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"It's Craig's List"

By razib on April 9, 2006.

Just to reinforce the "Live Journal" flavor of this weblog...I have to recount a Craig's List story. I was recently looking for an apartment to rent, and I was playing email/phone tag with a guy "Zeke" who was subletting his extra room. When I was looking at a different place "Zeke" called me, and the guy whose place I was looking at told me that he worked with the same "Zeke" (he heard me say his name) Anyway, there were time issues with the second place I visited, so I was late at my third place, and when I called "Zeke" to postpone, he was like, "OK, I'll do something else." Finally make it to the third place, and find out that 30 minutes before I showed up "Zeke" (who I was supposed to be possibly subletting from) was himself interviewing to sublet with these same people who I was now interviewing with!!! I call "Zeke" and told him what was down, that I knew his game, and he told me that when he heard that someone was looking at the third place, but was late, he wondered if it was me, because he knew my previous place had pushed my schedule back.

Anyway....

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"Just to reinforce the "Live Journal" flavor of this weblog...I have to recount a Craig's List story. I was recently looking for an apartment to rent, and I was playing email/phone tag with this guy who was subletting his extra room. When I was looking at one place I got a call from him, and a guy who was living at the place I was looking at told me that the guy I was talking to worked with him!"

This would be comprehensible without all the hims and places. I have no idea who's doing what and where.

I'm trying to figure this out. So you were playing phone tag with A, then when you were looking at place B, guy A called you and somehow person B told you that guy A was a coworker of B's? I don't know. Nevermind.

It seems that Guy A was subletting Apt 1, Guy A was co-worker of Zeke. Zeke was trying to sublet Apt 3. Zeke was then trying to sublet Apt 3 to Razib. Zeke was in contact with Guy A.

So there are 2 possibilities:
Either Zeke was trying to sublet Apt 3 first, then flip it immediately to Razib - presumably for a higher rent!
Or Zeke was just going to show up at Apt 3 and rent it to
Razib, but just take the deposit and first month and split!