You Want HOW MUCH For That Room?

I found the funniest post on Craig's List today. The ad concerns two rooms open in a three bedroom house located just north of H Street NE. According to the ad, you can secure a room in the house for the bargain price of $750 a month (plus a $500 deposit & 1/3 of utilities). The house currently features a full bath upstairs, and a half bath on the first floor. The landlord notes that he will be adding a shower to the halfbath (which, if you are familiar with the layout of most rowhouses around here, you will know probably means walking through the kitchen to get to the shower). The house also boast a "conveniant" location (near a homeless men's shelter) with easy access to buses (true), grocery (I think he means Murry's, which is excellect if you want to stock up on generic ketchup or neon colored faux fruit drink), restaurants (this could refer to Citi Pizza (delivery only), or one of numerous takeout places that can always boast a lively dice game), and bars -I am puzzled by this reference to bars since the only bars around are on people's windows (though I suppose you could always just swill your brew with the gang outside Family Liquor). I don't mean to pick on this author in particular. The thing is that I see more and more ads/posts/emails just like this, and I can't let the truth stretching/price inflating pass without at least a little commentary.