Apartment/house listings that don't say where it's located.

[Jeff7]

I see a lot of apartment or house-for-rent listings that don't say where the property is located. The most specific location information I have for such listings is the ZIP code, because that's what I used to search for something in the first place.
No pictures, no good description.

"2br apt. $500/month. Off-street parking. Call xxx-xxx-xxx."

Wow. That's descriptive. Maybe that kind of communique was a good idea back when you were charged by the letter to send a telegram*, but whole words are usually quite cheap on the Internet these days. (* - This is merely my best guess at how it worked.)

Garage? Utility hookups? Address? Neighbors who engage in dark rituals and howler monkey sacrifices? Pictures? Anything??

Is there a good reason to avoid posting this kind of information, or are people really just that damned lazy?

 

[mmntech]

I'd be very leery of vague postings. It's probably on Martin Luther King Blvd. 😀

 

[TridenT]

It's spam. It's all over Seattle. Same numbers if you look.

 

[Savij]

In boston those listings usually meant you will deal with a douchebag realtor who tries to extort an extra month of rent as their fee.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I'd avoid, they probably have something to hide, like the fact that the previous owner had lot of failed experiments with nuclear fission. That's not a radon mitigation system you see in the picture.