Hey, blood money listeners. Welcome to this week's bonus content. This week it is all about bad roommates.

And I just wanted to start out by sharing a personal anecdote about one of the weirdest situations that I've ever been in.

I just graduated from NYU. I was living in New York City. And it was one of the first times that I was living with strangers.

So I responded to an ad on Craigslist. There was this young couple and they had this

amazing apartment on White Street and Tribeca, this huge loft and they needed a roommate.

Now, at the time, I remember thinking this may be a little too good to be true but I went to see it they were

very nice they took me through the whole apartment which was gorgeous and finally toward the end of the

tour I'm thinking okay where's my room that's when they lead me to a closet it was a walk-in closet

the walls had all been painted black and there was a radiator in there that took up

a lot of the closet. So they were very nice to me. I was starting to wonder if they wanted a little

more than a roommate. And even with all that, because it was such a great location, I actually thought

about taking that apartment. In the end, I didn't. I ended up getting an apartment a few blocks

away. But every time over the years, I walked past White Street, I didn't. I ended up getting an apartment a few blocks away, but every time over the years I walk past White Street, I wonder if they're still there and if there's someone living in that closet, maybe chained to the radiator pipe, who knows?

Seriously, though, even though I've lived with a lot of different people, a lot of them strangers in different cities around the world.

I've met a lot of eccentric people over the years. But on the whole, I've been lucky because

even though I might have had some roommates with some weird tendencies, they've been responsible

people. Everyone's always paid their bills. And I have not had to deal with any of the

nightmare scenarios that we talked about

in this week's episode. The problem with dealing with a roommate who is a real psychopath is that

most of the advice people give you like have a good lease and good communication. That works if you're

dealing with a sane person, but not if you're dealing with these people who are predatory.

There are people out there who know how to manipulate the system.

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