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is this guy serious??? - 1/15/2009 4:58:54 PM   
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Okay, so a friend sent me this link last night for an ad she found on one particular free advertising site that I will not advertise here. I found it very amusing. My first thought was, "Hmmm, maybe I should respond to this guy's ad just for shits and giggles and ask him if I could be part of his dungeon fantasy." This seemed like a good place to share. Enjoy...

I am a born again Christian. Why is this a problem for people????! I have a house that's MINE and I PAID FOR IT. I also have a basement apartment for rent. It's a great space for I'm charing very little for it, $480 monthly, for the right tenant. I know it's ILLEGAL to require a Christian in the apartment, against the human rights. That's why I NEVER put this in my ad. Why then does it keep getting taken down?

HERE IS THE AD I POSTED, AND THE AD THAT KEEPS GETTING REMOVED:

Available Immediately – Broadway and Commercial – Showing Saturday and Sunday – Email for directions and additional information.

What kind of apartment is it?

• One bedroom basement apartment with separate entrance
• Tastefully decorated with modern décor
• Approximately 650 square feet
• There is even a window! Security bars installed for your safety and to prevent unauthorized activity
• Closed circuit camera installed for security and safety. One in your suite, one at the entrance, and one in the exercise yard

Rent:
• $480.00 per month
• First month’s rent + ½ month security deposit due at move in
• Small pet allowed with approval and payment of additional ½ month pet damage deposit
• One year lease permitted, option to renew lease at end of the term with no increase in rent
• LANDLORD’S SPECIAL! Move in before January 1st and don’t pay for the remainder of December! That’s significant savings.

Included in the rent:

• Electricity
• Heat – Maintained at 21 degrees with lock box to prevent unauthorized tampering. Additional heating available for $20.00 per extra degree of heating per month. You may not use your oven to heat the apartment. If you do, you will be fined $50.00 per occurrence.
• Air conditioning – Maintained at 25 degrees during the summer with lock box to prevent extra cooling from being dispensed. Additional cooling for sale for $20.00 per degree of cooling requested per month.
• 25" Zenith color television set with basic cable service - INCLUDED IN RENT!
• Wireless internet (with content filter applied to block forbidden/immoral websites) - INCLUDED IN RENT!
• Provision of coin laundry services - You will have your own personal coin laundry washer and dryer machines. Washers and dryers are paid using a token system. Tokens can be purchased through the landlord. Washer tokens cost $4.15 each and dryer tokens cost $3.60 each. You are not allowed to use foreign
currency or slugs in the washer and dryer. Violators will be fined $100.00 per infraction.

About us: (Landlords)

We are conservative, bible believing, God-fearing, born again, evangelical Christians. We interpret the bible literally in every way possible. We live a strict moral code and observe God’s laws in our everyday life. My wife stays at home and teaches our home-schooled children. I work as a pastor at a local congregation and am active in the faith community.

About you: (Tenant)

• You are employed
• You do not participate in lascivious deviant sexual behavior
• You do not choose alternative lifestyles as your lifestyle
• You do not have any criminal history
• You must have excellent character references
• You do not smoke, drink or take drugs. Mandatory drug screening required.


Additional Rules/Conditions:

