Answering to flat adverts is quite tricky. If you don't know how to read between the lines, you will for sure be disappointed once you visit flats since you can trust real estate agents to produce dishonest adverts:

  • "charming flat" means falling apart flat

  • "minor refreshments to plan" means masonry to do

  • "no face-to-face" means last floor, no elevator

  • "parking area possibly available" means sure, if you double the rent

  • "subway station near" means geee, are there places not near a subway station in Paris?

  • "standing" means building had a new white covering recently

  • "leave a message so that we can call you back" means "we can" doesn't mean "we will".

  • "good guarantees required" means don't call if you don't earn five times the rent

  • "occasion, to see" means we can't rent this crap but you don't know that

Now I'm playing the real estate agent game : calling a real estate agent at random, reading him his advert, replacing all occurences of words by my definitions and asking for confirmation ... how surprising, they always match! Needless to say, you haven't won the game unless the agent violently hang up the phone.