Ed Harding is currently living at a flexible long term Airbnb rental after moving in on June 1, 2022 after moving into an Airbnb room on May 12, 2022.  Ed is also occasionally looking for a less expensive private room to rent in a house, preferably with a private bath, or a cheap studio apartment, or an affordable apartment, or a flexible Airbnb long term rental contract in or near Silver Spring or College Park, Maryland.
As of Dec. 30, 2022, Ed Harding, of Silver Spring, Maryland, is a retired single white male computer professional and a responsible ex-homeowner who is seeking an affordable private room or studio apartment or affordable apartment or long term Airbnb rental contract to rent in or near Silver Spring or College Park, Maryland.

What Ed Harding's next landlord might like:
Ed Harding is fully vaccinated against COVID-19 with 2 Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine shots.  Ed also plans to get a booster shot.
Ed Harding has good credit with an over 720 credit score as of 12/30/22, according to creditkarma.com.
Ed Harding reliably pays his rent every month.   In 2015-2020, Ed usually paid his rent by PayPal more than a week early every month.
Ed Harding has a rock-solid reliable income of a monthly retired computer professional's pension check.
Ed Harding has more than 10k in the bank.
Ed Harding is a responsible ex-homeowner.
Ed Harding is a relatively young retired individual who is under 70 and is a private stay-at-home individual who spends a lot of time at his computer.
Ed Harding graduated from college at the University of Maryland magna cum laude, in the top 5% of his class.
Ed Harding was in the Honors Program at the University of Maryland and graduated with a Honor's citation.
Ed Harding was once elected to and served in Student Government at the University of Maryland as a commuter legislator.
Ed Harding was a National Merit Scholarship Semifinalist in high school.

What Ed Harding's next housemates might like:
Ed Harding is fully vaccinated against COVID-19 with 2 Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine shots.  Ed also plans to get a booster shot.
Ed is a responsible reasonable person who is an ex-homeowner and reliably pays his rent early.
Ed is a responsible college-educated retired single white male computer professional.
Ed is a busy private self-reliant individual who respects his housemates' privacy.
Ed is a nonsmoker.
Ed prefers a relatively quiet house with similar mellow housemates and a mellow household with no interpersonal drama.
Ed is a very responsible individual who is very experienced at living in group houses in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC.

Ed Harding's personal lifestyle.
Ed is a relatively young under 70 retired computer professional who earned his college degree at the University of Maryland many years ago.
Ed has transitioned from many years ago in Ed's younger years being a more extroverted easygoing responsible hippie or countercultural member of 2 co-operative vegetarian group houses, one in college, and one that Ed owned as a young college-educated computer professional, to now being a retired private and introverted hi-tech websurfer and webmaster who is a retired computer professional and computer techie.
When Ed was a younger man, Ed's background included an intellectual countercultural lifestyle, an interest in and a college major in "Empowerment, Personal Growth and Social Change", living in countercultural co-operative vegetarian group houses, and attending cultural celebrations and national left-wing political protests in Washington, DC.  Ed in his younger more active years shopped at food co-ops and health food stores, attended folk festivals, folk music performances, attended a wide variety of progressive/green/left wing political protests, including protests for peace, left-wing, green/environmental, human rights, global justice, and feminist protests and rallies, Renaissance Festivals, some Green America (formerly Coop America) green gatherings, annual New Age Pathway Natural Living Expos, a little folk dancing, some New Ageish Dances of Universal Peace, at least twice attending the Communities Conference at Twin Oaks, the Christmas Revels, other celebrations, and even a few hippie National Rainbow Gatherings in his youth..
These days, particularly as a retired individual during the COVID-19 epidemic, Ed is a private stay at home individual who enjoys listening to folk music and viewing YouTube entertainment and educational entertainment on the Internet.
Ed, as a retired individual, is a very private individual who likes to keep a very private low profile in his neighborhood and prefers to keep up with news and information on the Internet instead.
Ed is a busy, private, stay-at-home individual who does his news reading, learning, and shopping via the internet.

What Ed Harding likes to do for fun.
Ed is a private retiree who stays at home, keeps busy using a computer and/or viewing the Internet, and likes to listen to some nice sounding folk music and watch some interesting YouTube videos as his main sources of entertainment.
Ed is busy and currently saves time and stays out of some of the TV-ad fueled middle-class consumerist mindset by not watching TV.


What Ed Harding seeks in a new house:

Location: In or near Silver Spring or College Park, Maryland.  I'm also open to other housing options in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC.

