Those that have rented an apartment/home from Craigslist, how was the experience? Was there anything you wished to know before you signed on?

In 2018, my 21 year old daughter signed up to live with a room mate via craigslist for her internship in a major city. The craiglist person held the lease and the two would have two separate bed rooms and share a bath.

Overall, it was cool. Except for the times the one on the lease from Craigslist lied about her family and lied about employment 5 times (she was largely unemployed).

The first time I met that chick, who I was told she worked for a Ritzy hotel as a special event coordinator, she had fingernails that hadn't been attended to in months. And she had at least 10 visible fresh hickeys all over her neck on a Tuesday. No way in hell a professional at a five star fancy hotel in charge of special events has bad nails and hickeys all over her neck and has to show up to work in 12 hours.

Worse yet, I had shut my phone off and missed 12 texts from my daughter that she didn't know what to do because her roommate was going ape shit, smashing glass wear on the walls all because my daughter went out with her colleagues after work and didn't include her.

They weren't even friends, so wait, what? That level of anger is pretty scary.

I'm 400 miles away at that point and she is not answering her phone 4 hours after the initial texts.

I called my brother in law who is a cop and asked him what to do since his department was within 20 miles of where my daughter was.

He said, "I got this" and called his buddies who were cops in my daughter's jurisdiction and just said to them, "If you have time, my niece may need a well being check."

Those cops did a search for any criminal complaint at the address for the time of my daughter's texts. Nothing came up.

Those cops ended up doing a casual well being check.

I then got a call from my daughter and she said, "So um....the cops just left and everything is fine. But my roommate is a psycho and landlord laws here are that I can't lock my bedroom door. I don't know how to keep this bitch out of my room when I'm at work and she's unemployed and lied about everything related to jobs. She doesn't work"

So...we decided that the best thing to do was to set up the "ring" in her room so she could get notified if psycho went in and invaded her privacy.

And that pretty much was it. 3 months of what the hell just happened?

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