House hunting has been a fun adventure and, like any adventure, it took some weird twists and turns. So we figured since we highlighted some of our close-but-no-cigar finds (here, here, here, and here) we should take a second to share some of our no-way-no-how finds as well. Because they were actually pretty darn entertaining.
First, we encountered a mammoth split level. From the outside it looked like your usual split-level home. Until we got inside and realized it had SIX floors. Yes, six. That’s six times the number of levels we’re currently used to. Granted the top (attic) and bottom (basement) weren’t entirely finished, but still – wow. You can thank my brilliant artist’s rendering below to roughly show you how it was laid out:
Then there was the dark house. Not “this doesn’t get very much natural light” dark. This was “um, there’s no electricity” dark. When we arrived the realtor discovered that the power wasn’t working – whether from the owner not paying the bills or from a storm earlier that day we’ll never know. But bless her heart, the agent was determined to show the house to us anyways. So we busted out our cell phones as flashlights (it was about 6pm on a cloudy day, so there wasn’t much natural light to speak of) and we walked through carefully. In the end, we think the darkness probably did the house a favor because it didn’t appear to be very clean.
And speaking of clean… there was also the house where the owner’s idea of staging was to leave her shoe collection scattered across the master bedroom floor. Picture piles of high heels everywhere (sort of like the pic below, but not running shoes and not nearly as orderly). We couldn’t even step into the room because of the mess. Maybe they were trying to impress us with how many shoes they could afford?
Now I’m sure we’re not the only ones with crazy house hunting stories, so we can’t wait to hear what you guys have encountered. Isn’t it amazing what some people consider “designed to sell”? What craziness have you seen? And have you checked out this site? Oh the hilarity.
Dark room photo from here, shoe photo from here.
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Laura says
The craziest house we saw had to be the one that had giant mushrooms growing out of the carpet. Yuck.
Micha says
I’m SO glad to see that we were not the only ones touring really “odd” properties *LOL*
Granted we are looking to buy a fixer-upper and a historical one at that, but boy, did we see oddities! We finally referred to the houses we toured by nicknames such as “termite temple”, “80s wonder”, etc.
The house we just put an offer in is far from clean but the potential, oh the potential!
Katy says
we almost bought a house that had at least 4 vacuum cleaners arranged in the basement up on a platform, like they were trophies or something
Ana says
These stories are insane. I don’t have any that even come close.
When looking for my first house in 2005, I bought the first house I saw though I did view others, including one in which a tenant stayed in the house smoking as my realtor and I went through. She actually seemed to take great pleasure in exhaling on us when she let us in.
On the second house hunt last year I saw:
— A house painted in carnival colors (teal, hot pink, purple, yolk yellow, orange, etc.) that smelled of mold.
— A house in which the owner had sacrificed half — the bottom half — of the closets to run duct work for the central air. So not only was there only half the amount of storage space but you had to keep the closet doors open to get air.
— A house on my street priced $80K higher even though it had people-shaped dents in the drywall and a kitchen that looked like a spaghetti-sauce grenade had gone off and no one ever cleaned it up.
On the selling end, I had a second showing of my old house where the potential buyers wanted their parents to see it before they put in an offer. Luckily, I came back between them and the next group of buyers because they had:
— Moved the washing machine and not put it back (That was fun to struggle with single-handedly.)
— Used the bathroom and not flushed (EWW!) and also left footprints in the bathtub
— Left the back door open
Those people gave me a low-ball offer I took great pleasure in rejecting. Luckily, I got several others and didn’t have to deal with them again.
