Loxford Street

Professional flat just outside the city centre - technically it’s in Hulme but five minutes’ walk in one direction and you’re on Oxford Road, ten minutes in the other and you’re at Deansgate tram station.

The pictures of the room should be fairly self-explanatory. It’s a quiet building, residents are mostly professionals and small families. Fair warning, the road outside can get a bit rowdy occasionally, as students pass it on their way to town, but that’s about as crazy as it gets. (Sometimes if you’re lucky you can see some weird stuff - my highlight was four young guys wordlessly tugging a pristine bathtub back to their accommodation at about 3 in the morning.)

We each have a desk in the living room - you’d be inheriting my outgoing housemate’s. You can feel free to utilise it (or not) at your leisure.

HATE to sound like a half-hearted dating profile, but I’m not sure what else to say about the room immediately, so if you have any questions, feel free to ask! (The TV is going with my outgoing housemate, I think. Sorry!)

As for me, my name’s Jak, I’m a copywriter working in Blackburn (working on changing that ASAP), so I’m out most nights until about 7pm as that’s when I’m back from work. I WFH on Fridays though, and finish much earlier, about 2pm.

I do a lot with my spare time, arguably too much, so I tend to be out a fair amount during the week and then if I’m not seeing people I crash in the flat at the weekend. I’m not a smoker, and I rarely drink these days, but have no issue with anyone else doing it - as long as nothing in the flat ends up smelling like cannabis or cigarette smoke, but we have a handy balcony for that.

It’s a two-bed flat so you’d be living in quite close proximity to me, so we’d need to be prepared to communicate regarding visitors, noise, use of the living room etc. (Visitors especially.) They’re not scary conversations though :) Increasingly easier as I’m getting older, I find!

Fairly big point - I’ve discovered over the years that we need to keep the place clean and tidy, largely because otherwise it’s easy to make each other deal with mess we’ve made. Personally I don’t hugely mind the odd bit of untidiness (a stack of papers for example), but I do mind Mess with a capital M, like food stains and stuff like that.

My general yardstick is that if I’d prefer not to have to move or tidy or clean something of yours in order to get on with my night (moving stuff off the hobs for example, or cleaning takeaway sauces off the coffee table), and I always want to try and make an effort to ensure you don’t have to either.