Room Ina Boudier-Bakkerlaan, Utrecht - For Rent

This listing concerns a room of 13 square meters in a shared student house on the Ina Boudier-Bakkerlaan in Utrecht. The room is part of a household of fourteen housemates who share a communal living room where films are watched, games are played, and meals are cooked together. The household works with a weekly rotation of household tasks, complemented by an evening task every other week. The monthly net rent is €305.73, with service costs of €112.52 covering items such as electricity, water, heating, cooking gas, internet, contents insurance, caretaker services, and cleaning of the communal areas. The gross monthly rent payable to SSH amounts to €418.25, and with the maximum housing allowance of €102.00, the rent comes down to €316.25 per month.

The house, known as Huize Rode Leeuw, describes itself as a close-knit group that organizes recurring activities each year, including a Christmas dinner, a beer cantus, a date dinner, and various themed parties. An annual house weekend is also part of the yearly calendar. New housemates are expected to organize an activity, either alone or together with another housemate. Sports are a regular part of life in the house, with residents running, going to the gym, or joining the same sports club together. The household is looking for a male housemate. Smoking is not permitted and pets are not allowed.

The room is located in the IBB student complex on the Ina Boudier-Bakkerlaan, home to approximately 1,300 students. The complex consists of several buildings with four or five floors as well as an eighteen-story high-rise flat, giving it the character of a small village. In the summer, the grassy areas of the complex are used by residents to relax outdoors. Within a few minutes on foot, Ledig Erf can be reached, an area with terraces and shops. By bicycle, Utrecht's city center is less than ten minutes away, and Utrecht Science Park is about a fifteen-minute ride.

A small shopping center with a supermarket, a drugstore, and a snack bar is located directly opposite the complex. The room is rented under a campus contract, which means the accommodation is available only to students or doctoral candidates who can provide proof of current or upcoming enrollment. Internet and Wi-Fi are included, while a TV signal is not provided. The complex has no elevator. Parking is possible with a resident permit from the municipality of Utrecht, and paid parking applies on the complex from Monday to Friday between 06:00 and 21:00. Each house has access to communal bicycle storage, and camera surveillance is present in the complex.