NY Times Finds That Renters Are Stupid; Don't Know the Meaning of "If It's Too Good To Be True..."

Seriously, how can someone who works in fiannce in NYC expect to actually rent a 1 bedroom on Park Avenue for $1,300 a month? You mean you did not smell any fishy??? Last month, a woman in her 20s who works in finance at a major investment bank responded to a Craigslist ad for a prewar one-bedroom at 470 Park Avenue. The pictures were “beyond amazing” for the monthly rent, $1,300, she said.... [more]

Seriously, how can someone who works in fiannce in NYC expect to actually rent a 1 bedroom on Park Avenue for $1,300 a month? You mean you did not smell any fishy??? Last month, a woman in her 20s who works in finance at a major investment bank responded to a Craigslist ad for a prewar one-bedroom at 470 Park Avenue. The pictures were “beyond amazing” for the monthly rent, $1,300, she said. Through e-mail messages written in awkwardly formal English, she was informed that the owner of the apartment lived in Alaska. Dissatisfied with his broker’s efforts to sell the place, he wanted to rent it out instead. But, he said, the dwelling couldn’t be shown until the superintendent came back from vacation. Searching for the photographs one day, the renter Googled a phrase she remembered from the ad — “Park Avenue Jewel” — and discovered that the apartment was listed for sale with Wendy Sarasohn, a senior vice president at the Corcoran Group. That jibed with the man’s story, said the would-be renter, who asked not to be identified in order to avoid embarrassment at work. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/28/realestate/28cov.html?_r=1&pagewanted=1 [less]