Large Private BR, Semiprivate Garden Entry

2nd Fl redoration in progress. Photos are 1st Fl pre-redecoration. Common Areas: Cozy sitting room & refrigerator, bathroom with tub shower. See details below in "The Space" & "Guest Access" sections. This is for one bedroom on the 2nd Ff. Guests share first floor: huge country kitchen / dining room, large living room & large backyard, patio, furniture, washer, dryer. Message me stay in more bedrooms, full floor, or whole house or see our other listings in this house. Currently four bedrooms are available, but you can rent one, two or three as well. Please message me for details. This semi-private 3-bedroom suite occupies the entire second floor of our home and was just renovated. Two of the bedrooms are medium-large size and one is very big. All bedrooms have closets, individual air conditioning, a queen size bed or luxury air bed (super comfortable for most people), a dresser, desk, chair, mirror, lamps and rug. There is a small breakfast nook / sitting area with a refrigerator and full bathroom with a shower in tub. What do we mean by "semi-private"? Of course, you want to know! Please read all below: For the most part, you can come and go as you please without interacting with anyone else by using the rear door entry to the house that opens directly to the stairs up to the suite. There is another door at the top of the stairs for privacy. Guests staying on the first floor will also use the rear door from the first floor to go to the backyard or storage room where the clothes dryer is located. Your key also opens the front door (entry to the kitchen/dining/living room area and the storage room (to use the clothes dryer.) You can always choose enter the house through the front or rear door. Access the stairs to the suite is from the living room. The 1st floor kitchen, laundry, dining & living room, bathroom, backyard and patio are shared spaces. The bedrooms are private for the guests that rent them of course. Although the first floor also has its own newly renovated full bathroom, we request that guests on the first and second floors help each other out and allow use of their bathroom when needed. Kindly talk to each other about this. Don't forget, if you are entertaining visitors on the first floor, in the kitchen, dining area or living room, you may want them to use the first floor bathroom rather than walking up a flight of stairs. If you are only renting one or two of the bedrooms, we may rent the other bedrooms to other people, in which case the bathroom, breakfast/sitting area and refrigerator will be shared. If you want to ensure more privacy, you can increase your number of guests to 3 or 4 which will give you use of two bedrooms. To rent the entire suite, message me to discuss how to do that. By time you read this, we may have seperate listings for 2 Bedrooms, the entire 3-Bedroom suite or the entire 6-Bedroom house at a higher price. You can watch cable TV streaming throuh the included free WiFi to your phone, tablet or laptop. I may be installing real TVs in some or all of the rooms or in the sitting room shortly. The driveway is for loading and unloading only. There is plenty of street parking and there are no parking regulations in the neighborhood. The house is a few minutes drive from several Long Island Railroad Stations: Hicksville, Bethpage, Farmingdale. Each befroom features: Queen Bed or luxury, high Queen Air Bed Air Conditioner Windows Desk with Chair Lamp Large Closet Dresser Rug A starter stock of toiletries exclusively for you Lovely new bedding, linens and towels The House features: Washer & Dryer Quiet Tree-Lined Street Large Private Patio & Backyard Air Conditioned - All BRs & Main Floor Huge Country Kitchen Large Living Room & Country Kitchen / Dining Room Ceiling Fans in Living Room & Kitchen / Dining Room Smoking is allowed on the large outdoor patio but not in the house Fully equipped kitchen: flatware, glasses, plates, pots, pans, utensils, etc. Summer 2017: A recent new law in the Town of Hempstead bans residential rentals of less than 28 days. If you want to book for less than 28 days, contact me for alternative arrangements or locations. NYS Law requires me to disclose this: I am the Homeowner and also a licensed NYS Real Estate Broker operating as Ellis Group, Ltd.; but, I am not acting as a broker in this transaction and although Airbnb may be charging a fee, I am not charging a real estate fee or commission. This is a shared house and that allows us to offer budget accomodations. The owner is