1. Don’t respond to ads that are written with poor english and grammar. If you do call and manage to get the address out of them, don’t bother asking them questions as they will likely lie to you or just plain have no idea what you are talking about!
2. When an ad says “10 minutes walk from tube station” it really means 20 minutes walk from tube, or 15 minutes if you are prepared to hop over some peoples fences.
3. You can usually trust the quality of a share house over a vacant studio apartment as people are already happy to live there and haven’t died of malnutrition due to insufficient cooking facilities.
4. When investigating flat shares always remember the golden ratio; Number of tenants: Number of bathrooms! 8:1 does not compute!
5. Question and Answer time in Turnpike Lane (suburb of East London) What’s wrong with these answers?
a) Jeremy: rings buzzer *bzzz*
Tenant: Loud deep intimidating voice from a window overhead “WHO’S THERE!”
Jeremy: “Jeremy and Joanna, we called you 5 minutes ago about the Room?”
Tenant: “Oh… hmm”
Later
b) Jeremy: “So do you get much crime in this area?”
Same tenant: “Oh yeah, heaps!… but not in this street…*tenant smiles nervously*
Jeremy: *also smiles nervously*
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