I love real estate. The good, the bad, the nutty, all of it. So when I happened upon the Tumblr known as The Worst Room, I knew I’d found something special.
It’s a simple premise. It’s just a blog about trying to find affordable real estate on Craigslist, both in New York and elsewhere. Each post includes a picture, the rent and neighborhood, and a few key quotes from the listing. Doesn’t seem so remarkable, does it? But it’s the properties he finds that make it extra wonderful.
When he started The Worst Room in 2012, Ryan Nethery once again found himself alternately couch surfing and living out of his car. He had found himself residentially challenged so often, he decided to turn his endless search for an affordable place to live into an art project. The result is a hilarious/depressing catalog of the dregs of New York real estate (with a few non-New York properties contributed by readers).
Since I found this blog two days ago, it has appeared in my dreams both nights. I’m hoping that by sharing it with you, it will leave me alone and let me sleep! (Sorry if I’m passing on the real estate nightmares . . .)
Unfortunately, our other unit, the armoire, is already taken.
Translation: for $300, you can rent a very questionable flight of stairs on which to sleep.
At least this one’s sunny . . . and level.
Well, Mahalo to you, too!
For when you’re trying to go INTO the closet.
Eat-in bathroom!
Grow lights included!
Uncool, Canada.
I didn’t see this coming. In this one, the landlord lives in YOUR closet.
This is not dorm living. It’s barracks living. Or possibly prison living.
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February 17, 2015 at 8:19 am
What an interesting post and honestly, some of those “worst room” pictures came me chills. I’d get nightmares too!
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February 17, 2015 at 8:27 am
If only they weren’t real.
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February 17, 2015 at 8:39 am
My “favorite” has to be the rickety, creepy stairs. 😉
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February 17, 2015 at 9:37 am
Complete with poltergeist!
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February 17, 2015 at 10:10 am
Haha! Thank you for your blog. I thoroughly enjoy your posts. Wow… That one in Brooklyn can’t be real, can it? Wow…
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February 17, 2015 at 10:20 am
I hope not, but who can say? Glad you enjoyed it!
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February 17, 2015 at 12:51 pm
My God, some of those are horrendous! Who wants a toilet in the kitchen? You would think people would be embarrased to rent some of these hovels out!
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February 17, 2015 at 12:59 pm
Desperate people have no shame. And I left off the ones that came with sexual favors because they were too gross. Craig’s List is a sewer.
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February 17, 2015 at 1:02 pm
Oh Yuck How revolting!
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February 17, 2015 at 1:43 pm
There are some interesting use of space!
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February 17, 2015 at 2:24 pm
That was hilariously understated!
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February 17, 2015 at 2:26 pm
hahahah .. especially the one which looked like someplace vampires would live
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February 17, 2015 at 10:13 pm
the shit-in kitchen?! How bad is it that I cannot stop laughing??!
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February 17, 2015 at 11:07 pm
I know what you mean. And it wasn’t bad looking, either. Would it have killed them to put in a wall and a door?
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February 17, 2015 at 11:08 pm
but then it would be a shut-in kitchen. And shit-in has such a ring to it…..
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February 17, 2015 at 11:41 pm
When you’re right, you’re right.
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February 18, 2015 at 2:24 pm
Too funny……This makes those tree houses and small houses on wheels you see on HGTV seem lavish!
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February 18, 2015 at 4:57 pm
True! At least they don’t come with a creepy roommate!
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February 18, 2015 at 5:03 pm
That was just too funny. The eat-in kitchen and the toilet kitchen were hilarious.
I will admit, I do have a room in my house with those exact bunkbeds. Maybe I should start charging my kids rent.
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February 18, 2015 at 5:21 pm
That sounds like a great idea! And if they misbehave, you can threaten them with weird Craig’s List roommates!
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February 21, 2015 at 10:04 am
Oh. My. Goodness. People are nuts.
-Sarah
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February 21, 2015 at 10:40 am
That’s kind of a through-line in my life. (Thank goodness!)
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