Andrea N - $1,200/month
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I do hands-on and remote healing work, teach meditation and Qigong, brainiac researcher and writer working to save the world, mostly pescetarian/mostly organic. I rent office space in Santa Monica, travel to client’s homes, do sessions from home via zoom (in my room), and occasionally see clients here in the livingroom (since covid, only one regular client a couple times per month). I’m usually at home in my room working on my computer when I’m not out doing sessions or running errands or hiking / having fun.
I have had coronavirus 3 times in 5 years (treated at home with safe and effective alternative treatments), so I have natural immunity, which is better than vaccine immunity. I prefer a roommate who also has natural immunity and didn't take the shots. I have rheumatoid arthritis, which is an auto-immune condition (not contagious), and because auto-immune conditions are one of the many terrible side-effects of the covid shots, I will not be getting them, and prefer a roommate who also hasn’t and does not intend to.
Because I was exposed to mold in 2007, my immune system blew out, so I'm allergic to cats and dogs, have multiple chemical sensitivities, and am electro-sensitive. So I moved to the woods to get away from cell phone towers, and I don' have WiFi in my home. I cannot tolerate chlorine bleach or Lysol-type commercial disinfectants, and prefer to disinfect with hydrogen peroxide, Simple Green, Oxy-Clean, MMS, essential oils, and other non-toxic household cleaners. I still hug people and shake hands because I trust my (over-active) immune system. I only wear a mask when required for entry into a store or other place of business.
I’m fine with real Essential Oils and burning small amounts of White Sage and Palo Santo, but I can't handle any kind of incense. I need a roommate who does not smoke tobacco ~ I will smell it on your clothes and your breath and get a tox reaction headache. Smoking yummie green leaf in your bedroom or out on the front deck is fine, as long as you keep the smoke out of shared spaces. If you like to use heavily-scented bodycare products, we are not going to be a good fit unless they’re all scented with real Essential Oils. If you are not chemically sensitive, you will be shocked at how many soaps and bodycare products and household cleaning products have synthetic / carcinogenic fragrances that cause me a tox reaction and cannot be used here.
| Move in Date | Aug 2024 |
| Lease Duration | |
| Age | 61 |
| Occupation | Holistic Healing Practitioner |
| Education | College |
| Relationship Status | Single |
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Hiking / Beach in Minutes! Seeking Unvaxxed Roommate
Private Bedroom for rent in 2 Bedroom 1 Bathroom 2nd Floor Upstairs Apartment in Old Topanga Canyon.
Available now ahead of September 1st, 2024.
$1200/month + Split Utilities, asking first and last and $500 Deposit.
Building is all electric, so exempt from rolling blackouts.
High-Speed Internet is Spectrum Cable, 62 Mbps download.
Canyon neighborhood has no street-sweeping, so no parking tickets for that.
No tobacco smokers / drinking / drugs, no pets, one adult only.
LGB friendly, 420 friendly, prefer no alcohol.
LOCATION:
5 minutes to closest hiking trails, 10 minutes to Topanga State Beach and PCH, 12 minutes to Calabasas, Woodland Hills, Ventura Blvd, and 101 Freeway, 20 to 30 minutes to Malibu or Santa Monica or Westwood, 30 minutes to Venice, and the commute is worth it so you can be grounded in nature in this beautiful canyon. Near good surfing, hiking, mountain-biking, horse-riding.
YOUR ROOM:
Unfurnished Private Bedroom in an otherwise furnished apartment. The 1960s building is old and worn, but has large rooms, and everything works. Your room is 13 x 10, gets morning sun, and has a view of trees and Topanga Creek, a full-size closet, and an extra linen/storage closet. 146 square feet is counting closet space.
The room will be empty except for a small organizer cabinet and shelves in the closet, an over-door rack of clothes hooks, a curtain rod with burgundy curtain, a space heater, a fan, a full-length mirror you can place wherever you want, and an ethernet cable to an internet router with four slots for plugging in to the internet.
COMMON AREAS:
Share bathroom, kitchen, and living/dining-room. The kitchen has a good amount of counter space and a stove and refrigerator. There is now a full-size portable dishwasher!!! There is no microwave oven, and I want to keep it that way.
Stovetop/oven is electric, and there is a small programmable oven that can make toast or cook frozen pizzas. There is also a George Foreman grill to cook with.
The bathroom has a shower/bathtub combo with shower water filter and a large space heater.
Livingroom/dining area is furnished, except could use a couple more dining chairs (there are only two). Livingroom has an old-fashioned Sony sound system (plays CDs and cassettes) and enough space to do Yoga/Qigong/T’ai Chi (no coffee table to keep exercise space open). There is no TV in the livingroom, but there's a 32" monitor, so you could plug in your laptop to stream movies.
