Co-Living, explained without the marketing
A private bedroom in a house you share with a few other adults. One flat monthly payment. Here is exactly what that means, what's included, and what it's genuinely like.
You get a private bedroom. You share the kitchen and the living room.
That's it. That's co-living. Everything else is detail.
You sign your own lease for your own room — you are not on the hook for a roommate's rent, and you are not chasing anybody for their share of the electric bill. You pay us one number, weekly or monthly, and we handle every utility plus Google Fiber. The room already has a bed and a dresser in it.
The trade you're making is square footage for cost and simplicity. At $620 a month with every bill included, a private room in a good neighborhood costs a fraction of a one-bedroom apartment in the same neighborhood — and the lease is month to month, not fourteen.
One flat monthly number. No surprise bills, no winter spike, no chasing anybody.
Included in your rent
- Electricity, water and gas — every utility, no account in your name
- Google Fiber internet, already installed and working on day one
- Your room comes furnished — full-size bed frame and mattress, a dresser, and a closet
- Fully furnished common areas — living room, kitchen, dining, entertainment room and two covered patios
- A stocked kitchen — pots, pans, dishes and utensils are already there
- Cleaning supplies for the shared spaces
- Lawn care and exterior upkeep
- Maintenance and repairs, at no cost to you
You can move in with a suitcase. No utility deposits, no waiting on an internet install, no buying a bed.
Not included — bring your own
- Bedding, pillows, towels and toiletries
- Your groceries — and your own plates if you'd rather not share
- Renters insurance, which we ask every resident to carry
- Your share of keeping the common areas clean — that's the house's job, together
Bathrooms
Bathrooms are shared between a small group of rooms, and each listing says which. If a bathroom ends up being yours alone, rent goes up by $125 a month — we tell you that before you sign rather than after.
Three ways to pay. Same room, same rent — pick the rhythm that matches your paycheck.
Most people getting a room need to line rent up with how they actually get paid. So you can pay weekly, every two weeks, or monthly.
Weekly payments
| Deposit | $150 |
|---|---|
| Utilities | Included |
| Google Fiber | Included |
Biweekly payments
| Deposit | $250 |
|---|---|
| Utilities | Included |
| Google Fiber | Included |
Monthly payments
| Deposit | $480 |
|---|---|
| Utilities | Included |
| Google Fiber | Included |
What sharing a house is actually like.
The first two weeks are a little awkward
They are for everybody. You're learning when people shower, who cooks at night, whose food is whose. It settles quickly. Almost nobody who makes it a month has a problem after that.
You and your housemates keep the common areas up
We don't send a cleaner, and your rent isn't inflated to pay for one. Instead there's a written rotation: one assignment a week — kitchen, living room, hallways and trash, or a bathroom — and it rotates, so nobody is stuck with the same job forever.
Dishes and countertops get handled within a few hours of using them, and nothing personal stays in the common areas overnight. Miss your week and there's a $30 fee. You can also just tell us in advance that you'd rather pay it than clean — that's allowed, and it's better than leaving your housemates to cover you.
Fines go into a house fund, not our pocket
This is the part people don't believe until they read the agreement. Every fee collected for a missed chore or a house-rule violation goes into a shared house fund — and it can only be spent on things the house benefits from. Cleaning supplies, a repair, a cookout, a movie night.
The residents vote on how it gets spent, the ledger is open to everyone in the house, and statements go out monthly. We don't take a dollar of it.
Who lives in our houses: working adults. People starting over, people who just moved for a job, people saving for a down payment, people who don't want to sign a long lease alone. Everyone goes through the same screening, and everyone signs the same house standards.
Five steps, and a real person on the phone for all of them.
Find a room on the Available Now page
The rent is on the card — $155 weekly, $310 biweekly or $620 monthly. We don't make you fill out a form to find out the price.
Call or send the inquiry form
Six fields, and it goes straight to an owner's phone. Tell us the room and your move-in date.
We talk on the phone
Ten minutes. We tell you about the house and the people in it, you tell us about you, and we both find out fast whether it's a fit.
Application and screening
Income, rental history, background check. Same standard for everyone. We tell you exactly what we need before you start.
Sign, pay, get keys
Month-to-month lease, 30 days' notice to leave. Your deposit and first payment are due at signing — no application fee, no admin fee. We hand over keys and the Google Fiber password the same day you move in.