2925 Helena St, Houston, TX 77006

The charming and historic 1910 carriage house with its white picket fence and private landscaped courtyard in Montrose/Midtown is a stand-alone 2-story house of over 1000 sf. For decades, it has been great home for college professors and post-docs and for young opera-singing couples and symphony musicians, a few young lawyers, and others who appreciate more character, space, and privacy than the sardine's life offered by the countless glossy sterile apartments of Midtown. We'd love to attract another tenant from academia or the arts, but any interesting person may apply, even downtown 9-5ers. Management is by the easy-to-discuss-things-with next-door retired artists owners, not a hard to locate impersonal out-of-state management company or every-month-is-different 10-4 (with 2 hour lunch) super in an office three buildings away, who is going to fabricate some excuse to keep your deposit when you leave. The downstairs includes the living room with its oak parquet floors, built-in shelves and storage cabinets, the kitchen with all appliances, and a large walk-in closet. Upstairs, you'll have the huge Berber carpeted bedroom, the bathroom, a very large walk-in closet, and a washer/dryer. The home has central air and heat. The tenant pays electricity and gas. The owners supply water and fast internet service and will maintain the courtyard and all outside areas. Optional furnishings include a queen size bed, shelves, a chest of drawers, 2 desks and file cabinet, a leather couch, a futon couch/bed, dining table & chairs, kitchen utensils, dishes, etc. Our carriage house has its own address, its own street fronting, and the tenant is given one off-street parking space. The convenient location is 2 blocks from a quick-to-downtown bus stop, 12 blocks from the Main/McGowan St. train station, 1 mile from downtown, 2 miles from Rice U., 3 miles from U. Houston, and 3 miles from the Med Center. It is available now for a gentle non-smoking tenant or couple. (It is not well configured for roommates). If you have a pet, we can talk about it, but a medium to large dog needs a different home. I'd love to show it to you, so please send an email message to Tom stating a little about yourself and your occupation. Include your full name, your phone number, and your email address. If I haven't contacted you within 1 day, you may call me at 8AM-8PM. TEXT inquiries will likely not be addressed! If this listing is still here, this property has not yet rented. Any message asking only about availability will not be answered, so please do more than click a Zillow pre-written question. Agents, managers, other owners, etc.: Please do not inquire about so-called corporate master sub-lease arrangements, about co-hosting or air b-and-b'ing it or about buying the property. [Photos in Zillow listing are not necessarily current. Some furnishings are different, etc.] Seeking 1-year lease, but other terms are negotiable. For instance: a furnished summer rental with all bills paid is available for law-firm or other interns!