Thanks, Andrea; your post there is kinda where I can join your journey and start to try to understand what you're up to. Gosh, househunting is such a weird trip. Maybe the advice we got in the Red Cross about sensible management and decision making applies: a for-profit head with a non-profit heart... at least that's how I hope potential tenants will see that room. A step up, not a step down. A "starving student" romantic garret, not a cold tribulation! :~) (That's how I recall a similar room I still love in memory, that I took as a frisky young lady!)

I wish you well in your search and I bet the home you are meant to occupy is waiting for you to find it.

~Susan