Need a cool place to live?

Really nice two-bedroom duplex available in a beautiful, quiet, and convenient location (8 minutes by car from downtown Minneapolis doing the 30 mph limit down Glenwood, in Golden Valley). Spanish architecture, hardwood floors, fireplace, a patio you'll split with us, your only immediate neighbors, garage for one car, central air and heat, trees all around, front and back yard, free snowplowing of the gravel driveway, lawnmowing, free laundry machines, and free garbage (though you have to haul it to the neighboring apartment building)... UPDATE: I'm happy to report that the place has been filled as of Dec. 1...

Here's the story: A month ago we found out our neighbors had cleared out of our next-door duplex rental (we're not the landlords), and Toasty and I have been trying to find a friendly couple (or single) ever since. There's still no "for rent" sign in front, so I imagine it hasn't been looked at. My only old-man preference is to find somebody who doesn't host huge parties more than a few times a year, and who's cool with not blasting the megabass (on the TV or stereo) through the wall unless we're gone. (We work 9-5, basically.)

Otherwise, it's a thick wall, and we never had any complaints for (or from) our old neighbors, who so far as I could tell watched TV every night until 10. (Good architecture.) We're planning a Christmas party ourselves this year, too, so we'll give you some advance notice.

We pay $900 for our place plus utilities, and I imagine the other one would be around that (it's slightly bigger, I hear). The basement is damp (though not wet), and parts of the house are crumbling, and I'm busy hauling a lot of wood junk from the back yard, but the owners fix and replace things, and the apartment itself looks new and fine. We're near Theodore Wirth Beach and park, bike trails, deer, fly fishing. There's an infrequent bus, too, though the city just took out the shelter. I really love living there, and I bet somebody else would, too.

Feel free to forward this to friends who can call or email me for details, address, etc: 612.372.3764. I especially recommend the location to Africans, as there are a lot in the neighborhood.