Searching For A New Rental? Beware of scams!

So recently, I have been doing a little scouting around Craigslist to see how other rental properties around the area compare to our humble abode.  I have been coming across a number of scams.  Here are some tips to weed them out:

• The rent is really low for the area.  (Seriously, a "3BR huge home in KOP" for $631/month??)
• The contact number is out of town.
• When you contact them, they ask for your email address to "send you information".
• If you leave a message and no one calls you back within a couple of hours. (Real owners or real estate agents or rental managers always get back to you ASAP.)

Never ever give out any personal information without seeing the property in person first.  Not your last name, email address, home phone number (cell phone is okay because they do need one way of contacting you and cell phone numbers are not easily traced by the general public), definitely not any financial information and never your Social Security number.  If they pressure you to give information because "we have many people calling us about this property.  Are you going to rent it or not?", they are probably not legitimate.  (I responded to one such instance with, "Well, I need to know if you are legit or not." and was promptly hung up on.)
 
One more thing: If you see a listing that just has a website link (such as ez.com) -- DO NOT CLICK ON IT!  ez.com is a known tracking website and others may contain worse (such as keystroke programmes and other viruses).  Use common sense when clicking on any links.

Cutest Hockey Goal Celebration Ever

We all know that kids say and do the darndest things.  This is the darn-cutest way to celebrate a goal.

Lampooning the Old Spice Commercial

Words cannot describe how hard I laughed...

Gerald Lesser Dies at 84

"Can you tell me how, how to get to Sesame Street?"

Sniff sniff.  Mr. Lesser was one of the creative geniuses of Sesame Street, one of the best childhood programmes ever um, I mean during the 1970s and 1980s.

http://news.yahoo.com/video/entertainment-15749636/sesame-street-s-gerald-lesser-dies-at-84-22293905

Thank you for bringing us all the letters of the alphabet and numbers on the street every kid wants to to get to.

What To Do Next...

...for the man who has found his other half.  

I came across some marriage proposal videos, and some were very creative.  These two are among the ones I enjoyed most.

This is the most creative video I have seen:

Of course, I love any proposal involving someone in uniform: