Ohh, about the roommate posting, I saw the ad and I could say you'd get a heck of a lot more responses if you trim it down to the bare essentials. "2BR, 1BA, allergic to cats, cable but no TV yet, close to BART, clean and responsible applicants only" or so on, about a paragraph.

I've been helping my buddy find a place on craigslist and we always get turned off by the longer and more detailed messages because we agreed it might be an indication of a roommate who's a control freak or something and that's no good.