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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]For reasons that I don't really understand, when I was renting our place and I had a craigslist anonymous email I had much less interest.[/quote]

As someone who recently found a new rental, I can't tell you how many times I replied to the "Craigslist email" and got responses asking for sensitive personal and financial information.  Bank account numbers, social security number, etc.  Once they had that, they said they would tell me exactly where the listing actually was.  I never knew there were so many Nigerian landlords in DC.

And folks, prices.  They are way too high and the "fine print" in many of the adds says things like "available September 1st."  It's March.

No one is going to give you two grand a month for the priviledge of living in your cellar or the ghetto, let alone both.  Even the Nigerians understand that, you should, too.[/quote]

This. There are a shitton of scams on craigslist, and it is discouraging real landlords and agents from posting their real listings. The real listing are co-opted by the scammers, replacing the real price with an artificially low one to generate a ton of interest, then the scammer has a whole bunch of people to try and dupe.[/quote]

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