Share 2 Br House W/ Gay Private Chef in Echo Park.

Former set up in this room

Hi. I am looking for responsible full-time employed, or post-secondary matriculated male housemate. Please be health conscious and hygienic with very little to no interest in cooking.

If you are interested, I will be happy home cook you five delicious main meals per week included in the rent if that means that your cooking in the kitchen (beyond daily breakfast) will be very occasional to never. If you want, I can also do all your grocery shopping, breakfasts, or extra meals per separate negotiation.

This particular roommate arrangement could be ideal for students in demanding graduate, doctorate, or residency programs and may function beautifully to keep you consistently well nourished and healthy if you are too busy to be thorough about these matters yourself.

The house is approximately 950 sq ft and features a living room, comfortable dining area, two bedrooms, one shared bathroom and an outdoor patio space with seating and lots of plants. The house has a washer and dryer.

Your room can come partially furnished to completely unfurnished. The pictures of the house show a furniture configuration which will change when a housemate comes to share the house. The room will be delivered either empty, or with an armoire. A single, double or queen size bed will fit in the room depending on your needs and what else you want to put in there. Street parking is usually pretty easy and emergency tandem driveway parking is always available.

The location of the house is extremely central. Four freeways are within five minutes of driving distance, yet this part of the Echo Park foothills is extremely quiet. If you do not own a car, this is an easily walkable neighborhood with three grocery stores, quite a few restaurants/cafés, Elysian Park, Echo Park, Dodger Stadium, three major bus lines, and Sunset Blvd nightlife, accessible on foot in 1 to 10 minutes.

There is no standard closet in the room but I have an extra armoire you can use. If you raise the blinds at night, you can see the downtown skyline from your bed! This smallish but beautiful room is excellent for someone with not that many things. Having said that, I am looking for someone who is grounded in Los Angeles and is not transient.

The house is interestingly positioned and situated. Its on a functional private lane off of a single block street with decent to excellent street parking. All kinds of cars regularly park on this street without incident.

I am a private chef who works partially from home. Therefore, I will give strong preference to a person who is engaged in secure, established, full time employment/education outside the house. I have a long established community of friends, will sometimes host a dinner guest, and occasionally a larger party. I am out of the house a couple of nights every week. When I have had housemates in the past, I have made it a high priority to be mindful, respectful, fair, kind, considerate, quiet (don’t mind headphones) and equanimous as this is how expect to be treated.

A healthy, even-keeled, articulate, white collar roommate with good habits, fully formed adult boundaries, and a distaste for cooking will be the best fit. I am leaning towards another gay or bisexual man over 35 but will not rule out a chill sophisticated progressive straight guy, a younger graduate/medical/law student, or an extremely busy professional who will find living with someone with my particular skillset to be of tremendous benefit. No offense to anyone, but I am not amenable to sharing the house with current or ‘recovered’ hard drug users, alcoholics, or people who depend on prescription mood stabilizers. If you enjoy an occasional glass of wine with dinner, or like an edible once in a while, that is none of my concern. This is clearly not the same thing as what I am rejecting above.

If you care about yourself and other people, are healthy, will pay on time without being chased, would be objectively regarded as clean, are cheerful and friendly, and want to share a mutually courteous, caring, and complimentary home environment, we will get along very well.

Friend visits and hangouts are welcome, a planned occasional out of town guest is cool, a hook up now and then is fine, but frequent overnight guests like a bf or gf who cannot host your overnights/weekends will require disclosure and discussion. I want you to feel comfortable bringing your s. o. over here but there is a limit and I am interested in one housemate, not two!

I do not have pets but I like some dogs. I would consider a housemate with a small well behaved, friendly, well trained dog. If you have cats or a big dog, sorry, but there is nothing I can do for you.

Your rent will be $1250 per month plus half the internet and 1/3 of the other utilities. Security deposit will be one months rent due with first months rent due prior to move in. Solid reachable verifiable employment and social references are required, and good credit is essential.

Please please please… No depressives, whiners, bad tempers, people who are unhappy in/with Los Angeles, slobs, hard drug users, people who smell like weed, excessive drinkers, smokers, bad communicators, or otherwise antisocial persons.

Move in date is open but a January 1st move in would be ideal.

Let’s have a brief video meeting or to see if there is mutual interest in moving forward with a showing. I can give you a virtual tour of the house then which can quickly progress to a proper introduction and tour.

Thank you for your interest and best of luck in your search!