800 dollars for renting a room in a house for 3 days when I was an intern. The guy who lived in it and owned it was an obsessive compulsive, and he couldn't be trusted, keyed into my room to turn off my box and then lied about it, then gave me some sh!t about not turning off a light in the hall. I was renting for 400 a month, I managed to get out in 3 days, but I couldn't get the money (deposit and first months rent) from him cuz NY state law says tenants have to give 60 day notice and full payement of rent. I could have hired a laywer and tried to take him to court over it, but that would have been too much effort for me at where i was in my life. I managed to get into college housing at 125 a week for the summer, it was much better.
The live lesson is, ask for references if you plan to live in a house with someone else you don't know.