Hi! We’re Swamp Dog Hobble (named after a native plant 🌱).

We’re a communal house (a house! a community!) in Flatbush, and a few of us are leaving. Maybe you’d like to live here. Here are some basic specs:

We're looking for three new members to join the community and sign a new lease at the same address beginning December 1, though we can work with move-in before or after that date.

Three bathrooms, seven bedrooms, one tiny guest room (the Panic Room), two kitchens, at least four common rooms, a full basement with drums, guitars, keyboards, amps, etc.

Also: washer/dryer, large porch, large garage with woodshop, backyard, raised bed gardens, gazebo.

Lastly: ~1000 books, grand piano. We live near Brooklyn College, at the end of the 2/5 lines. Average monthly cost of living is ~$1400 (rent accounts for 1200 of that figure), though it fluctuates from person to person. That fluctuation doesn’t have to do with the qualities of this or that room; instead, we pay in proportion to income, and general financial anxiety. Also, that number includes not only utilities, but also utilities and groceries, the cost of which is always shared. So yeah, this communal house thing. Basically, we like to be involved in each other’s lives. We sit down at least once a week for dinner together, we check in with each other, we paint rooms new colors; there’s big dinner parties, live shows in the basement, Fried Chicken Sundays when the weather’s right; we like projects, we like to do stuff; we draw in the stairways, bake bread, move furniture around; every friday we cook about 20 gallons of food and take it down to a distribution center for the city’s migrant population. What else?

There’s CDs or records playing on the first floor all the time. Everyone’s always in the middle of telling a story. For a while we kept running out of Cholula, but we’ve got that figured out now. We aim for seven in the house.

If this fits what you're looking for, write to us at the email below and share your responses to some/all of these prompts:
What is your name, and what pronouns do you use?
Why do you want to live here?

How do you express your creativity?
Tell us about a time you engaged with someone who had significant difference in values from
you (beyond pineapple on pizza)
And of course, what are your thoughts on the revolution?
We're excited to hear from you, to get to know you better, and to meet your curiosity.

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