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Friday, April 29, 2011

Rent, Don't Buy: Dungeon Apartment in "Cowboy Cassidy's" Basement Can Be Yours

× Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed. Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox. Wednesday, April 20, 2011, by Sarah Firshein

As a general rule of thumb, folks who rent apartments on Craigslist try to avoid ending up in the landlord's dungeon. Yet the Los Angeles Times home blog encourages renters to reconsider, offering a story about the totally normal-sounding, affable George Ehling, an octogenarian who has been renting out the basement apartment—"bigger than a studio and smaller than a one bedroom"—in his Hollywood Hills home for five years. The subterranean space is clad with rocks that Ehling dug up in the backyard and affixed to the concrete walls; it's renting for $1,350 a month. One word of advice, though: in his earlier days, Ehling used to wrestle under the nickname "Cowboy Cassidy."

· Dungeon apartment for rent in the Hollywood Hills [L.A. at Home]


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