These people on Craigslist.  Oh my god.  Do they actually want people to be interested in the apartments they are trying to rent?!  SHEESH.  Things that annoy me about these ads:

1.  Ads with no photos and no description, just “Single family home.”  ”Condo.”  Oh, well okay.  That tells me absolutely nothing.

2.  Ads with photos and description, but no location— just “Pittsburgh.”  Well, hoss, that encompasses a VERY LARGE AREA!  This is my least favorite, actually.  THAT IS BASIC INFORMATION.  IF YOUR APARTMENT IS LOCATED IN FAR FAR AWAY/THE PROJECTS, I AM NOT INTERESTED.  Do not waste both of our time by not saying where the place IS.

3.  4RentPittsburgh, which words its headlines very nicely, then you go to their page and they’re like “You want to see our rentals?  HA HA!  YOU PAY FEE NOW!”  No.

4.  People who just copy and paste the information they gave to their insurance company.  Wood frame, shingle roof, central heat, built 1930.  No photos, no location.

5.  One photo, and it’s of a window.

6.  This is more of a funny thing, but— misplaced adjectives.  ”Capacious.”  ”Gracious.”  ”Blatantly large.”  ”Perspicacious.”  ”Commodious.”  ”Staggering.”  Dude, come on.

7.  Lakefront property?  Where the F is there a lake in Pittsburgh? 

8.  Ads that are obviously misplaced— I searched “Pittsburgh,” why is this ad for an apartment in Ashland, Ohio?  Or why would you post and say “cats and dogs OK” but your actual ad says “no pets?”  Don’t you think I’d be looking for an apartment that allowed pets for a reason?

9.  Ads for 3-bedroom, 2-bathroom, remodeled homes that are OMG SO AMAZING and yet, inexplicably, $525 a month.  Yeah, what’s the catch?  (It’s in the ghetto/it’s haunted/there’s a vermin issue/their mother died in the upstairs bedroom/etc.)