Great household – welcome visitors friends house guests kids – bananas mangoes taro luau – Palolo (Shared Housing)

Summer sub – June, July, and August (or part – which part do you want?)

Palolo: The Pirie Deck is deck in the backyard with 2 canopy tents on it. Share 3/2 house with great group. Two green acres high on a hillside, lots of fruit trees, taro, hikes... , swing. It is fine to have more than one person. Total monthly costs (inc utilities, etc.) before student discount are $655 for one person, $1250 for 2, or $930 for married couple. And great discounts if you are a student, like $100 each for grad students. (It goes from $20 for freshmen up to $120 for postdocs.)

Transportation – a car is best. Bus and bike both tricky but not impossible.

It will be open from about 6/1 until about 8/31, but the tickets haven't been bought yet and there is still some flexibility. Plus if there is some overlap someone can sleep in living room or pop a tent. You can see some pictures if you use a funny search term - mhmango.

Please send me a msg, or call Ray (319) 321-5685.

The most exceptional part of this house is the setting in a grove of Norfolk Island pines. There are plenty of fruit trees like apple banana, solo papaya, and avocados. The access to the yard is easy trails, and there are play things like a killer rope swing, an imu pit, and BBQ. A 20 minute hike through the forest gets you up to the Lanipo ridge trail.

The main house is a 3/2 pole house with wrap around deck. The ceilings are high and there is a ridge vent that keeps the house cool all day. Most surfaces are natural redwood, cedar, oak, etc.

The place can be a little busy occasionally, with about 10 people counting drop-ins from other small houses on the compound and the always welcome houseguests. But it is very pleasant, safe, and dinner invitations abound. The roommates are a friendly group, mostly both working and going to school.

Overall it is a very sweet situation and very economical.



Pix:

Main house has great wrap around lanai
The Pirie Deck inside the sleeping area - other rooms are for your office and clothes
Fruit trees – mango, avocado, breadfruit
Flowers like orchids
Lots of BBQs, annual luau
Hike up to the swing
Apple bananas grow in the yard
Surfers loading up – all welcome to try
Surf club more fun and safer than alone
Surf supper for the hungry crew
Taro leaves to make luau – healthy food
Jackson's chameleon
House circled - trails in your yard
Sunset from front lanai
Harvest bananas and limes for daiquiris
Fish to be cooked in the imu

Ray

(Please tell me the color of the fish in the last pic so I know you are a human who can read, not some AI bot trying to sell my address.) Read More