Hi there! I'm a second-year Bioengineering PhD student at Stanford, and my current housemate is moving to SF so I'm looking for a new housemate to share my simple 2 bedroom / 1 bathroom apartment in Menlo Park on Alice Ln, near Middle Ave & University Drive. The value of this apartment is in its quietness and extremely convenient location near campus if you bike as your primary way of getting around.
ABOUT YOU:
- You're looking for a long-term lease of at least 6 months. Ideally you're looking to stay until at least June 2020 or August/September 2020, or maybe even longer.
- You can move in sometime between the last week of September and the middle of October. There is flexibility within that date range, but my housemate will not be moving out before the last week of September.
- You can be of any gender, as long as you respect LGBT people and are fine sharing an apartment with me, a nonbinary person who is usually perceived as male but also slightly gender non-conforming.
- You don't smoke.
ABOUT THE LOCATION:
- This location is ideal for biking to/from the west part of the Stanford campus: it takes 12 minutes to bike to the Medical School Campus and just 2 more minutes to bike to the Science and Engineering Quad. I bike this route twice daily - it's a combination of bike lanes and quiet residential streets, so it's safe to bike.
- It's a 10-minute bike ride to either the Menlo Park Caltrain station or the Palo Alto Caltrain station. If you're a Stanford student/postdoc/employee, this makes it easy to take advantage of Stanford's free Caltrain Go Pass, e.g. to go up to SF or down to Mountain View.
- You won't need a car for groceries: it's a 5-minute bike ride to Safeway or an 8-minute bike ride to Trader Joe's.
- The apartment building (which has 2 other units) and the surrounding neighborhood are safe and quiet.
ABOUT THE APARTMENT:
- 1 unfurnished bedroom with a walk-in closet is available in a 2 BR / 1 BA apartment unit.
- The rental rate this year is $1470 per month per bedroom, which is the rate set by my landlord. This is something we can negotiate on, however.
- We will split the utilities and internet bills evenly - it averages out to roughly $60 per person per month in the summer, and roughly $90 per person per month in the winter.
- In the kitchen we will share a stove, a combination refrigerator/freezer, a microwave, a rice cooker, and a toaster oven. We will evenly split fridge/freezer space.
- The living room is basically empty, so there is plenty of space for anything you want to put there. If you want to buy furniture to make it less empty, we can split the costs of that. Or you can use the space to store stuff.
- There is free laundry on-site.
- There is a carport parking space reserved for us (i.e. for you, since I don't drive), and the carport area has a closet where you can store your bike.
ABOUT ME:
- I'm a quiet and warm/friendly Asian American nonbinary person in my mid-20s. I go by they/them pronouns, though most people refer to me with he/him pronouns.
- I hang out with my friends elsewhere, and I don't invite people over or host social things in the apartment. If you'd like to invite people over, that's perfectly fine as long as we're quiet and respectful of our downstairs neighbors.
- I'm out of the apartment much of the time, either on campus or (sometimes for weeks at a time) doing fieldwork for my research. When I'm in the apartment, I'm just in my room.
- I don't smoke.
ABOUT US:
- We'll communicate to figure out how we can best respect each other's needs, wishes, boundaries, etc.
- We'll get to know each other at whatever your comfort level is, so that we can practice good communication and trust needed to coexist in a shared apartment.
- We will work together to find a mutually-agreed-upon level of cleanliness to maintain in the shared spaces, and we will share the work needed to keep them clean.
If you're interested, email me and we can discuss further and/or arrange a tour!