there only part time but there are usually other guests. Each of the two floors has three bedrooms and one full bathroom with a shower in tub. This listing is only for the suite of three bedrooms and one bathroom on the second floor. EXCLUSIVE GUEST USE: Only the bedroom(s) you rent. This listing is for the Center Bedroom on the second floor, across the hall from the bathroom and immediately to the right at the top of the stairs. OWNER USE ONLY: The storage room (except guests may use the clothes dryer there), storage shed, front yard, driveway, side yards, two closets in the second floor common area hall and sitting room. SHARED USE: These areas are all on the first floor of the house and are shared with all other guests: Living Room, Eat-In Kitchen/Dining area, Laundry, Pantry, Front entrance, Rear entrance, Rear yard and patio. The washer is in the kitchen and the dryer is in the storage room. Access to the storage room is from the patio door to the right of the rear entry door. Your house key will open the front, rear and storage room doors. PARTIAL SHARED USE: The second floor breakfast nook / sitting area and refrigerator are shared only with other guests, if any, staying in second floor bedrooms. There are two newly renovated bathrooms in the house, each with a tub in shower. The second floor bathroom is generally for the use of guests staying in the second floor bedrooms, while the bathroom on the first floor is mostly for the the first floor guests. When conditions make it necessary, for example if several people are trying to get out to an event, work, or are entertaining, guests may request to use the bathroom on each others' floor. Please be considerate of the natural desire for privacy everyone has. Please see details above in the "The Space" section. OTHER GUESTS, PHOTOS, CONDITION, CLEANING, etc. You should be aware that the other guests could be of opposite gender from you. More often than not, all the Levittown residents are men. I've found in the past that women are particularly sensitive to mixed-gender sharing and are often uncomfortable with that. If this is going to be an issue for you, be sure to discuss it with me ahead of time. We don't guarantee the future gender mix but can tell you what we have reserved. General message applying to all bedrooms: As mentioned earlier in the Listing Description, we have not yet uploaded photos of this listing. The one bedroom shown is the first we listed; it is on the ground floor and does not look like the others. All of the second floor bedrooms are larger and have been recently (2018-19) redecorated, some more than others, but in all cases new double curtains (sheer and room darkening on double rods), fresh paint, desk, desk chair, lighting, dresser, mirror. The bathroom was newly renovated with all new fixtures during that time period. Some, not all, of the bedrooms have new LED lighting or new closets. We will hopefully complete redecoration and renovation in the near future, including rugs or flooring, a third bathroom and new laundry room. The floors and rugs are a bit older but in usable condition. Cleaning: All linens and towels are freshly cleaned before your arrival and are relatively new. Your cleaning fee is meant to cover preparing your room before you arrive. It does not mean we are providing general or regular cleaning of the common areas. We do periodically have cleaners clean the common areas of the house it the responsibility of the guests in a shared house to cooperate with each other to keep the place clean. Our specific rules for this are covered in the house rules. You can request we send those to you for your review before you complete a reservation. I will be available by phone or email. Shopping and Entertainment nearby: NASSAU MALL / LEVITTOWN PLAZA is located on Hempstead Turnpike (just west of North Wantagh Avenue and east of Jerusalem Avenue). It includes: BJ's Wholesale Club, Best Buy, an AMC 10-plex movie theater, Kohl's, Sports Authority, TGI Friday's, Old Navy, Wendy's, Fortune Wheel Seafood, DSW, Five Guys Burgers & Fries, Party City, Michaels, Geek Squad, LA Fitness, and a mall with others. Hempstead Turnpike has many, many stores and restaurants in both directions. Nassau University Medical Center is a few miles to the west. The charming Village of Farmingdale is a lovely, walkable old town village, just a couple of miles to the east on Hempstead Turnpike Long Island's world class South Shore beaches are all easily accessible from the house. For the closest and most famous - Jones