2+BR Apt Available Sept. 1. $1500+. Let ME be your Landlord!

[wobblymusic.livejournal.com]

Deets below the cut.

• Lower unit of owner-occupied Philadelphia style two family home available September first.


• Living Room, Kitchen (with large walk-in Pantry), Bathroom, Bedroom, Dining Room (could be used as Bedroom) all on first floor. Stairwell inside unit leads to additional second floor Bedroom. Six rooms total (including bath).


• Laundry and additional storage in basement.


• Porch in front. Patio & small landscaped yard in back.


• Lots of original 1920s detail. Wood floors. Clawfoot tub. Moulding around doors, etc. is mostly varnished, not painted.


• Quiet street. Less than 10 minutes walk to Porter and Davis squares.


• Plentiful resident-only on-street parking. Tandem parking in driveway available for small additional fee (tenant's car always in front).


• Utilities -- Gas stove and hot water. Oil heat (new furnace installed in 2003).


• No dogs. Would prefer no pets, but will consider non-canines on a case-by-case basis.


• No more than two people living in the apartment, couples preferred. Non-smokers only.
  


• $1500/month + utilities. Driveway parking an additional $100/month.

Feel free to write back via email if you have any questions or if you'd like to schedule a viewing. I'll also try to answer any questions below.

[August 1 edit: I have found tenants! Thank you, all!]

Comments

[talonvaki.livejournal.com]

More landlords should.

People can smell up and damage an apartment, never mind pets. I've seen apartments that smelled permanently of bacon grease no matter how you cleaned it. And that's not even including the obvious, smoking (which doesn't seem to be prohibited).

I gave my landlord a "pet resume" and even though he didn't allow pets, he made an exception which, 8 years later, he hasn't regretted. The only damage any pet has ever caused to an apartment I've lived in was to my own property (namely, barfing on my papers).

Of course, I am talking about cats, here, and you do say you'll at least consider "non-canines."

[noradeirdre.livejournal.com]

Smoking appears to be verboten, it's in the bullet point about the 2 people only, preferably couples.

waves to Jon

[dominika-kretek.livejournal.com]

I have often thought it odd that landlords who get bent out of shape about pets often forget to stick a ban on smoking into their lease.

[m00n.livejournal.com]

Part of the reason I brought this up in the first place is that it seems like a lot of landlords just ban pets outright without even considering the possibility and never having had an actual bad experience. They're probably thinking "better safe than sorry" without stopping to consider that they're basically cutting their customer base in half (since they may never hear from the people who have pets in the first place).

[wobblymusic.livejournal.com]

I have known cats, like talonvaki's, that were extremely well behaved. I have also known cats that marked their territory at every opportunity. I have never been to an apartment with a dog that did not, at least a little, smell like dog.

waves back to Nora

waves to Coco, even though she may still hate me

[talonvaki.livejournal.com]

May...or may not.