Hi everyone,

Please respond to this listing by emailing Paya at pgupta@post.harvard.edu, thanks!
We have an unfurnished, single room available in our updated 4-bdrm, 3-bathroom, 1-story house in Palo Alto.
The monthly rent is $1600 + bills and the room is available to lease and move-in now (flexible until end March).
We are looking for someone to rent until the end of the current lease to Sunday, July 28, 2019 (5 months).
At the end of the current lease, the roommate can decide whether they want to move-out or renew with the rest of the 3 other housemates for the start of another 1-year lease.

The Room

-The room has hard wood floors, an ensuite closet, and can fit a queen size bed with room for a nightstand and bookshelf/study desk at ~10.5x12ft.
-It gets great natural light from a window and has its own private sliding glass door in and out of the house to the backyard.
-It shares a full, modern bathroom with 1 other respectful, professional housemate (male), and both rooms have their own entrance door to the bathroom.
-Spacious walk-in shower has updated tile.
-The bedroom itself comes unfurnished.
-The house common areas are fully furnished with large dining table, couch, barstools, study desk, and 60-inch tv.
-There is a large closet with a washer and dryer. The access to the washer and dryer closet is through the room so whoever is in the room needs to be comfortable with the other housemates coming in to do laundry at scheduled times set by the housemate living in this room. We are really respectful about this and no issues so far!

Rent
-Rent is $1600 and includes the room (unfurnished), access to the rest of the furnished house included updated kitchen, and garage storage (for bikes and suitcases).
-Additional costs include utilities ($70-90/person a month), super high-speed Internet and basic cable TV ($29/person a month), and maid services every 2-3 weeks (~$30/ person per service)

House
-This modern house is a spacious 2000+ sq ft and was fully renovated with hardwood floors, all new kitchen and bathrooms, new appliances including a dishwasher, oven, and high-efficiency LG clothes washer & dryer.
-The contemporary kitchen has granite counter tops and stainless steel appliances including a gas stove and oven, fridge, dishwasher, toaster and microwave.
-There is a sizable, fully furnished living room and dining room area with an open floor plan and nice natural light. Includes a huge round dining table, couch set, coffee table and 3 bar stools
-60-inch Samsung TV with DVR, basic cable, & HBO
-LG clothes washer/dryer in the house
-Central A/C and heater
-Free street car parking, tons available in front of the house and no through-street traffic.
-Garage for parking bikes and storage and small backyard area and on the Park Blvd bike path to Stanford University
-Price includes bi-weekly landscaping for the house
-Clean house that stays clean with the shared maid service!

Location
-Amazing location in Palo Alto on Park Blvd (between Alma St and El Camino).
-Walking distance (0.7m) to main street of California Ave and the California Ave CALTRAIN stop.
-There are multiple grocery stores (Mollie Stone, Grocery Outlet, Whole Foods, Trader Joe, Safeway, Sprouts, Target), restaurants, and shopping nearby around California Ave, El Camino and Alma st
-Centrally located, especially for those looking to go to Stanford and downtown Palo Alto.
-10-20min bike ride to Univ Ave and Stanford campus depending on where on campus you are going.
-Overall very bike friendly and near Palo Alto bike path.
-Easy access to tech HQs such as Palantir, Google, and Facebook.

Housemates
The other housemates are all laid-back, respectful, and generally busy, working professionals in their 20s-30s.
I, Paya, am a female professional and manage the house. I am originally from Austin, TX, went to Harvard University and came out to the Bay Area from NYC to work in private equity and invest in tech companies.
Another housemate Daniel (male, early 30s) is originally from Germany, recently graduated from Berkeley with a PhD in Computer Science and works for Visa Research, and likes hike and do Toastmasters in his spare time.
The 3rd housemate, Evgeny (male, late 20s), is from Switzerland, went to grad school at UC Santa Barbara, and is PhD postdoc in Physics at Stanford University. For fun he likes to go swing dancing, cook, play board games, and listen to podcasts. Evgeny is who you would be sharing the full bathroom with.

We are looking for another professional/grad student, non-smoking housemate who is ideally laid-back and clean in common spaces.
Either male or female is fine.
No smoking inside and we do shoes off inside the common areas.
Sorry, no pets and no live-in partners, room is only for 1 person.

If interested, please email us sharing your contact phone number so I can call to schedule a tour, information about yourself and what you're looking for, ideally a Linkedin profile link, and we can call you with more information on the house and to schedule a viewing of the room and house if it makes sense.

Please respond to this listing by emailing Paya at pgupta@post.harvard.edu, thanks!

Cheers!
Paya