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$850 / 1br - 120ft2 - 2 rooms available in shared house, near WWU (Happy Valley)
1BR / 1.5Ba
120ft2
available now
rent period:
monthly
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This is a four bedroom house on a half acre, has off-street parking and outbuildings available for safe storage (ie: bikes or ski gear you don't want in your room) a garden, large-scale sculptures, and a creek.
Despite being four bedrooms, this house works best with only three humans/renters: The remaining room (currently messy and with red walls in the photos) is included with your rent and has in the past been used as a computer/study room, sewing/yoga/hobby or storage space, or set up as a chill lounge. For my part, as long as it isn't used for death metal band rehearsals, I don't care because my room (on the opposite side of the house) is large enough for my computer/desk and has a half bathroom in it.
The house is as efficient and as modern as a 1968 rambler can be -- I've done a lot of upgrades over the years and replaced the energy-sucking baseboard heaters with radiant ceiling panels. All utilities are covered by your rent.
No pets, sorry: The dog is about 12, super quiet and fat, and my experience with adding a cat to the existing cat (also adorable and mellow) is that your damage deposit ($400) will not be adequate to repair the carnage. I used to have chickens here, however, and I'll happily build a coop and help with feed costs if future roomies are eager to get fresh eggs back into rotation here: I do miss having those goofy bastards around!
I'm sober/boring but that doesn't mean you have to (or even should) be: I'm fine with booze in the house and whatever vaping/smoking you do, as long as it is outside, is fine with me.
About half of the renters here have been students and the genders equally divided. For whatever reason, people employed in fisheries (2), non-profits (2), and nursing trades (3) were the non-student renters here.
I'm a male construction goon, graduated WWU in 2009 (environmental science/sustainable design) and have been in this house
since 2007. My hobbies are guerrilla art, renegade habitat restoration, ambient anti-fascism, and a distressing amount of volunteer work focused hyper locally here in the Happy Valley 'hood. There's about 40 acres in nearby Connelly Creek Natural area that the dog and I wander daily (the trail to WWU connects at Joe's Gardens) but I otherwise am in the garage fussing with sculpture projects, writing manifestos or e-mails to the City of Bellingham -- nobody, including myself, can tell them apart -- or hanging out somewhere with my gf.
I'm fine with month-to-month and understand that you might need to graduate or flee the country at some point. But I do prefer renters who are committed to staying here in the 'Ham -- if a yearly lease is more comfortable for you, that's great.