Damn You Craig’s List, How You Get My Hopes Up

First the literal hole in the wall ($35 a month), now a tree house for $150 a month:

Williamsburg sculptor Adam Dougherty put his South Fifth St. backyard tree house up for rent as a gag — but learned that in Brooklyn’s sky-high real estate market, it was no joke.

Since last Saturday, the Craigslist.com posting has drawn more than 30 prospective buyers, renters and vacationers — even though Dougherty never had any intention of branching out into property transactions.

“I thought people would immediately take this as a joke, that it would get flagged,” said Dougherty, 29. “But the sincerity of some of these people!”

“I can’t blame ’em,” he added. “I mean, $150 for a place to stay in New York? That sounds like a dream.”

It was no dream to Gabriel, a “young artist currently sleeping in my van.”

“I’d be up for a summer of sleeping outdoors,” he e-mailed Dougherty.

Then there was Ryan, who figured out there probably wasn’t any running water in the tree house and typed this question: “If I need to, can I shower at your house?”

Although the ad said only “$150 – Tree House,” most who responded assumed the dollar figure was either for a weekend stay or the actual sale price, Dougherty said.

The year-old pinewood triangular house hovers 23 feet over Brooklyn, and fits up to 17 people at once, he said.

The 12-by-12-by-10-foot shelter is empty, except for a light hooked up to a 23-foot extension cord that runs down to his apartment.