Private bedroom
- Shared bathroom
- Wardrobe or rack
- Desk available
- Own outdoor area
- Good view or outlook
The room fits a double or queen bed, bedside table, wardrobe and drawers. It’s currently unfurnished but I can help find furniture for the right person.
The rest of the house is furnished and you’ll have access to this and use of my appliances - washing machine, fridge, kitchen appliances, TV etc.
There's a garden if you've got a green thumb; and potentially some workshop space for a fellow maker/up-cycler/fixer-uper-er.
Home Description
Description of the home
* Must be looking to move in and/or start paying rent by mid-July *
The place is an older, weatherboard house with two bedrooms and an office, a shared bathroom, combined lounge-dining, kitchen, laundry and second toilet.
It has ducted gas heating, gas hot water, upright electric oven/stove and air con in the lounge-dining area. I also have portable air conditioners and misting fans for cooling in summer.
The property is fenced giving the leafy garden areas privacy from neighbours and passersby. The bedrooms have full-width sliding glass doors that open onto a covered verandah that wraps around the house.
There’s great access to public transport. The 86 tram stops at the end of the street on Plenty Rd. Numerous bus routes stop at La Trobe Uni, just a few minutes walk away on the other side of Plenty Rd.
Reservoir Station is a 10 minute trip on the 561 bus, which leaves frequently from a bus-stop just a couple of minutes walk away.
Supermarkets and a variety of other shops, services and eateries are a short walk away at the Polaris shopping precinct, and more a short tram ride or drive down Plenty Rd.
Bundoora Park is only two streets back if you ever need a dose of nature, although plenty of cockatoos and other birds come to us.
Home features
- Air-conditioning
- Living area heating
- Broadband Internet
- Clothes washer
- Clothes dryer
- Storage room
- Balcony, patio or deck
- Courtyard, garden or yard
- BBQ facilities
Bills and expenses
Bond is $900. Rent is paid monthly due by the 5th of each month.
Rent includes:
- gas, electricity and water
- unlimited FTTP broadband internet
- access to whatever pay-TV subscription I have at the time.
We’ll share essentials - dishwashing liquid, loo paper etc but grocery shopping will be separate.
Occupants Description
- Animals and pets
- Art and culture
- Bars, pubs or clubs
- Community work
- Creative interests
- Current affairs
- Health and fitness
- Movies
- Music
- Reading
- Spirituality
- Travel
Over the years I've worked in higher education administration and event management, graphic design, digital media and fine arts. I’m now out of the career-and-parenting grind and enjoying a less stressful life and more personal pursuits.
I enjoy art (making & seeing), music, learning stuff, indi films, fringe theatre, and pub gigs. I’m a light drinker, non-smoker and eat mainly vegetarian (meat maybe once a week).
I'm straight but queer-friendly. From age 17 until my mid-40s I lived in Sydney in the Darlinghurst-Surry Hills neighbourhood – back before the fun and authenticity was gentrified, regulated and renovated out of them. I moved to Melbourne in 2012 looking for more creative community and lifestyle.
I’m mostly happy doing my own thing but love a good laugh and some intelligent conversation when our paths cross. I’m not wanting a passing ships in the night vibe. While I don't like the house to be eerily quiet, I am respectful of others' schedules and need for peace. It’d be great if we had similar music taste. If not, there’s headphones.
I’m mainly vegetarian but it’s okay if you’re not. Moderate drinking is fine. Non-smoker preferred but if you do smoke it must be outside.
We’ll both clean up after ourselves and keep shared spaces reasonably clean and tidy. Housework and garden maintenance will be shared.
You’ll be welcome to have friends around so long as it’s not a revolving door all day and night.
You must be able to pay the rent on time every month so some income other than just benefits preferred.
I will consider someone with a smaller or older pet so long as they'll fit in with the ones already here. No large or heavy barking dogs, sorry.
Flatmate Preferences
- Woman
- Non-binary
- Outside okay
Britt
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