"Last but not leased” is a real estate pun on “last but not least.”
“We need one more person for our four bedroom apartment. He’s last but not leased” was posted on Twitter by The Business Boy on May 10, 2013. “Did you hear about the last remaining unit in the apartment building? It was last but not leased” was posted on The Close on March 6, 2019. “Local apartment building had only one opening left. It’s last but not leased” was posted on Facebook by Indian Hills Community Sign on April 21, 2020.
Twitter
The Business Boy
@PajamaBen_
We need one more person for our four bedroom apartment. He’s last but not leased.
HAHAHAHA fuck it all anyway right?
3:07 AM · May 10, 2013·Twitter for iPhone
Twitter
Alex Maloy
@AlexMaloy
[me as a real estate agent, showing someone the last available apartment for rent]
“And last but not leased”
1:50 PM · Mar 24, 2016·Twitter for iPhone
The Close
79 Real Estate Jokes, Puns, & Pick Up Lines You Haven’t Heard 1000 Times
Emile L’Eplattenier
March 6, 2019
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5. The Lowest Inventory
Did you hear about the last remaining unit in the apartment building? It was last but not leased.
Twitter
REMAX United WBurg
@RemaxKnowsWBurg
#FridayFunny:
Did you hear about the last remaining unit in the apartment building? It was last, but not leased.
2:14 PM · Mar 22, 2019·Facebook
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jb kelly, Auctioneers
@jbkellydublin
what do you call the last unoccupied unit in an apartment block?
last but not LEASED
#RealEstate #realestatememe #realestatememes #funny #puns #jokes #apartments
GIF
7:52 AM · Jul 11, 2019·Twitter Web App
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GWE Compliance Ltd
@LtdGwe
Did you hear about the one remaining apartment in the new building?
It was last but not leased!
https://gwecompliance.co.uk
#landlord #weekend #propertycare #boiler
7:00 AM · Sep 30, 2019·SocialPilot.co
Facebook
Indian Hills Community Sign
April 21, 2020 at 3:13 PM ·
LOCAL APARTMENT BUILDING HAS ONLY ONE OPENING LEFT
IT’S LAST BUT NOT LEASED
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.
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