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Would you commit to living with 7 roommates without seeing a picture of the actual room?

It's a beautiful house but we have questions.

A beautiful character home between West Point Grey and the Dunbar Southlands is enticing enough. Throw in street parking and rent for $950 a month and it sounds like a done deal, right?

But what if you'd have to commit to living with seven other people without seeing any pictures of the actual room? 

A recent Facebook Marketplace post advertises a bedroom in a shared house and while the pictures are beautiful, they do raise some questions.

The listing includes in-unit laundry, gas heating, and the fact that seven other people share the home. It specifies that the room for rent shares a bathroom with two other bedrooms and a kitchen with three other bedrooms.

If there are presumably four bedrooms in the house (one of which is the one being rented in this post) that means that seven other people share the remaining three. 

Does that mean two couples and a throuple?

There are no photos of any bedroom in the listing but it does include photos of a sunroom, patio, charming vintage kitchen, and an upstairs landing that appears to be used as an office space. There's even a yard which is rare in the world of Vancouver rentals.

"Please message for more details," reads the post so presumably an interested party could reach out for images of the room and an answer to the throuple question.