Showing posts with label living quarters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label living quarters. Show all posts

14 January 2009

You just can't make this up.


Well, I've been looking for a share. It seems that housing in NYC, (which I've been told), is more difficult to settle than obtaining a job. It is a gauntlet. I'll admit that I have been spoiled for the past few years: living with NYU guys, of whom have the connections, the handle. My search has been nothing short of: strenuous. It's a delicate balance of timing, clever pitch and communicating 'normalcy'.

After exchanging a few emails with this NYU Poly grad student from China, he pops up on my gchat:


Jie:
hi
me: hi
Jie: there is a big deal for you
lol, I reduce the rent to 800 per month
Sent at 12:45 AM on Wednesday
me: why?
Jie: the living room is so big, I want to rent it out, so that ppl can share fewer rent
me: ummm
Jie: I add you on facebook
I dont know if that is you, but you can add me so I can see you
Sent at 12:48 AM on Wednesday
Jie: Hello?
Sent at 12:55 AM on Wednesday



---And it's time to say: Next.


Photo courtesy: Vadim Grinberg.