This one won’t be for everyone: Do you want to have _a_ family around, just not _your_ family?

Our two-parent, two-teenager household, (boomer, gen X, younger gen Z), is spilling over into a second apartment in our building—there's a little washer and dryer, a guest room we’ll spend time in, and your room.

Foot traffic:
We will be in and out of the apartment. Sometimes we’ll set up an office. Sometimes one of us will camp out for a weekend. Sometimes kids will hang around watching youtube (with earbuds). Sometimes a literal guest will stay in the guest room. But none of us currently live there full time. You would be the main person with shampoo in the shower.

Your room:
Your room is 12 by 15 feet, 180sf, though some of it is taken up by a six-foot wide, 30-inch deep closet that goes up to the 9-foot ceiling, leaving 165 sf of open floor. There are two sunny west/southwest facing windows. They look out on multi-lane traffic, plus a lot of trees and sky. Unfurnished. We may be able to help you find furniture. The wood floors are beautiful, but a building noise rule requires rugs over 80% of them.

Shared spaces:
The living room, kitchen, and bath are shared. There isn’t a tv in the living room, or shelving, or decor, and for us that’s great. We'll be in and out of the bathroom and kitchen. We’ll have stuff in the kitchen, but it’s not our 12-meals-a-day cooking environment.

Utilities:
We’re glad to buy a bedroom window a/c if we can find one that could stay after you. In heat season you are more likely to be too warm than too cold—old steam radiators. Half of gas, electric, and wifi is about 75/month. Maybe higher in a/c season?

Building:
The building is a family-oriented walkup coop, fairly diverse, and lgbt friendly. Four(?) of the 40 apartments are supportive housing for developmentally disabled adults. There are multiple outdoor spaces, including front yard and courtyard, plus a long, skinny back courtyard (or is it an alley?) where people do some veg gardening. Take a raised beds. The front yard is mostly decorative, but the courtyard is comfortable. There’s a bigger laundry room in the basement. And just to repeat the word walkup again, it’s a walkup. Building quiet hours are 10pm to 9am, and we have to take them seriously because the super lives directly below this space.

Neighborhood:
You can walk around the block and hit laundromats, delis, coffee, and basic takeout without crossing the street. More coffee, some bars, and a bookstore within a few blocks. Bigger grocery stores and more serious restaurants 5-10 minutes walk. Ten minutes in either direction to Greenwood Cemetery or Prospect Park.

Transit:
We are 0.3 miles to either the Fort Hamilton F/G (the directions say 8-minute walk ) or Church Ave F/G (9 minutes). The B and D are farther, 0.7 miles (16 minutes), but the bus can often get there faster. There are two Citibike racks within a block.

About us:
Nerds for sure. Our current employers include: a bookstore, a publisher, a parenting group. The kids are pretty mild for teenagers. So far.

About you:
We enjoy students and artists, and we plan to enjoy meeting you, whoever you are! We'll have to collaborate on cleaning and maintenance—are you ok to collaborate on cleaning and maintenance? And you'd have to live with not-that-predictable housemates, and with kids. You ok with kids?

Long-range stayability:
If you were happy here, if it turned out you felt comfortable, it’d probably be possible to get past the building’s two-year sublet limit. That would require one or two of us (adult or teenager) to eventually sleep full-time in that guest room--then you could end the limited-term "sublet" and be a longer-term "roommate."

Photo footnote:
Please disregard the construction dust! Dryer and fridge not pictured because not yet delivered when photos were taken. And the bathroom isn't bad, just not photogenic right now.

About This Lister

[Repeating info from above]

Our two-parent, two-teenager household, (boomer, gen X, younger gen Z), is spilling over into a second apartment in our building—it’s got a little washer and dryer, a guest room we’ll spend time in, and your room.

Foot traffic:
We will be in and out of the apartment. Sometimes we’ll set up an office. Sometimes one of us will camp out for a weekend. Sometimes kids will hang around watching youtube (with earbuds). Sometimes a literal guest will stay in the guest room. But none of us currently live there full time.

About us:
We’re nerds for sure. Our current employers include: a bookstore, a publisher, a parenting group. The kids are pretty mild for teenagers, so far(!).