We're looking for a roommate for our awesome house in the mission.

Tagline: "Massive house, kinda expensive, super awesome."

The House:

• 124 year old Victorian, fully restored a year or two ago (125 this year, champagne party end of Jan early Feb)
• Quiet street, Fair Oaks, off of 23rd and Guerrero, just a couple blocks from BART, burritos, bars and bikes.
• Huuuge. 3600sqft, 3 floors, 2 kitchens, 4.5 bedrooms, 2 dining rooms, a 2 living rooms, 4 fireplaces, 4 chandeliers, 5 bathrooms (3 shower+tubs), Viking range, an attic, a deck on the top floor and lots of windows, power outlets. Central heating for each floor.
• Large common areas slowly being outfitted with gear (sofas, projector, games, stereo and large music collection so far), we've all moved in very recently so there is still some fleshing out to do, you can help :) Things are starting to come together but we're big dreamers.
• The whole bottom floor is legally a separate house with a separate address (they are connected by a stairway) but we'd like to keep it "in the family" as it really puts the place over the top, one of the rooms currently available is in that house.
• Well-behaved pets are theoretically allowable but it might be tough to convince the housemates.
• Pleasant neighbors and nice landlord.
• It's name is Houseku. http://flickr.com/photos/tags/houseku
• Some random website thinks were are very walkable: http://www.walkscore.com/get-score.php?street=223+Fair+Oaks+Street%2C+San+Francisco%2C+CA&go=Go
• Perks! We're testing out the idea of having a personal assistant for the house, so far it is working out great, more info on that available upon request.

Us:

• Andy ( http://flickr.com/photos/tags/termie ), aka The Young One, a bit irresponsible but still optimistic that he can change the world. Andy is a Californian until recently living in Europe for two years with a year in SF before that. He enjoys large breakfasts, belgian beers and the python programming language. He doesn't smoke or have the skills required to own pets (but will happily keep them entertained). He sleeps through anything and comes equipped with pretty red, pink, silver and brown bikes he hopes won't be stolen and is building a bit of a collection of spares anyway.
• Eden ( http://flickr.com/photos/tags/edensherry), aka The Tall One, like has to duck his head through doorways tall. Eden was born out here but has hopped from coast to coast a couple times. Having recently found out that gluten doesn't like him, he has helped to provide our house with a wide variety of crazy hippie products as well as a pretty respectable selection of wines, but he still lets us drag him out to pizza from time to time. He seems to have one of everything, which is pretty cool when you want to use something you don't have, and he also seems to know (or quickly find out) how lots of things work, which is good when things break.
• Colin ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/mccolin/tags/colin ), aka The Jersey One, he's super new (moved in a few weeks ago)) so I don't have enough info to write a bio of him yet, seems to be smart and has a beard, so that's a plus, right?
• We're all geeks in our own way, we like to throw dinner parties (or play drunk board games, or go out to eat, or come up with crazy plans to take advantage of our awesome house), drink good beer (and wine) and don't need much an excuse to go bike somewhere on a warm day (but it doesn't really get cold here).

You:

• Ice cold motherfucker from south Jersey (central Jersey accepted).
• Alternatively, a person or couple would do the trick.
• Not a smoker, at least not much of one (no smoking in the house).
• Interested in throwing dinner parties, okay with guests from out of town sleeping on the couches from time to time and at least somewhat environmentally conscious.
• Interested in sticking around for a while, current lease is until October and Andy is interested in sticking around another year after that.
• Extra points given to: experienced travelers, bikers (bicycles, that is), cooks, good taste in beer, neat techie gear you want to share, taking every friday off and significant online presence.

Extra Furniture:

• We currently have an extra california king size headboard, a couple extra dressers and a fold out futon available for use by whoever.

Open Rooms:

• We're full.
• The Downstairs Room(s) (Taken). The bottom floor of the house has one large, very secluded bedroom with an open half-bedroom next to it, perfect for a couple. The half-bedroom is great for a futon and an extra guest from time to time or as some office space. There are two bathrooms downstairs, one with a shower very near the main bedroom and one without connected to the living area.
• The room is a somewhat less fancy feeling than those upstairs so whoever rents it gets both it and the adjoining half-bedroom.
• The half-bedroom is also pretty good if you want to split rent with somebody else.
• There is an obvious line where curtains / slick beads could be added for more privacy.
• There is a kitchen downstairs, too.
• We currently store the bikes we ride near the kitchen downstairs.
• The Middle Room. (Taken) The top floor of the house has three large rooms running from the front of the house to the back, this is the middle one. It has a windowed area like a bay window or a reading nook that gets lots of light, wonderful on quiet sunny days. It has a tall ceiling and a fancy old-school light hanging in the center (other lights as well, gets plenty bright).

Monies:

• If we're splitting this thing four ways we're all in for $2150 a piece.
• If you are a couple you're worth 1.5 people, meaning you get 3/9ths and we all pay 2/9ths, so $2835 for you two, $1890 for each of us.

Alternative Monies Idea:

• $4250 is Common, $4250 is Room therefore:
• If we're splitting things 4 ways, we're still all in for $2150 a piece
• If you are a couple, you are in for (4250 / 5) * 2 = 1700 for Common and 1062.50 (we'll round this) for room, so roughly $2762.50 where as we end up in for $1912.50.
• This plan scales a bit more fairly for couples/roommates.

Please direct all inquiries to Andy Smith c/o Houseku Recruitment Foundation, contact details available at http://termie.pbwiki.com/AndySmith . If available please include links to your preferred blog, photo sharing, social networking and microblogging accounts.

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