Room in 100 year old house for Spring Semester and

Before responding, please read this ad in its entirety to see if it will be a good fit.

The three spare bedrooms in this home, the full-time residence of an older professional, are rented throughout the year as single rooms to recently graduated young professionals and to full-time men upperclassmen or graduate students from the local universities (Arcadia University, Westminster Theological Seminary, Temple). One room is now available.

With original hardwood floors and furnished with antiques, this large house passed the century mark in 2013. Each bedroom is fully furnished and it 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 $700. 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.

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 through the end of August, 2026. I do not make exceptions to my policy of only renting out rooms for such blocks of time. If you seek a month-to-month arrangement, this will not be a good solution for you.

This place is not for people who largely or totally work or study from home. It is for someone who has a place to go every day and at most works out of the house one day a week.

If you think we have a good match, please write me. Tell me about yourself (required if you want a reply), your age, where you work, or what school you go to and what you're majoring in, etc. I will be delighted to hear from you.

Some things to be aware of, based on the above. You will not hear back from me if 1) you just write back “I am interested” or only communicate a phone number you expect me to call; the process must begin with your telling me about yourself 2) you go straight into wanting me to give you a date to come see the house. When someone's home is at issue, it is customary to wait to be invited. 3) you ignore that I said that if this ad is up, it means the room is still available, and you write to ask anyway 4) you give me a hard time about not writing back. If we have a good match, I will get back to you. I do not respond to every piece of correspondence I get.

I expect people to read through this ad, because it contains important information for you to decide if you want to move forward on it. It only takes a minute. So whether people can be "bothered" is a first filter of potential tenants. I do not get back to people who obviously can't be "bothered."

No pets, please.