Sylvia's room

Please take time to read this description so you can decide if it makes sense for you to write me. It is important that it be a good fit for everyone concerned.

The three spare bedrooms in this home, the full-time residence of an artist, are rented throughout the year as single rooms to full-time men graduate students from the nearby universities or to young professionals. Due to an unexpected vacancy, one room is now available as of late September.

With original hardwood floors and furnished with antiques, this large house passed the century mark in 2013. Each bedroom is fully furnished and has own TV set. Each bedroom is rented out as a single. No exceptions. If you are a couple, this will not be a good match for you.

The rent for each room, with shared bathroom, is $625. The cost of utilities and wireless high speed internet are included in this price. The lodgers have kitchen/ laundry privileges, access to huge back yard and off-street parking. I am sorry, but I can neither reduce the rent nor enter into a formal arrangement permitting a lodger to perform certain services in lieu of partial rent.

I am seeking a person who does not work or study from home, but rather goes out to a job or a university campus every day or virtually every day. For security reasons, I want that person to give me a link to a Facebook or LinkedIn page that shows the same information he is providing me with and has been up for at least six months.

The house is in Glenside, walking distance from Arcadia University, and only a mile from Westminster Theological Seminary. It is a 10-minute drive from Salus University. Its location is just north of the Philadelphia city line in Montgomery County, in an extremely safe neighborhood.

It is half a block from a Wawa convenience store and minutes’ walk from the Glenside commercial section and train station (including a line that goes to the airport). For someone without a car–or whose car has broken down– it is an exceptionally well-connected suburban location.

I rent out rooms in units of time that correspond to blocks of time on the academic calendar. In this case, the lease on the room would be at least until Labor Day 2024. I do not make exceptions to my policy of only renting out rooms for such blocks of time. If you seek a very short term lease or a month-to-month arrangement, this will not be a good solution for you.

If you think we have a good match, please write me. Permit me to repeat that this is for a college senior or graduate student or young professional between 22-27. If the ad is up, the room is still available–please don’t write to ask. Tell me about yourself (required if you want a reply), your age, what school you go to and what you’re majoring in, or where you work. Include when you would want the room and for what time period. Tell me anything else you think it would be meaningful for me to know. I will be delighted to hear from you. If we have a good match, I will get back to you.

Important: Do not send me a message that consists of only a telephone number I am supposed to call, or one that only says “I am interested in the room.” If you don’t tell me about yourself in your first text, as I ask, I will just delete the correspondence.

No pets, please.

I am the property owner and this is my full-time residence. I am an artist and a language interpreter. At present there are two college students living here. One is majoring in international relations and the other is in computer science.