CONNECTIVITY:
NO WIFI allowed for health reasons – great for electro-sensitive people! Spectrum for hard-wired high-speed internet to every room and the front deck. Speedtest dot net currently shows 62 Mbps download and 10 Mbps upload. There is a daisy-chained router in your room with 4 ethernet slots – one for your computer, one for your cell phone, and you have 2 more open ethernet slots for internet access, such as an iPad, or if a friend visits and wants to plug in their phone or laptop. This place is in a canyon, so cell reception depends on your carrier and your phone. I will help you set up a Google Voice account as a backup to ethernet phone connection. If you already have VOIP, such as Vonage or 2ndLine, it will work through existing internet.
PARKING – STORAGE – LAUNDRY:
You get one parking spot in the lot (not reserved, first come first serve), and your guests have easy street parking. There are never any street sweeping parking tickets in this neighborhood!!! There is room for locking a bicycle behind my car in the carport, but no room for outside storage. This building has NO laundry room because it’s on a septic system. Nearest laundromat is 12 minutes away on Topanga Canyon Blvd just south of Ventura Blvd.
AIR CONDITIONING AND HEATING:
Your room has a box fan and an instant-on parabolic space heater. Living/Dining area has a window air-conditioner, and we only need to use it on very hot days because the insulation is so good here – it’s usually 10 to 15 degrees cooler inside. Winters are cold here! The electric bill goes up for heating in winter because we use space heaters and the oven.
WATER – UTILITIES:
I buy fluoride-free drinking water from House of Living Water or Drinking Water Depot and haul it up the hill. Your share of utilities will be about $40-$80 for electric (summer as low as $35, winter much higher because of heating), $50 for internet, and $4 for drinking water. There is no gas bill, this apartment is all electric. Because it’s all electric, this building is exempt from rolling blackouts!
PATIO DECK – BACK YARD – GARDENING:
There is a patio deck right outside our front door with seating and potted plants. There is plenty of room for more plants there, and I’d rather not have any plants inside because the potting soil can grow mold. The ethernet cable in the livingroom is 100 ft long and reaches out to the patio.
Back yard has a picnic table, new yoga deck, and new gazebo with cute seating area near the garden, the creek, the mountain. You’re welcome to claim a spot to do some gardening inside a wire-mesh-enclosed garden that keeps out rabbits and birds.
The yoga deck has enough room for 6 or 7 people to take yoga class. You’re welcome to teach a class here, as long as it’s not too loud, and your guests don’t park in the lot.
NEIGHBORHOOD:
Topanga town center is 5 minutes away and has The Inn of the Seventh Ray restaurant (4 stars!) with adjoining Spiral Staircase metaphysical bookstore, more restaurants, cute coffee shops, gift shops, crystal shops, a yoga studio and art studios, live music and open mic nights, a well-stocked old-timey General Store, a newer gourmet grocery, two more little markets, Hidden Treasures thrift store, plus post office, fairly new library, and Owl Falls waterfall at Jalan Jalan Imports.
Lovely walk up to a lookout point with benches to sit on and great views of the canyon starts just steps outside the door. Access to hiking/biking trails in Topanga State Park and Red Rock State Park is just 5 minutes away. Farmer’s Markets on Fridays at Topanga Community Center and Saturdays in old town Calabasas.
GUESTS:
I am fine with overnight guests, as long as they’re staying just 1 to 3 nights at a time, and not moving in, and you clean up after them. You are welcome to have guests stay either in your room or on the futon in the livingroom. Please alert them to my chemical sensitivities and ask them not to wear cologne or perfume. If they’re going to be showering here, please offer them your non-toxic soap/shampoo/conditioner to prevent me suffering a tox reaction from their bodycare products. I sometimes have guests stay here too, usually only one night at a time, in the livingroom.
FENG SHUI:
The front door faces due North, which is excellent. My room has the Prosperity corner. Your room has the Romance corner, which is why the curtain is burgundy red. It works! Several of my former roommates have started relationships while living here. Toilet lid must be kept down to support my small business (and yours?) because it’s in the “Fame and Recognition” zone and it’s bad for business for the South/Fire energy to run down the toilet. Because of the dirt parking lot, this is a shoes-off home to minimize need for vacuuming. There is a shoe bench near the front door where you can store a few pairs of shoes.
TERMS:
Rent is Month-to-Month, with intention of staying at least a few months.
References please!
Free Astrology compatibility check and credit check.
I’m a Leo and get along better with fire, air, and earth signs.
Building owners will need to approve your rental application and will want you to sign with them as well as me.
| Rent: | $1,200 |
| Address: | Topanga, CA 90290, USA |
| Type: | Walk Up |
| Furniture: | Shared Space Only |
| Bedrooms: | 2 |
| Baths: | 0 |
| Pets: | No Pets |