CLEANLINESS: You are responsible for the cleanliness and orderliness of
your apartment. Beds are to be made before leaving your suite,
countertops must be wiped down, and you must remove all trash. Upon
inspection, if the tenant's basement suite is not clean, the cost of
cleaning services plus a fine of $100.00 will be levied.
LIGHTS: The lights in your basement suite and in the day room are not to
be tampered with. If a light needs repair, report the condition to the
Landlord.
WAKE-UP: Wake up will be at 5:30am each morning. All ceiling lights in
the suite will be turned on automatically.
LIGHTS OUT: Ceiling lights in the suite will be turned off at 11:30pm.
CONTRABAND: The following items are considered contraband – alcohol, illegal drugs, tobacco, weapons, lock picking equipment. If any contraband is discovered to be in your possession, you will be subject to a minimum $1,000.00 fine. In addition, your items will be confiscated permanently. Second offense – you will be evicted without notice. A bailiff will escort you and your belongings off the premises. Your security deposit will not be returned.
SMOKING: The basement suite is non-smoking. Anyone in possession of
tobacco products of any kind or any lighter or matches, will have their
contraband items confiscated and will be fined $100.00.
INSPECTIONS: The Landlord will conduct unannounced inspections to ensure
that these rules and regulations are being followed.
VISITATION: Visitation periods will be on Saturdays and Sundays from
1:00 p.m. until 3:00 p.m. All visitors and their vehicles are subject
to search while on landlord property. Refusal to allow a search can
result in their being barred from all future visitation privileges. All
visitors must sign the Visitor's Log. Unauthorized visitors will be
escorted from the property, and the tenant will be fined $250.00.
I.D. BRACELETS: Each tenant will be issued an I.D. bracelet with his/her
photograph. It must be worn at all times. If you lose your I.D.
bracelet or it is broken, you will be required to purchase a new one at
the nominal cost of $5.00.
EXERCISE YARD: The tenant will have access to the exercise yard in the
area to the back of the property for 2 hours per day from 4:00 pm to
6:00 pm. The tenant is not allowed to bring any personal property to
the exercise yard. Once the tenant leaves the exercise yard on a
particular day, he or she may not return. No boisterous behavior is
allowed in the exercise yard. There is no smoking allowed in the
exercise yard. Minimum fine for exercise yard infractions is $50.00.
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RE: is this guy serious??? - 1/15/2009 5:05:45 PM   
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This sounds more like conditions in a jail than a private residence.  If the apartment is anywhere in the US I'm fairly certain most of this is patently illegal.

Of course, it could just be someone's idea of a joke :D

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RE: is this guy serious??? - 1/15/2009 5:11:36 PM   
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Well, I'm not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure the rules as stated would violate some local laws regarding housing around here. Not to mention the tenant's and other visitors' civil rights seem to go out the window...

The ad is just beyond ridiculous...

Edited because I can...


< Message edited by E2Sweet -- 1/15/2009 5:14:55 PM >


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RE: is this guy serious??? - 1/15/2009 5:19:37 PM   
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Sadly, this reminds me of a landlord I once had who started a conversation with "Well, I was in your apartment today.....".  I asked him what the heck he was doing in my space and he told me I should remember it was HIS house and therefore HIS space and he would go in any time he pleased.  A visit from the local police and a representative from the town's Housing Authority Department told him otherwise!

I'd like to think this is a joke but there are some pretty wacky people out there

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RE: is this guy serious??? - 1/15/2009 5:20:02 PM   
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Wow, except for being able to leave whenever the tenant wants, it's just like Prison....

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RE: is this guy serious??? - 1/15/2009 5:27:07 PM   
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I think he is serious and that cracks me up. 

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RE: is this guy serious??? - 1/15/2009 5:28:08 PM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: CarrieO

...  I asked him what the heck he was doing in my space and he told me I should remember it was HIS house and therefore HIS space and he would go in any time he pleased....


If it were me, the first time he made an unwelcome entrance after he was warned not to, he would probably be met at gunpoint...

Oh how very wrong he was about the assumption your space was indeed his space... Good to see you got the matter straightened out!...


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RE: is this guy serious??? - 1/15/2009 5:29:01 PM   
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quote:


• There is even a window! Security bars installed for your safety and to prevent unauthorized activity
• Closed circuit camera installed for security and safety. One in your suite, one at the entrance, and one in the exercise yard



Excercise yard?  I.D. bracelet?  Automatic lights-on at 5:30 a.m.?  Visitation periods??

This just cracked me up, and I started thinking that it was a joke advertising for the local jail!  Unfortunately, I think it's possible that this guy is serious and is so afraid that his renter will show some aspect of immorality that he's going overboard trying to keep from having a "bad" renter.  Good luck to him...I sure as hell wouldn't rent from him!

