Advertising for housemates on Gumtree sort of counts, right?
We had one bloke who came around, looked about the flat, and then asked if he could try the shower. I thought 'fair enough, it's an important part of your morning routine'. I stood by while he spent a full five minutes stood by the bath with the shower head in hand, messing with the temperature, trying the different settings, etc., with a look of real concentration on his face.

He emailed back the next day and said he might be interested, but he wasn't sure. Could he come back and have another look at the shower?

We also had a guy we had to ask to move out after a month because the shy PhD student who had the small room upstairs noticed her knickers had suddenly started disappearing from her laundry basket and then reappearing there later on since he'd moved in. When she brought it up with him, he said he was only borrowing them because he loved her.

We also had a bloke who seemed pretty nice when we interviewed him, but turned out to be having a massive crisis of some sort. He revealed to us he was moving out of his old place because his wife had left him, went on a massive bender for about a week (which got him sacked), then suddenly decided alcohol was evil and I returned one evening to find he'd poured my gin down the sink and wanted to talk to me about the evils of my ways. He later joined the army.

Short version - if you decide to live with people you meet over the Internet, don't assume they'll be normal
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Fri 23 Nov 2012, 11:20, 5 replies)

Over sharing
I had a girl come over to view a room once after she responded to an online ad. She told me she was moving out of a really nice place in a very exclusive part of London in which she was renting a room for just £450 a month. I expressed amazement that she would want to leave such a bargain. Then she told me that she was tired of the endless late night partying of her rich male flatmates with Russian prostitutes, before casually adding that one of them had come into her room while she was sleeping and tried to get into bed with her. Actually all three had done this at various times and she "felt it was time to move out".

I asked why she was telling me rather than the police, then showed her the door.
( pineapplecharm D d M Y, H:i, Fri 23 Nov 2012, 11:52, closed)

Reminds me of a friend of mine's younger sister
She lives in a fantastic self contained basement flat and pays tiny rent. The downside is that the house belongs to a middle-aged man who lives upstairs and keeps trying to make her go on dates with him. She keeps saying no and expects she will be asked to move out soon, as she has no contract.
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Fri 23 Nov 2012, 12:35, closed)

Is she called
"Miss Jones"?
(McChinaman banned, Fri 23 Nov 2012, 13:11, closed)

I NEED TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE SHOWER

(McChinaman banned, Fri 23 Nov 2012, 13:11, closed)

It was a perfectly good shower
Temperature very easy to control. Head (replaced fairly recently before the event) had three settings.

This is what made it odd.
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Fri 23 Nov 2012, 13:30, closed)