Rewriting Craigslist Titles for Accuracy

| | Comments (0)
My lease is up at the end of the month, and a month ago I had shopped around a little bit for other rental properties in my neighborhood.  I mostly like my little duplex, but I thought it was worth looking for a whole house to rent (versus a duplex), with private laundry facilities and my own backyard.  I combed through Craigslist, and drove around looking at several places.

I printed off the Craigslist pages for each property, and took them around on my little clipboard and took notes as I investigated each place.  For each place, the seller has to come up with a catchy title (noted in bold below)...and next to each catchy title I noted my own, more accurate title for the property (noted in red below):

  • 3br Quaint River Rock Craftsman in Old Ballard - Cutesy Cottage!
  • 2br with View and Beach Access - Shitty Beach Bungalow with No Privacy!
  • 2br Ballard House - Possible Meth Lab?
  • 2br HUGE Apartment in Duplex - the PERFECT APARTMENT! - Not Actually Perfect!
As it turns out, I did find a new place after all, so I'm moving out of my Ballard apartment this weekend.  But quite unexpectedly, the new place is in Helsinki, Finland.  So I may not be able to write too much over the next couple of weeks while I'm preparing for that slightly-more-complicated move, but once I'm there I promise to write lots about all my confusing adventures.

And obviously I'll need to change the headline of this page to say "Kotara Industries, the Helsinki Branch," and to find some sort of snow-based template.



Categories

Leave a comment

About this Entry

This page contains a single entry by halee published on August 29, 2009 10:48 AM.

The Day I Got Paid for Playing Bejeweled® 2 was the previous entry in this blog.

Worst. Week. Ever. is the next entry in this blog.

Find recent content on the main index or look in the archives to find all content.

Powered by Movable Type 4.0