GreenTomato

-500 rent -20 truck cost +160 rent refund ------ $360

I paid a dude with a truck $20 to move our stuff there. Douche bag.

I think some people are just jealous our startup is getting traction.

I can't believe people are thinking it's fake. Its funny.

I am going to leave the thread now and get back to work. I was just mad and wanted to share. It made me feel better.

Why didn't we hire an exterminator? I never even thougt of it. Thinking now I don't feel it was our responsibility to exterminate this guy's place, and he said he would refund our money which was airbnb's policy.

We've been in two other places so far and not seen any roaches. All the people around here I talk to say it is not normal to see roaches everywhere. Maybe once in a while.

Don't you think he should have mentioned that there are tons of roaches in his place in the listing? Or on the phone?

This is so funny to my partner and I. I wish it was fake and I had my $360 back!

I could put a link to the dude's airbnb profile. I feel like he screwed me and failed to disclose a material defect, but still I'm not sure.

Our original hypothesis was that we could share a master bedroom in a house. Craigslist has lots of $500 a month rooms for rent. We are trying to keep costs low.

We learned this was a bad idea and have pivoted, and our planning on renting a 1 bedroom for our office as soon as possible.

There are lots of rooms in Austin available for $500 a month. You can get a master bedroom with private bath for that price.

We could have we just ran out of time.

Also because I know someone is going to say I didn't plan ahead or came on too tight a budget... I know. I'm living on the edge and pushing things but it will turn out ok and I will have had a valuable experience.

I'm just trying to protect someone else from getting screwed over by sharing my experience.

Dude that wouldn't have even worked because the place wasn't properly sealed off from the outside. You could kill all the roaches inside and new ones would just come back.

I sold each copy for $199 and I did it by doing webinars for the target audience. I contacted people that ran webinars (they often want guest speakers) I would do a presentation and then sell copies after.

A lot of people wanted me to do other consulting work for them as well.

I created and sold an info product by doing webinars to a niche audience. It can definitely be done.