Type of housing sought: Either
1. A room in a group house in/near Silver Spring or College Park, Maryland or in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC, or
2. A room in a single-family household in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC.  (You can legally earn extra money by renting a room in your suburban house if you apply for and get a license to rent 1 or more rooms in your home.)
3. Maybe a very cheap and affordable studio apartment or single person per room apartment, if  I can afford it.
4. An affordable apartment.
5. A flexible long-term Airbnb rental contract.

Preferred Price Range:
Ideally $500-$750 (or less) per month including rent and utilities and Internet access, or up to or $800 or $900 or more (including rent and utilities and Internet access) if necessary.  (I'm a fixed-income retiree.)   One possible negotiating point is that I might consider cutting the lawn in exchange for reduced rent.

Private Bath Preferred.
I prefer a room with a private bath.

Flexible Lease Preferred.
1. Preferably longer than 30 days notice for me to move out, preferably 45 or 60 or more days notice.  (It takes me awhile to find a new place to live.)
2. If I sign a long lease/sublease/long term Airbnb rental contract, I want an escape clause written into the lease that would allow me to move out earlier than the end of the lease with 30 days or as short a notice as the person leasing the room or apartment to me can agree to.  I'm a fixed-income retiree.  If I find a new more affordable place to live, I don't want to be stuck paying rent at 2 places at once for 30 days or even months.

Preferred Housing and Housemates (if you try to match housemates for lifestyle compatibility):
A professional, college-educated, and/or college student household.
A quiet, mellow, drama-free household.
While I am also used to living with a wide variety of housemates, if you are looking for compatible housemates that share similar lifestyles, then here is my lifestyle and what I would prefer in a house where people have similar lifestyles.
Similar mellow housemates, preferably college educated students and/or professionals.  And responsible people who are already vaccinated against COVID-19.  Ed is a relatively young under-70 retired single white male college-educated computer professional who has a background in countercultural living, holistic health, vegetarianism, green/environmentalist values, second-wave feminism values, and cold-war era left-wing people power political protest and politics.  Ed has lived in 2 countercultural co-operative vegetarian houses, including one during Ed's intellectual hippie left wing college years where Ed studied "Empowerment: Personal Growth and Social Change" in college, and one that Ed bought at age 24 and owned as a young computer professional.  Ed eventually transitioned into a stay-at-home retired computer professional who uses the Internet a lot.  Ed is also a webmaster.  (Ed is also legal and does not use any illegal drugs.)  Similar interests in other housemates might include cultural similarities, people with countercultural/green lifestyles, political similarities, including left-wing politics, particularly an interest in hi-tech human rights, an interest in healthy living, an interest in vitamins/naturopathic medicine, being nonsmokers, college-educated professional lifestyles, liking folk music, and a similar preferably 1960s/later preferably countercultural middle-class college-educated background.

Preferred House Features
Ideally $500-$750 (or less) per month including rent and utilities and Internet access, or up to $800 or 900 or more (including rent and utilities and Internet access) if necessary.  (I'm a fixed-income retiree.)
I prefer a room with a private bath.
I prefer a room with at least around 110 sq. feet (including any closet space).  I would prefer 120 sq. feet or more.
Access to high-speed Internet included with the utilities (or if necessary installable by myself).
Storage space in the house for some extra gear.  (Storage space could include space in an attic, space in the basement, storage space in a shed, and/or some yard space to store plastic bins under a tarp and/or under a temporary canopy storage space.)  While I much prefer extra storage space, I am also open to housing offers that do not include much extra storage space.
A washer and dryer.
Ideally 1 1/2 or more bathrooms in the house.
Up-to-date electrical power (with 3-pronged outlets, enough electrical power, properly grounded wiring, etc.  Usually not a problem.)   I use a home computer all the time.
A legal household without any illegal drugs.
In warmer weather, the right to use a window air conditioner in my room.  I can pay a reasonable amount extra for it, maybe $30/month negotiable to pay for the extra electricity when I do use a window air conditioner.  (I really like nice comfortable climate control in my room, with a comfortable cool temperature and comfortable low/medium humidity air.)
Access to cable TV included with the utilities or available for a small extra fee is a nice luxury, but it not a requirement.

Ed's personal lifestyle, including what Ed likes to do for fun.
Ed is a private retiree who stays at home, keeps busy using a computer and/or viewing the Internet, and likes to listen to some nice sounding folk music and watch some interesting YouTube videos as his main sources of entertainment.
Ed saves time and stays out of some of the TV-ad fueled middle-class consumerist mindset by not watching TV.

Ed can be reached at ed@edharding.com.  While Ed prefers email, Ed can also be reached at 301-779-9769.