The Bubbaland Community (named for one of its original residents from the 1960s, Bubba the cat!) in the Professorville neighborhood of Palo Alto is looking for new housemates! Our community comprises three independent apartments in a multi-unit home: an upstairs 2-bedroom apartment, an upstairs studio apartment, and a downstairs 5-bedroom apartment. Across all units, we are around 8 graduate students, postdocs, and young professionals (mid-20s to mid-30s) who value sustainability and social justice. We have several different types of openings this summer (you can find the other Craigslist postings through the Google Form below), but this opening is a single room in the five-bedroom, two bathroom apartment.

We are located close to downtown Palo Alto, on a leafy street near the Town & Country shopping center. We are a hop-skip-and-a-jump from Trader Joe's and Whole Foods, a quick walk to the Palo Alto Caltrain station, close to multiple farmers markets, and a quick bike ride to Stanford’s main quad.

Our entire 8-person community engages in once-a-week house dinners and bi-monthly outdoor work days. Together, we share and communally work to maintain (and beautify!) our outdoor spaces, including a back patio, several garden areas, and a raised bed for herbs and vegetables. We also split utilities/WiFi across the complex, and have tons of permitted street parking as well as a driveway with a few parking spots and a covered bike shed.

We value building community in and outside of the house, but we also live independent lives. Some nights, the house is dark, and others, you'll find us all spontaneously coalescing around the kitchen table sharing homemade blondies, watching a movie on our living room projector, or playing board games. On balance, the tenor of the community is calm and warm. At the house, we've hosted everything from potlucks to “ballot parties” for researching local issues before voting to craft nights to patio bonfires to parties celebrating the blooming of our jasmine plants. We also love excursions: a hike in the hills and onion rings at Alice's, compost acquisition trips to our local free compost pile or an SF chocolatier (cocoa husk mulch is a wonderful-smelling garden game-changer), spontaneous adventures to pick-up fun free things we find, or scouring secondhand stores.

Now for the nitty-gritty details! Beyond our full-community events and responsibilities, the downstairs unit shares chores and responsibilities as well as many dry goods and staple food items. We have a relatively new in-unit washer/dryer. The shared space in the five-bedroom apartment is large and open, with a renovated kitchen, spacious living room with a great projector set-up, and finished basement which often serves as a guest room.

Rent for this room is $1,006; utilities include high-speed internet, electricity, gas, and water, and often come to roughly $80 per month. This long and narrow room is fully wood-paneled and has a built-in closet and two windows overlooking our front yard. It may have originally been built as a sunroom, giving it the somewhat funky feature of technically having windows into the house as well as to the outside. For that reason, rent for this room is slightly cheaper than other rooms in the house–but prior residents have really loved the set-up, both for having two distinct sleeping and working areas and for feeling a bit like living in a ship. The room will come furnished with a bed, dresser, and desk; it shares a bathroom with 2 other housemates. This room will be available starting on June 15th, and we will be prioritizing long-term housemates. However, as a house with many academics, we are used to following the cadence of the academic year; we may also be able to accommodate summer sublets or long-term housemates hoping to move in September. Regardless of your specific timeline, we encourage you to fill out the Google form below if you’re interested in joining us at Bubbaland.

We're excited to welcome new folks to Bubbaland who value open communication, strive for sustainable choices/actions, and invest in community. As we are currently searching for multiple housemates, we are asking all applicants to fill out this streamlined Google form: https://forms.gle/CD2vQGFZipgvHf7r7 . In the Google form, you can also find Craigslist links to all of our available rooms, which have more photos available. We will not be responding to any inquiries received via SUPost, unless you are letting us know that you are having issues with the Google form. We are looking forward to meeting our new housemates soon; thanks so much for your interest in Bubbaland!