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International students especially encouraged. Rooms for rent in a friendly, clean, quiet, studious, non-smoking, well-managed and maintained building, located in Seattle's University District just 1 block north of the University of Washington campus and 3 blocks east of University Way, supermarket and bus routes.
WORLD HOUSE is a four-story building with 26 bedrooms, four kitchens, and six bathrooms (see the photo section). There is a kitchen on every floor. All six bathrooms have showers and three of them have bathtubs. The bottom and top floors have one bathroom each and the middle two floors both have two bathrooms. Any resident can use any bathroom or kitchen on any floor. More than 90% of the time one will be able to use a bathroom on one's own floor. Occasionally a tenant may have to go to another floor to use the bathroom if the bathrooms on their floor are full.
WORLD HOUSE maintains excellent cleanliness standards through resident selection, consistent standards and professional cleaning. WORLD HOUSE is professionally cleaned once a week. The housecleaner cleans all six bathrooms, vacuums the hallways and stairwells, cleans the entryway and laundry room and cleans the yard in front of the building. Each kitchen is cleaned by the residents of that floor on a rotating basis. Each resident will clean the kitchen approximately once every 4-10 weeks depending on how many people live on that floor and scheduling concerns. Every week a resident is scheduled a 48-hour block of time (Sunday-Monday) in which to clean the kitchen. Cleaning the kitchen takes from 15 minutes to an hour. Beginning on the Sunday the resident is scheduled to clean and ending on the following Friday the resident is responsible for taking out the garbage whenever it becomes full. The garbage usually needs to be taken out is 1-3 per week.
Residents are about 1/2 international students, 1/2 U.S. citizens, 1/2 women, 1/2 men. Ages range from about 18-35 with most people in their mid-twenties. There are weekly, house-organized social activities for those interested in attending.
All rooms can be furnished at no extra cost(bed, desk, chair, private small refrigerator, TV, clock, radio, phone, mirror, bookshelf, wastebasket, wall art, silverware, dishes, cooking utensils, blankets, pillows, umbrella, exercise machine, etc.!) or non-furnished. WORLD HOUSE supplies residents with many amenities such as toilet paper, paper towels, dish towels, dishwashing soap, replacement light bulbs, etc. All rooms have private phone lines, and cable-TV lines.
There is a coin-operated washer and dryer in the building. Both the washer and the dryer require 4 quarter per load of laundry.
There is a large, secure bicycle rack in front of WORLD HOUSE with the capacity to secure about 8 bicycles and plenty free space.
There is room for a vegetable and/or flower garden in front of the building which is currently not being used. This space is available for any prospective gardening tenants.
Para información en español, por favor mande usted un email (worldhouse@comcast.net) al manager o contactele por teléfono (206) 729-9519.