Room available in late July in warm, cooperative home! (palo alto)

The Bubbaland Community (named for one of its original residents from the 1960s, Bubba the cat!) in the Professorville neighborhood of Palo Alto is looking for new housemates! Our community comprises three independent apartments in a multi-unit home: an upstairs 2-bedroom apartment, an upstairs studio apartment, and a downstairs 5-bedroom apartment. Across all units, we are around 8 graduate students, postdocs, and young professionals (mid-20s to mid-30s) who value sustainability and social justice. We have several different types of openings this summer (you can find the other Craigslist postings through the Google Form below), but this opening is a single room in the five-bedroom, two bathroom apartment.
We are located close to downtown Palo Alto, on a leafy street near the Town & Country shopping center. We are a hop-skip-and-a-jump from Trader Joe's and Whole Foods, a quick walk to the Palo Alto Caltrain station, close to multiple farmers markets, and a quick bike ride to Stanford’s main quad.

Our entire 8-person community engages in once-a-week house dinners, house meetings, and bi-monthly outdoor work days. Together, we share and communally work to maintain (and beautify!) our outdoor spaces, including a back patio, several garden areas, a newly-acquired basketball hoop, and a raised bed for herbs and vegetables. We also split utilities/WiFi across the complex, and have tons of permitted street parking as well as a driveway with a few parking spots and a covered bike shed.

We value building community in and outside of the house, but we also live independent lives. Some nights, the house is dark, and others, you'll find us all spontaneously coalescing around the kitchen table sharing homemade blondies, watching a movie on our living room projector, or playing board games. On balance, the tenor of the downstairs unit is calm and warm. At the house, we've hosted everything from potlucks to “ballot parties” for researching local issues before voting to craft nights to patio bonfires to parties celebrating the blooming of our jasmine plants. We also love excursions: a hike in the hills and onion rings at Alice's, compost acquisition trips to our local free compost pile or an SF chocolatier (cocoa husk mulch is a wonderful-smelling garden game-changer), spontaneous adventures to pick-up fun free things we find, or scouring secondhand stores.

Now for the nitty-gritty details! Beyond our full-community events and responsibilities, the downstairs unit shares chores and responsibilities as well as many dry goods and staple food items. We have a brand new in-unit washer/dryer. The shared space in the five-bedroom apartment is large and open, with a renovated kitchen, spacious living room with an upright piano, and finished basement which often serves as a guest room.

Rent is $1,165; utilities include high-speed internet, electricity, gas, and water, and often come to roughly $60 per month. The available unfurnished room has mint-green walls, two windows overlooking our back fence, and a built-in closet; it shares a bathroom with 1-2 other housemates. The current resident is dating another housemate, so currently just uses this room as an office (hence no bed in the photos) but it has historically always been a bedroom. The current resident has not yet finalized their move-out date, but we are anticipating that the room will become available in late July.
We're excited to welcome new folks to Bubbaland who value open communication, strive for sustainable choices/actions, and invest in community. As we are currently searching for multiple housemates, we are asking all applicants to fill out this streamlined Google form: https://forms.gle/yDqDy5SbWiCSnpSi9 . The Craigslist add has more pictures sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/roo/d/palo-alto-room-available-in-late-july/7838687860.html but we will not be responding to any inquiries received via Craigslist. We looking forward to meeting our new housemates soon; thanks so much for your interest in Bubbaland!