Antietam Avenue

About the room: We have an UNFURNISHED master bedroom available to rent here in Fairfax, Va for $830 a month, plus utilities (another $150 or so). You can move in around March/April (it depends on when my gf’s appt sale closes). It is 13x14ft, two good size closets, and has a 4x7ft private bathroom. There are 3 wide windows in this room, 1 faces the side (east), 2 face the backyard (north). Even though you are right up on I66, you tend not to hear traffic if the windows are closed. There are several features that set this room apart:

*I installed a lighted ceiling fan that has a wireless control of dimmer/light/fan speed. Fan switch allows for normal direction (summer) and reverse (winter). *The bedroom door has about 20lbs or so of sound proof insulation (thin heavy mass, thick light foam, and a door sweep). It won’t block someone rocking out (which doesn’t happen anyway), but it is excellent at keeping out the light/medium noises especially at night. *Being a music lover, I installed surround sound wiring complete with wire anchors into the baseboards. The wires and walls are white, so they blend in easily. I am leaving the wiring and the speaker mounts in place, I am taking only my actual speakers. Assuming you have 2 rear speakers, you should be able to mount yours too. The other 2 speakers I keep on my desk. For this to work, you have to mirror my bed/desk setup. *The room gets warm af in the winter due to the dedicated HVAC vent. The 3 other rooms in the house have to share one vent. This, combined with heat naturally rising and the reverse direction ceiling fan, makes for a very toasty room. Even back in Dec/Jan when it was single digits for weeks, the heat vent was only halfway open. The room isn’t hot in the summer though.

A security deposit of 1 month ($830) is required. Since none of us know each other, we can do this in front of a notary and even include the real estate agency if this makes you more comfortable. Non-cash Paypal trace and all that. Also, leasing rules say you will have to join the lease.

About the house: It is a three story 2000 sqft house, with a small front yard and huge back yard, a two car carport, a small storage only shed, a back deck with a grill, and a very nice gym in the basement. We have ample fridge space, with three full fridges, a beer fridge, and a meat freezer. The main room has a 10ft HD projector screen for sporting events and will presumably be getting a 4K TV when I move out (current TV is mine). Unpictured, there’s a futon guest room/storage room.

The basement gym has been a labor of love putting together over the last few years. It has a bench that changes angles to be decline/flat/incline. It has a leg piece for quad/hamstring work. It has an arm piece for bicep/tricep work. The squat rack is for squats as well as bench press. We have dumbbell pairs ranging from 15lbs all the way up to 100lbs, and multiple 25/45lb bumper plates. There are thick mats for deadlifts that won’t harm the tile. There are lots of elastic bands for the 2 support poles for stretching if needed. The other half of the basement has cushion puzzles for stretching/PT/sit ups. The washer/dryer/boiler room is down here too.

Parking is free and ample, as we live in a neighborhood. Even better is that the house immediate across from us is vacant (owned by the county or something), so we can park on their side of the street too. We live in a great spot as leaving our neighborhood you have a Hooters, an ABC liquor store, a smalls strip mall of restaurants, and a CVS Pharmacy/ Patients First general care. A few blocks away is PJ Skidoos and Fast Eddys.

About the roommates: Three other guys live here, and we are all 20-30s working professionals. One is an airline pilot, another is IT with a security clearance, and the third is an event coordinator w/government. All jobs that require a law abiding household. We hang out, go to the gym, have fun on weekends, and sometimes even throw keggers, but are otherwise quiet during the work week. One of the guys is gay, but not thuper gay, so he’s straight.

We aren’t your parents, we don’t care how messy your room is (mine can get bad), but we do like to keep a clean house in the public rooms. Our one sticking point is that we are kinda anal about people who leaving a mess around, due to previously sloppy roommates who we had to clean up after.

We are looking for an outgoing, sociable, clean person who is in their 20s-30s and would be a good fit. We are looking for a LONG TERM roommate, one here for at least a year. We don’t like having to do a new search every few months. Rent and Utilities are directly paid to Dave, which then we write out the full amount to the real estate agency.

Disqualifiers: *Not submitting a picture. This is to keep out the druggies and other obvious craigslist weirdos. *Live in bf/gf, as a couple *Have a pet. Sorry we had some bad experiences. *No stable job *Drugs. While I’m cool with recreational pot, our clearances are not. This includes being an alcoholic *Being a non-us citizen from certain countries (sorry, again clearances). *Smoking, even if outside. Because then you smell like smoke when you come in and make the house smell too.