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RE: is this guy serious??? - 1/15/2009 5:40:25 PM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: E2Sweet

quote:

ORIGINAL: CarrieO

...  I asked him what the heck he was doing in my space and he told me I should remember it was HIS house and therefore HIS space and he would go in any time he pleased....


If it were me, the first time he made an unwelcome entrance after he was warned not to, he would probably be met at gunpoint...

Oh how very wrong he was about the assumption your space was indeed his space... Good to see you got the matter straightened out!...



Oh, I didn't need a gun....the responding officer had one that, after having that nice talk with my soon-to-be ex-landlord, let me get a feel for holding one

But of course that's another story....one of "lascivious deviant behavior"!  I guess that means I won't be renting from our above-mentioned conservative landlord!

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RE: is this guy serious??? - 1/15/2009 6:25:37 PM   
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And there isn't a line of applicants winding all the way around the corner?
Can't imagine why

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RE: is this guy serious??? - 1/15/2009 6:31:00 PM   
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Hmmm...
My checklist:
• You are employed  (erm....sort of)
• You do not participate in lascivious deviant sexual behavior  (wooops)
• You do not choose alternative lifestyles as your lifestyle (see above)
• You do not have any criminal history  (failed this one too)
• You must have excellent character references  (yep.... Extraordinary  references to boot)
• You do not smoke, drink or take drugs. Mandatory drug screening required. 
(<buzzer> wrong again)


One out of six......
Shucks.....


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RE: is this guy serious??? - 1/15/2009 6:33:08 PM   
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I wonder if this guy intends to do cavity searches during his inspections?

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RE: is this guy serious??? - 1/15/2009 6:44:23 PM   
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It's not serious.  Note the temps... they're in Centigrade.  This is Canadian or European.

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RE: is this guy serious??? - 1/15/2009 6:52:58 PM   
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Would you consider that a plus GT?

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RE: is this guy serious??? - 1/15/2009 6:59:44 PM   
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I would, Saratov, except for all the other prison-like stuff ;)

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RE: is this guy serious??? - 1/15/2009 7:00:36 PM   
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If he's serious, he's a control freak that probably got off typing the ad up. I can't imagine someone thinking they could get away with having their rules obeyed like this, but then again, if one is looking for a very controlled and structured atmosphere this would be ideal.




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RE: is this guy serious??? - 1/15/2009 7:03:20 PM   
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Is it bad that as I was reading that, I got seriously pissed off??  I just wanted to bitchslap the guy.  I don't care if it was a joke.  I still wanna beat them down!  HAHA!

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RE: is this guy serious??? - 1/16/2009 2:35:11 AM   
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It's a joke, he overplays his hand with detail

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RE: is this guy serious??? - 1/16/2009 3:20:26 AM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: DarkSteven

It's not serious.  Note the temps... they're in Centigrade.  This is Canadian or European.


Pretty sure that's in Vancouver, since I have friends who live at Broadway and commercial.

And I'm pretty sure it's fake, because there aren't many Evangelicals here haha, and the ones we do have probably wouldn't advertise that on craigslist.

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RE: is this guy serious??? - 1/16/2009 6:01:22 AM   
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What I think is MOST Hilarious is that nearly NONE of what he is stateing is Legal. Even if you signed a Contract before a Judge Renters Rights would give you the ability to contest every singe one of his requirements because they are not legal for the landlord to insist on.

About the only thing that the landlord can do is evict the renters and even then that would be difficult if the person kept paying rent and the Landlord had them sign a lease for a certain period of time.

Some People should not be allowed to rent out rooms or property because they don't understand rnters rights. I had my former Landlord arrested twice for breaking and entering, then I sued him in small claims court for the maximum allowance on the groups of all the rent that I had paid was not affording me the basic rights of a tenant.

It was a good day for me.

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