Jordan Mooney's room

Sandringham, Auckland 1025

We’re away from the 10th December until late February, and we’re looking for the right people to take our place while we’re gone.

WHAT YOU GET

• The entire upstairs to yourself.
• A bedroom with a queen, plus a second room we use as our own private lounge (we call it the playroom) that fits a queen as well. So it’s either a very good spare room or a second bedroom. (We have a spare full queen bed.)
• Your own bathroom up there (toilet and basin).
• The shower is shared with the two downstairs, which has genuinely never once been an issue, because we all run on different schedules.

As a couple with a ridiculous amount of clothes, we can tell you storage is not going to be your problem here. Two double wardrobes that keep going well past where the doors suggest, under-bed drawers, two chests of drawers. We’re emptying all of it and storing our stuff. The wardrobes, drawers, the lot, so you can properly unpack and live here rather than camp around our things.

All the furniture stays, including my beloved modular couch in the playroom. Linen and towels provided.

Shared kitchen, lounge, laundry, deck and a small lawn with a picnic table. Full run of the house, same as anyone living here. The barbecue gets a workout from about now until March.

THE PRACTICAL BITS

• $520 a week total. For a couple that’s $260 each.
• Power, internet and water on top, roughly $125 per person every four weeks. About $31 a week each.
• One week bond and one week in advance, $1,040 up front.
• 9 December to 24 February, with some flexibility at both ends.
• Morningside train station is a 5 minute walk. Kingsland about 7.
• We have fibre internet and it’s genuinely as fast as internet gets.
• Double glazed windows. It’s quiet, yet very close to central.
• Washing machine and dryer. Heat pump in the lounge, and upstairs stays warm on its own.
• One off-street park, plus easy parking on the street.
• Great coffee just down the road, a lovely park for walks, and you will hear birds in the morning.

Ideally a couple. One person taking the whole upstairs at $520 is very welcome too. Two friends would work.

What we’re after is simple: people who’ll look after the place. We’re proud of this house. No big parties, though Caitlin and Daz work in hospo, so you’re not moving in with the fun police either.

Viewings from now. Message me and I’ll sort a time. There’s already a bit of interest, so if this sounds like yours, say so early.

Downstairs are Caitlin and Daz, who work in hospo and are mostly on late nights. I’ll be honest. They’re the easiest people I’ve ever lived with. You can do your own thing and it never feels weird, or you can get stuck into the best chats. Both feel great. That balance is rare, and it’s a lot of why we love this house.

And then there’s the bestest boy in the world, Zuko. He’s a border collie husky cross, and he’s three years old. He loves pats, pats, pats and pats. Also being played with, and being walked. Caitlin and Daz look after him while we’re away, so he’s not your job, he’s your bonus. You’re more than welcome to give him as much or as little as you like. Fair warning though: there is dog hair, and he will want your attention.

Honestly, Jaime and I are the kind of people who’d accidentally end up friends with whoever takes this. We wouldn’t be surprised if you had to stay in touch afterwards just to get Zuko visits.

As we wrote this, we realised how genuinely lucky we really are. We’re really going to miss this place during the time we’re away. (Not to mention Zuko.) (And Caitlin and Daz.)