We (2 M, 1 F) have one room for rent in our 4BR2B house in the Midtown/Triple El area of Palo Alto in 20-25 min biking distance (15-20 min by car) to Stanford campus. There is plenty of space available for street parking. The house has a fully equipped kitchen, a large living room/common area with a nice large couch, a TV and a big dining table. The house has central heating (no AC) and a washing machine and dryer. There is a garden area outside with mature fruit trees and raised garden boxes in the front which are currently orphaned but would be happy to help in any planting efforts. Pets are not allowed, sorry.
The room is available from the 1st of August and preferentially for long-term (≥1 year) rent. The utilities are $95/month in addition to the rent and will be adjusted at the end of the year for the actual costs. We currently also have a cleaning lady coming every other week, which we’d be happy to keep (she charges $160 per cleaning, so 2x$40 for each housemate per month). We have a 2 Gbit AT&T fiber internet connection which is $20 per month per housemate.
This is the largest room and almost a studio apartment (~250 sqft plus a large closet space on the whole back wall and its own bathroom with a bathtub), it’s in the front of the house with windows facing east and north and comes furnished, and with a hardwood floor, a fireplace (functionality unknown) and a separate entry.
For more images and a room plan, please see the Google Slides:
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About us:
I am a Chemistry Postdoc working at Stanford, and will move back to Sweden by the end of July. Chris is 40 and a former Postdoc, now Staff Scientist in the Stanford Genetics department. He is nowadays working in the lab but also from home, and will be around a few more months but leave the country latest by end of September. Magda is a Stanford Biology Postdoc in her 30’s and works mostly in the lab. We are all friendly, pretty laid back and reasonably quiet. We mostly relax on the weekend or are outdoors and occasionally have some friends over in the living room and sometimes we also just hang out together with a good board game or TV show.
If you are interested, please contact me, Chris, or Magda with some information about you, so we can set up a zoom call or in-person visit. We are usually better available in the evening during workdays.