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"It's Craig's List"

Discover a wild Craig's List story of subletting gone wrong, filled with timing mishaps and unexpected twists!

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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 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 ...

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