Dear Stanford families,

We are a family of 3 - Tonia, Marc and Maya, our almost 7 month old daughter. Tonia is a postdoc the department of developmental biology at Stanford and Marc is a computational biologist at Genentech. We are from Switzerland and lived in Boston for 6 years before moving to the Bay Area in November. We enjoy outdoor activities, biking in particular, and we like to share good meals with friends.

For the past 4 months we have been sharing a house with 2 other families in Los Altos. We have been really enjoying sharing a home and the community but the location is too far south for us. We want to extend this experience of communal living and start another house share closer to Stanford; ideally in Menlo Park.

We are therefore looking for one or two families interested in renting and sharing a large house together. We will consider places with at least 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom per family, enough common space, and a garden. We expect the rent per family to be between 3000$/month (if 3 families) but no more than 4000$/month (if only 2 families). We want to start the process now with the hope of searching for a place together and moving in sometime in June/July. The initial commitment would be for a full year.

Please reply to tonia.and.marc@gmail.com if you are interested. Please include a little bit about yourself, why you want to live in a shared house, and what are your expectations about community lifestyle. We first would like to ensure a good fit in terms of lifestyle, purpose, and commitment. We would then be happy to meet in person to discuss and work together to find the right place for all of us.

Looking forward to hearing back from you,

Tonia and Marc