This is an advert for an apartment share starting August 1 in a great location, especially for the Stanford campus (College Avenue, Palo Alto):

• 6 min cycle (15 min walk) to Stanford campus;
• 4 min walk to Cal Ave Caltrain station - handy for trips up to San Francisco etc;
• 2 min walk to California Avenue (shops, restaurants, and Sunday farmer's market).
• 10 min cycle along the bicycle boulevard to Palo Alto Downtown (more shops, restaurants, cinema etc)

The apartment The photos are only to show the space, all the furniture is now different.
Your room comes with some furniture to buy out if you want to stay long term, it includes bed, desk, lamp, other misc items.
The apartment has two fairly large bedrooms (see photo for yours, furniture is different), a shared bathroom (with bath plus shower), large shared living space, and a shared kitchen. The remainder of the flat has some furnishings (dining table, couch etc). If you have your own furniture for these shared areas you're welcome to bring them - but we should probably chat about it first so we don't end up with a million couches. The kitchen has plenty of stuff: pots and pans, cutlery, plates etc etc, which you are welcome to use - or bring your own. There are all the usual appliances (fridge, oven, electric hob, toaster, rice cooker, kettle) which do their jobs admirably.

Contract

The rent is very good for the area! If you decide to move in, you and I would sign a new contract together with the landlord so we would have shared responsibility for the apartment. We both pay $1440 a month. The nice thing is its a rolling monthly contract - so if you decide to move out for whatever reason, you just have to give one months notice. That being said, it would be nice if you're planning to stay for the medium-long term (e.g., 6 months +).

Utilities (water, internet etc) are usually in the $60-80 range.

The landlord will require you to fill out an application form and will require 1/2 of the first month's rent and 1/2 of the last month's rent, plus a security deposit of $175.00.

Move-in date
The current housemate you would be replacing is planning to move out sometime in the next few weeks so we can negotiate a bit on the actual move-in date

Landlord requirements
The landlord has asked me to pass on the following requirements:

• you must have a steady job or be a student
• excellent credit (note: if you're from abroad you might not have a credit rating in the US yet. This probably won't be an issue - it wasn't for me).
• excellent references
• can pay the monthly rent
• must be a non smoker
• no pets

Other details
Car parking space - I don't have a car, so this would be all yours! You can put a car in it, or just sit in it, its up to you.

There's extra outside storage space if you happen to be hauling a bunch of stuff around with you.

Onsite washer and dryer.

Arranging a viewing
If you're interested, I'm sure you would like to come and have a look at the place and meet me, and I'd like to meet you too. I will be arranging viewings next week onwards for about 5-6 days. So reach out and we can work out a day that would be a good for you to come and look around. If you can't make it next week feel free to get in touch anyway and we can figure something else out.

Drop me a message letting me know a bit about yourself if you feel like and roughly what times you would be available to come and see the place.

Cheers!