Edmund Avenue

Saint Paul, MN 55104

We have a basement room available for $575 August 1st, and 2nd floor room available Sept 1st or maybe October 1st for $615.

We are looking for a housemate who enjoys living with others, who wants to share spaces, meals, the arts in the house, volunteer together, (The Frogtown farm is close by and needs lots of helpers.), get to know our neighbors and community. We like to cook, garden, host pot lucks and go to community festivals, plays, concerts and dances and walk around Como Lake with our dogs. We are looking for a balance between having quiet time and time to recharge and also hosting and having gatherings / potlucks with friends. We’re 3 blocks from the green line near Lexington and University on the border Frogtown and Hamline Midway neighborhoods in St. Paul. We’re 1.8 miles from Como Lake within walking distance of Concordia College, Hamline University and Hamline Mitchell Law School. We’re 6 miles from the East Bank of the UMN and 4 from the St. Paul campus. It’s a 30 minute train ride or bike ride to the UMN and a ten minute train ride to downtown St. Paul. We’re 3 blocks from University Ave which provides lots of shops and restaurants. We’re about 4 blocks from the Frogtown Farm where you can volunteer to help grow organic vegetables.

The house is a quiet, large, updated, fully furnished Victorian with 7 bedrooms, 3 large bathrooms, a living room, dining room, kitchen, den, front porch, hardwood floors, large windows, antique furniture, stone patio and lots of flower gardens that everyone can help with if they so choose.

We want everyone who applies to the listing to know what is expected of them before they choose to live in the house. So, we have organized the house around a couple of principals: minimizing the amount of cleaning, consideration of others, building relationships and creating a safe, happy home.

Therefore, we don’t allow overnight guests except for friends and family visiting from out of town. Because of some bad experiences, guests must be cleared with the homeowner. We eat only in the kitchen and dining room to prevent spills on hand made carpets, mice and cock roaches and to enable folks to chat during mealtimes (we really are looking for community oriented people).

We don’t wear our outside shoes in the house, given that 85% of the dirt that comes into the house comes in on the bottom of shoes. Outside shoes can be stored in the trunk under the stairs or in bedrooms in a box to keep dirt off the carpets.

In the kitchen we wash, dry and put away our dishes, and wipe off stove, countertops and table if we have used them, and sweep the floor if we have done a lot of chopping before leaving the kitchen. In the bathroom, we leave the sink, toilet and tub/shower clean after using them: no hair or toothpaste anywhere.

Everyone has a place to store personal items in the bathroom and kitchen, so we don’t leave personal items in the common areas. Everyone cleans weekly for about an hour.

We are looking for roommates who are active, non drug using, nonsmoking, who drink socially only. (If you need to drink alone in your bedroom, this isn’t the placer for you.) who work or study full time, who can at least tolerate the animals, who are happy to do a weekly cleaning chore for about an hour, who keep their bedroom reasonably neat and clean and who would enjoy hanging out with their housemates.

We know this is a lot, but we want to be sure the expectations are clear. If you enjoy making new friends, and our housekeeping practices come naturally to you, please contact us. Our house is actually a fun place to live. for $615/mo including everything, October 1st. We are near Edmund Ave. and Oxford St. in St Paul, 55104. We’re looking for a new housemate who enjoys living with others.

We’re 3 blocks from the green line near Lexington and University on the border Frogtown and Hamline Midway neighborhoods in St. Paul. We’re 1.8 miles from Como Lake within walking distance of Concordia College, Hamline University and Hamline Mitchell Law School. We’re 6 miles from the East Bank of the UMN and 4 from the St. Paul campus. It’s a 30 minute train ride or bike ride to the UMN and a ten minute train ride to downtown St. Paul. We’re 3 blocks from University Ave which provides lots of shops and restaurants. We’re about 4 blocks from the Frogtown Farm where you can volunteer to help grow organic vegetables.

The house is a quiet, large, updated, fully furnished Victorian with 7 bedrooms, 3 large bathrooms, a living room, dining room, kitchen, den, front porch, hardwood floors, large windows, antique furniture, stone patio and lots of flower gardens that everyone can help with if they so choose.

We want everyone who applies to the listing to know what is expected of them before they choose to live in the house. So, we have organized the house around a couple of principals: minimizing the amount of cleaning, consideration of others, building relationships and creating a safe, happy home.

Therefore, we don’t allow overnight guests except for friends and family visiting from out of town. Because of some bad experiences, guests must be cleared with the homeowner. We eat only in the kitchen and dining room to prevent spills on hand made carpets, mice and cock roaches and to enable folks to chat during mealtimes (we really are looking for community oriented people).

We don’t wear our outside shoes in the house, given that 85% of the dirt that comes into the house comes in on the bottom of shoes. Outside shoes can be stored in the trunk under the stairs or in bedrooms in a box to keep dirt off the carpets.

In the kitchen we wash, dry and put away our dishes, and wipe off stove, countertops and table if we have used them, and sweep the floor if we have done a lot of chopping before leaving the kitchen. In the bathroom, we leave the sink, toilet and tub/shower clean after using them: no hair or toothpaste anywhere.

Everyone has a place to store personal items in the bathroom and kitchen, so we don’t leave personal items in the common areas. Everyone cleans weekly for about an hour.

We are looking for roommates who are active, non drug using, nonsmoking, who drink socially only. (If you need to drink alone in your bedroom, this isn’t the placer for you.) who work or study full time, who can at least tolerate the animals, who are happy to do a weekly cleaning chore for about an hour, who keep their bedroom reasonably neat and clean and who would enjoy hanging out with their housemates.

We know this is a lot, but we want to be sure the expectations are clear. If you enjoy making new friends, and our housekeeping practices come naturally to you, please contact us. Our house is actually a fun place to live.

I have a Master’s degree in English Lit with a focus on Medieval literature, but tend, these days, to listen to Victorian novels, spiritual writers and teachers and histories on Youtube while working about the house. I have to say that rehabbing my old Victorian house, sharing it with others and caring for our pets: two dogs and a cat, has been my work of the last 25 years. I enjoy costume dramas, classical music concerts, museums, cooking, cleaning, and exploring MN’s parks. I have lots of great camping equipment and would love to go on a household camping trip in the early fall.

One of our housemates is about 40, has lived here for 3 years, is legally blind, works at Goodwill part time, babysits, volunteers at a cat shelter and spends a lot of time at her boyfriend’s house. She enjoys hanging out with the housemates. Another is from Vietnam, graduated from the UMN in math last spring and is job hunting. He particularly enjoys video games. We have someone who grew up in India and works as a mechanical engineer, and we have a German Fulbright scholar who researches something related to food and agriculture.