what to do. And someone who maintains basic levels of personal hygiene.
In addition, we're hoping to find someone who's friendly and social. This part is really important to us, cause we don’t want this to feel like a boarding house! That doesn't necessarily mean that we'll all hang out regularly as best friends, but if you tend to spend most of your time watching TV or playing video games or you're mainly just looking for a place to sleep and the only times we'd see you are when you come and go before disappearing into your room, this probably isn’t the best place for you. In short, we’re not just looking for someone we’d merely be content to live with. We’d ideally like to find someone we’re actually excited to have move in and with whom we feel a strong chemistry and compatibility Finally, we have a no shoe policy in the house, and we ask that people eat downstairs in the dining room instead of bringing meals up to their rooms.
Non-smokers / non-vapers only, and we're looking for someone to make at least a one year commitment. No drugs of any kind (including pot), excessive drinking, or furry pets. Security deposit equal to one month's rent required for move in and refunded when you leave (so total cost for move-in would be $1500).
If you're interested, please write and tell us a bit about yourself and what attracted you to our ad! If you simply send a one-line email saying “I’m interested in the room” or something like that, we’ll assume you haven’t read through all of this, and it’s unlikely we’ll respond!