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 lives between two apartments, and one of them is only half inhabited—there's a small washer and dryer, a guest room we use, and your room. You could think of your (sunny, prewar) room as if it’s in a garage apartment or a finished basement. It’s attached to a family home, but the family isn’t always there. We’re in and out for laundry and storage and zoom meetings and weekend sleepovers, but sometimes it’ll go quiet for a few days. And none of us live there full time. Eventually one or two of us may.

Wait what?:
We are in and out of the apartment all the time, at odd hours, not in any clockwork rhythm. 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 literal guests will stay in the guest room. But you would be the main person there every night, and 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. That leaves 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. The wood floors are beautiful, but a building noise-reduction rule requires rugs over 80% of them.

Shared spaces:
The apartment totals somewhere above 850sf? 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 ideal. Minimalism for the win. We'll be in and out of the bathroom and kitchen. We use the kitchen, and we take up a share of the storage space there, but it’s not our 7-meals-a-day cooking environment.

Utilities:
The room has a new window a/c from late summer. In heat season, you’re more likely to be too warm than too cold. Steam radiators. Half of gas, electric, and wifi has been about 75/month. Probably 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 vegetable gardening. Take a raised bed in the spring. The front yard is mostly decorative, but the courtyard is comfortable. There’s a commercial 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 multiple laundromats, delis, coffee places, and basic takeout places 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. The bottom-line compatibility criteria are for us to feel comfortable running into you, and to sense that you feel comfortable running into us.

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’d want to be more than ok with kids, and with being part of a big household ecosystem, even just as a satellite.

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 work if one or two of us (adult or teenager) eventually slept full-time in that guest room--then the limited-term "sublet" could become a longer-term "roommate" thing.

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[Repeats from above]
We're a two-parent, two-teenager household. 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.

We'll be in and out of the apartment all the time. 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 literal guests will stay in the guest room. But none of us currently live there full time.