Cozy House For Academics & Others (Shared Housing)

SPACIOUS House Share in GREEN, Artsy, Peaceful home

Private room in a Mature, Arts, Yoga 1904 Home, as part of an Artistic pocket of the San Antonio-Clinton neighborhood.

This is a calm, peaceful, creative and renewable energy home,
continuously... upgrading to green. Not boring, just balanced.
Not dogmatic, just decent. Independent, yet, for the sake of effective communication and sharing, reasonably team-focused. Fun, occasional group activities, ranging from mixed gardening, quarterly paid pizza party deep cleaning, to relaxing art projects, happen, while not monopolizing people's time. Fun film screenings can also happen, using the big HDTV in the spacious, ventilated living room. We’re vaccinated and doing well.
The room is held at a great rate, with a semi-private bath and shared utilities ranging from $17- 85 a month (depending on the season) per person. The double window room of approximately 10ft x 11ft room (110 sf) is bright with frequent sun and warmth. From the original structure, there is also a crafty walk-in closet of approximately 5ftx5ft, with a shelf, hooks, and an installed horizontal post for hanging clothes. The room is far from the road, attached to the back common room of a wooded interior, with snug rug over hardwood floors, a cool stationary exercise bike and yoga loft, plus central heating, wifi, and a top-of-the-line basement washer/dryer for fine fabrics. Three other residents share the kitchen, including a dishwasher, utensils, cookware, gas stove, a whole-leaf tea area, etc. There are also two bathrooms.

Two yearly art shows, tea/dinner salons, or poetry readings may occur in the back common space and/or garden. There is a big backyard with BBQ and hammock, for everybody's use. Some shed storage available for your bicycle that is used for commuting. No pets please, we already have ONE INDOOR CAT.

The fragrance of healthy home-cooking is frequent in our home. Our age range is from late 20’s-50’s.

It’s important to really note that the BRIEF monthly house meetings are part of the deal, to eliminate confusion, strategize for economic resources, manage cleaning, and safeguard a good group experience. The gatherings have proven to be the most effective system for house harmony since work, friends, and school otherwise see different timelines and lives for folks. So, we do short, monthly gatherings that respect everyone’s schedules, and sometimes even add fun brunch, dinner, or dessert ;-).

A little about us: House Manager, 50’s (she, her, hers), from a very mixed family, PFLAAG, Italian, French-English speaker, some Dutch, learning Spanish, marketing for multicultural arts and renewable energy. Follows ongoing studies for it all. In non-pandemic times, also hosts monthly puzzle soirees and watercolor breakfasts. Looks out for house safety, admin, city reqs, and property maintenance, while adding to the street-sponsored bi-annual pancake block parties, in which most neighbors participate, and where the folks get to discuss any neighborhood concerns.

It is an increasingly close-knit neighborhood, while respecting privacy due to earlier decades of challenges.

Also, the street surface was recently repaved, so even your car will like this deal!


Once a month on-site owner is American-born Chinese male, 50’s, civil engineer by day, very OFTEN travels as a nature photographer, for work and for outside family. Coordinates maintenance with on-site manager. He mostly stays in San Francisco with his long-term partner.

Past long-term housemates have included an early 30's UC Berkeley male historian who got a better job; a late 20’s LGBTQ gifted vocalist and pianist (practiced on silent keyboard), who then got a scholarship to overseas grad school; an early 30’s Latinx fresh juice distributor who had done some impressive international bike tours, an early 30’s LGBTQ social worker who later went pre-med, then got into med school; an early 40’s public high school teacher who taught Social Studies, a late 40's dancer and English teacher from Barcelona, late 50's talented landscaper and seamstress, and a 30-something social justice paralegal who then went to law school for human rights law.

Key attributes for all housemates are: CLEAN, TIDY, considerate, with GOOD COMMUNICATION SKILLS, plus PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE LIVING COLLECTIVELY, with DIFFERENT AGE GROUPS, and DIET TYPES.

Please be employed. NO COUPLES, OR HARDCORE DRINKERS, SMOKERS, ETC.

Serious inquiries will provide three references with credit report, school ID and/or employment info at interview.

PREREQUISITE FOR INTERVIEW: Please respond via email describing yourself, and show us how you may be a collective fit to our team-oriented household. We’re giving EXTRA POINTS when you answer some fun questions, including:

1)Your experience in community living, with ANY COMMUNITY WELLNESS story.
2)Your CLEANING habits,
3)Work schedule
4)Reason for moving
5)Great travel experience
6)Your typical work day and what you like about your job,
7)Anytime you had to solve a community living challenge.
8)Anything else?

Please be sure and leave your phone number, so that we can chat for a few minutes before scheduling a visit. We require an in-person interview. Thank you! Read More