Finding places to stay in NYC when you don't know anyone

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Posted by Fibonacci on Aug-01-2008 15:58:

Finding places to stay in NYC when you don't know anyone

So any of you folks have luck finding places via craigslist and such? I'm looking at spots in the east village... I had a place set up but my roommate-to-be who has been my roommate for a while and a friend since college wound up moving back to boston

Kind of got screwed by the last-minute move but any of you guys have any good stories? horror stories? about finding roommates online and such...

Posted by ReenTeenTeen on Aug-01-2008 16:06:

ask fr0st. he seems to be lookin for a roomate every year on the dot. (forgot to cap this... oops )

Posted by The Vza on Aug-01-2008 16:43:

i feel like craig's list works pretty good at finding roommates. You can usually find people that have graduated recently from somewhere looking for roommates. You said you went to Syracuse, right? I know about 8,000,000 SU kids in the city looking for roommates. you might want to try that avenue

Posted by Chaska on Aug-01-2008 19:20:

Craigslist works really well, although what I would recommend you to do is to do a background check of potential roommates.
I had a really bad experience with someone I found on roommates.com. The guy moved in to the basement in the house I was renting when I was living in MD, ate all my roommate's and my food, didn't pay a cabbie a $30 fare, so the cops where at my house every day, moved in his girlfriend and her 2 kids, screwed me over with last months rent, and smoked crack in the basement with those kids down there sleeping How's that for a horror story? Make sure you do a background check, you never know

Posted by Fibonacci on Aug-02-2008 02:16:

quote:
Originally posted by The Vza
i feel like craig's list works pretty good at finding roommates. You can usually find people that have graduated recently from somewhere looking for roommates. You said you went to Syracuse, right? I know about 8,000,000 SU kids in the city looking for roommates. you might want to try that avenue

wow thats a really fucking good idea - thanks! and good fucking memory!!!

Posted by Fibonacci on Aug-02-2008 19:18:

i just realized that that last post looked somewhat sarcastic - it wasn't. that was genuinely a great suggestion!

Posted by The Vza on Aug-02-2008 19:25:

quote:
Originally posted by Fibonacci
i just realized that that last post looked somewhat sarcastic - it wasn't. that was genuinely a great suggestion!

No worries. I knew you were being genuine. Ill let you know if I hear anything also

Posted by maddhatterradio on Aug-02-2008 20:54:

quote:
Originally posted by Chaska
ate all my roommate's and my food,

He ate all of your roommates!!! And he ate your food! The food can be replaced...but the roomates, priceless. Damn that is some Jeffrey Dahmer shit right there....

Posted by Fibonacci on Aug-03-2008 04:09:

fuck i cannot be having my roommates eaten, fuck that

Posted by Navydrunk on Aug-03-2008 21:06:

hey peoples, I'm moving to NYC from Frisco within the Month...anyone looking for a roomate? I can pay first last, deposit, and THOUSANDS of tunes for u please call me @ 415 676 8335. I got accepted to www.sft.edu so hit me up!!