Toronto Rental Opportunity: Share a Bed With Eddy

If you needed a reminder about how bad the Toronto-area rental market is, look no further. This Craigslist ad, for a place located near the airport, is the creepiest we have seen in a long time.

Though the title of the listing, posted three days ago, reads innocent enough—”$500 / 1br - 1 Bedroom even short 1 or 2 month stay available close to YYZ (Elmhurst/Islington)”—what lies inside is a nearly 1,200-word monologue containing a strange amount of detail, expectations, shirtless selfies, and of course, a little bit of racism.

As always, people are intent on getting attention on the internet, so do take this listing with a grain of salt. (For what it’s worth, we ran the photos on the post through Google reverse image search and didn’t get any hits.)

“My name is Eddy,” the listing begins. In what follows, “Eddy,” who appears silver-haired, yet fit, does the following:

• Offers for his prospective roommate to stay in his king-size bed with him—an accompanying photo shows a pillow divider down the middle of said bed: "pillows in the middle means not interested ok," the post reads
• Discusses how he is recently married and is waiting for his wife to immigrate (she will need to approve of the living situation, apparently)
• Insists he will only accept a woman as a roommate, but “NO GUYS APPLY or Black Ladies even though I had one girlfriend that was Jamaican”
• Says the numerous typos in the listing are because he recently dropped his phone in water and that he used voice dictation for the entire thing
• This: “I seen a lot of bodies alive and dead so chill love and respect …I want you to sleep well .. Don't worry bring your parents and let them help you make your room . Meantime I will explain to your parents not to jump all over me Hahaha”
• Insists he doesn’t want sex
• Asks for pics and provides pics, including shirtless ones: “What's wrong with asking for a picture of who you will be with?”
• Requests first and last but will accept just first “since it’s Christmas”
• Offers breakfast in bed and rides in his car (pictured) to his prospective roommate

“It's going to be hard for whoever comes here to leave that's how nice it is here,” the listing ends.

Hmm, gonna be a hard pass from me, dude. Best of luck, Eddy.