How's this ad look for the downstairs apartment?

[rmd]

Market rate for Somerville is $1300/mo, but that price is probably heavily skewed by property prices around Davis and Porter, so I think $1150 is probably about right for my neighborhood. How does this sound for an ad for a couple of mailing lists and dslj?

The 1 bedroom/1 bath downstairs apartment in my multi-family house is going up for rent as of the beginning of April, $1150/mo. It's a 1br in Somerville over near City Hall and Sarma. It's the first floor of a typical owner-occupied 3 story/2 family Victorian style Somerville house. Nice porch, fairly quiet one-way street, close to several bus routes. Oil heat and hot water. In-unit washer/dryer included. Gas stove. Not wheelchair accessible - there are a few stairs up to the front and back (well, side) porches. Well behaved pets are okay. On-street parking - parking is generally available on the block.

ETA: added "owner-occupied" and "2-family", removed reference to potential green line stop

Comments

[wotw]

Although....I can still imagine a reader
wondering whether "first floor" is a euphemism
for "not *entirely* underground". An adjective
like "sunny" (if appropriate) would allay this
fear. Or again --- maybe nobody else will read
it this way.

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

I actually wondered this myself.

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

I would say that "first floor" and "typical 3 story, 2 family Victorian in Somerville" do not lead those in the area to think that the apartment in question is a basement apartment.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I think that indicating it's a typical S'ville Victorian house is likely to provide a lot of information to folks. It's not quite as cookie-cutter a design in the area as "triple decker", but it's close.

It's quite common for single-family 3 floor houses to get broken up like this one, where the first floor is an apartment and the 2nd and 3rd floors are another apartment.