Apartment opening in nearby Porter Square (x-post)

[rigel.livejournal.com]

Cross-posted to many Boston and Camberville groups, as well as my personal LJ.

Singularity, our amazing Porter Square apartment, is looking for one more friendly, responsible, geeky housemate to fill out the apartment as of 9/1/2009! Do those terms fit you or someone you know? If so, please contact us!



The Apartment
As mentioned, Singularity is a gorgeous second floor apartment in the heart of Porter Square. We've lived here in some configuration or another for something like seven years now, and have an excellent relationship with the landlord. Presently, the rent in the rooms opening up ranges from high 600s to mid 700s a month.

More about the apartment . . .

• Location - The house is on a quiet tree-lined street off of Elm Street, the main thoroughfare between Porter and Davis Square. The walk from here to Porter is a bit over five minutes.
• Space and Amenities - We have a nice-sized living room and dining room, a big kitchen with modern amenities including a fairly new stove and a dishwasher, and a free washer and dryer in the basement. We also have two porches in good repair that have served us well in social situations.
• Furnishings - Most of the common rooms will be pre-furnished with our things, but we'd love additions to the place! Come see; it's pretty swank.
• Landlord - The landlord only owns this property. He's kind, respectful, attentive, timely and cares a lot about his tenants; he's offered us a lower rent (the price listed is the lower price) than he would offer to new people, and he's had us over for dinner a few times in the seven years we've lived here.
• Geekery - The apartment would come with everything we own, including a full entertainment system (with Playstation III, XBox 360 with Rock Band 2, and Wii), a laser printer and tons of board / card games, and wired and wireless Internet options.
• Misc. - No pets. No smoking, even on the porches; you'll be asked to do it on the curb.

The Tenants
We're all young professionals (a coder, and an admin for a video game company) or graduate students (in library science). We all enjoy the arts (acting, writing), cooking, recreational gaming (board / card games and so on) and general puttering around on the Internet. We also have individual interests: Beobai likes cooking, rigel is (temporarily) part of a work a capella group, and so on.


You!
We're looking for someone who . . .

• Pays rent and other bills on time, and takes responsibility for managing the cost breakdown of one utility in the house.
• Keeps the apartment clean. We're not obsessive about it, but we like to think of our place as a home as much as possible, and that includes keeping it tidy. Feel free to check our posted chores list for more information.
• Is open-minded! There's a reasonable amount of bi/gay and/or poly within our housemate set, and we prefer to live with people who are comfortable with that.
• Is communicative. We try to address any house concerns in a forthright, tactful manner that respects everyone's perspectives, and we expect the same behavior from our housemates.
• Preferably, is geeky and somewhat social. If you prefer to keep to yourself or aren't into what we're into, that's totally fine. But we welcome those who indulge in our hobbies and would enjoy our occasional get-togethers.

So, that's us. If this sounds like your cup of tea, please feel free to reply to us here or ask us for an e-mail address at which to contact us. Thanks for reading, and we look forward to hearing from you!

Comments

Re: Openminded?

[wavilyem.livejournal.com]

I think if you knew me well, you would have also known I have a very dry sense of humor (even though my intended ratio of sarcasm to seriousness doesn't always come across in print-only media) and am not one to troll a la turil.

Re: Openminded?

[rigel.livejournal.com]

I never said I knew you well, just that I recognized you. :)

And it's really hard for dry sarcasm to convey properly over text. If it was intended as sarcasm, my apologies! It really wasn't clear to me.