Beach State Park - look at the Directions section of this listing and start taking the Southern State route in reverse. Daily parking fee is $10. Travel south on North Wantagh Avenue and take the Southern State Parkway West. Then take the Wantagh Parkway South and follow the signs to Jones Beach. There are many parking fields and it's your choice as to which to use. Look up the official website for Jones Beach State Park and look for the Comprehensive Jones Beach map. I suggest doing a quick web search before you go as each parking field and beach there has its own character, for example. Here's one cool review on Yelp: Growing up with Jones Beach as your "home" beach you go through phases. Maybe as a kid you came to field 6. You loved walking down the boardwalk to the crowded area. Or sometimes you would go to field 5, and hang out in Zach's Bay. As a teen and through college, you realize that the crowded area is accessible via field 4. So once you start driving, you prefer field 4. Plus by the time you get to the beach, well the field 6 lot is full. Now you are married and perhaps with a kid on the way. Well all of a sudden field 6 is back in your life. Its quiet enough. Parking is closer to the actual beach. So no need to drag all the beach toys through that long tunnel. And you get there earlier because well the kid needs a nap around 2. I'm guessing I'll be at field 6 until my daughter begs me to park at field 4 because her friends are there. You have everything you need here. Towels, chairs, restrooms and showers. They've added this long carpeted walkway towards the beach. Its a nice touch. The sand is clean and well the water is there too. Plus Jones Beach is a state park so its usually cheaper to go here than a town's beach. Buses in Nassau County operate as Nassau Inter-County Express (NICE) Bus under a public-private partnership between Nassau County and Veolia Transportation. The nearby NICE Bus Route 80 extends from the Hicksville LIRR (near Hicksville Mall) on the north to Sunrise Mall, East Massapequa on the south. The nearby NICE Bus Routes 70, 71 and 72 traverse Hempstead Turnpike connecting to the central terminal in Hempstead Village on the west and Melville (Suffolk County), Sunrise Mall and SUNY Farmingdale College respectively to the east, south and east. To find all schedules and bus route maps search http : // (Website hidden by Airbnb) or https : / / www dot nassaucountyny dot gov slash 2620 slash Transportation. I have to spell it out that way because Airbnb bots remove anything that looks like an attempt to communicate off-site, in this case another website. • The NICE Bus network links communities via 49 routes in Nassau County, western Queens and eastern Suffolk County. • In 2012, LI Bus carried 30 million passengers. • LI Bus Fleet includes over 300 fixed route buses and more than 90 para-transit vehicles. There are three Long Island Railroad Stations within a few minutes drive of the house: Bethpage, Farmingdale and Hicksville. For directions to the Hicksville stateion, see the Directions section of this listing and follow the "SHOPPING AND DINING ROUTE" in reverse. The Hicksville station will be on your left toward the end of the Jerusalem Avenue section of the route. MetroCard is the light, plastic card that allows you to pay your fare electronically on all NICE Bus routes and New York City Transit buses and subways. You can choose between several kinds of MetroCard to pay your NICE Bus fare: Base MetroCard Fare – $2.50 (Cash Fare: $2.25) Reduced MetroCard Fare - $1.25 (Cash Fare: $1.10) 7-Day Unlimited – $30 30-Day Unlimited – $112 Pay-Per-Ride Bonus: An additional 5% is added to your MetroCard with the purchase or addition of $5 or more. Fee for purchase of a new MetroCard – $1 -Fee applies to each new MetroCard purchased at station booth, vending machine or commuter rail station. If you register for one or two guests, you may only use one bedroom, the one to the left as you enter the upstairs suite. If you register for more three or four guests, you may also use the center bedroom on the second floor. Both bedrooms are a nice size I would call medium-large. There is a very large third bedroom that can fit two more queen beds or air beds and an additional four guests. If you want to use that as well, the additional charges shown will apply but you need to contact me first to unlock the maximum number of guests because we have not finished renovating that third bedroom. The entire 3-Bedroom second floor suite is available for long term rental.