Shannon says
My husband and I just finished house hunting in Florida, which as you can imagine had its share of horrors. Florida tends toward the new, cookie-cutter and boring, or the old, strange and interesting. Being a bit eclectic, we chose the old, strange and interesting category. We knew we didn’t want our house looking like anyone else’s! In our search we looked at a foreclosure (which was just sad, and the loft area was completely unsafe, I swear the floor MOVED when I walked across it.) We also saw a house that had addition upon addition, it just kept going and the floor plan made no sense! I had a similar experience to Marci, when we pulled up to the last house, a man and his son were living for football, and he mentioned that his wife was inside, asleep on the couch. When we walked in there was a horrible musty smell, tons of furniture and junk piled everywhere (It reminded me of Hoarders)/ But no woman in sight. We decide to peek around just to be polite and as we are heading to the porch a voice pops up out of nowhere and starts talking to us! She scared the crap out of us and wouldn’t stop talking! Needless to say, our realtor took one for the team, and certainly earned his commission!
Marie says
We saw a house where “fixer upper” was an understatement–I was scared to go up the stairs because it seemed like I would fall through the ceiling.
My favorite was the old lady house. Gracing her living room was an enormous 3 foot wide painting of The Last Supper (wait for it) ON VELVET.
Cassie Kimler says
We just recently bought our first house, and the very first house we looked at, had chiropractic beds in EVERY ROOM( he was at school for it) but in a creepy doctor room type way, used smelly boxers on the floor for us to walk over, beer bottles, wine bottle right next to an open windex bottle with no top, don’t even start at the piles of dirty dishes with gnats or flies whatever it was flying in the kitchen.. GROSSS.. one house had the fridge on but mold covering the freezer and fridge.. its really amazed me how people did nothing to sell their home.
Ashley says
During one walk-through, the family was home. They stayed in the living and watched TV. They gave us the green light to go upstairs and look at all of the bedrooms. One bedroom door was closed so we knocked and no one answered. When we opened the door, there was a 20-something girl passed out on the bed. To make matters worse, she was half naked and in a very reavealing position…. (legs WIDE open). I was mortified and she never woke up! Why were her family not tell us she was sleeping in her room?????
MacKenzie says
We just bought a house that we first saw with no lights. They were replacing the electrical box with a new 220 one. That ended up being a good selling feature because except for the basement, I could still see everything, the light in it is that good – not that I don’t think we will be utilizing the electricity use we actually move in though :-)
B says
My friends and I were being shown a house once as a rental. Our realtor drives us up to this house and is having trouble getting in the front door. He gets the key in and opens it up, but the burglar alarm starts blaring, he told us not to worry so we walked around looking at the house while our eardrums are being assaulted. Lastly he takes us down to the basement where we finally have some peace and quiet , he’s turning on lights and telling us about the place being pretty normal… All of a sudden mid-conversation we realize he’s gone into the bathroom and started urinating with the door open! He never broke conversation, so bizarre. He never mentioned it and we just got in our car and drove away… we didn’t see another house with him.
Shana says
We rented in a neighbourhood which over the 8 years of living there had gentrified incredibly – from crack houses to not being able to throw a rock and hit a fancy coffee house and then a city magazine listed it as the hottest neighbourhood and even in a recession our little neighbourhood boomed. When it came time to buy there was no way we could afford the hood – but we weren’t ready to give up just yet (stubborn) and in our price range we saw some scary stuff. We figured we’d get a nice little fixer upper and it would be fine! We were not prepared for what we saw.
The final straw was a place that was on the outer limits of the neighbourhood anyway – it had one owner for 50 years – a hoarder who favoured collecting taxidermy and had died leaving the house to a son who was now renting out rooms as a rooming house. When we got there we were almost attacked by a huge dog who’d busted through the door of the room where it was barricaded all Cujo styles and the table was covered in drug cooking accessories. The hoarding was so bad we couldn’t even enter different rooms and then when we did – yikes stuffed animals staring at you!!
Then the realtor told us the house had in fact sold that afternoon but they’d not been able to reach us and they were sorry we’d come all the way out there. The kicker – it had sold for $50K OVER asking and the asking price was at the top of our limit anyway.
We left and I sat on the curb sobbing. We went home that night and started researching new neighbourhoods. Luckily we found a great place and an even better neighbourhood once we stopped being so stubborn!
girlvaughn says
The condo we bought had a really terrible odor in the bedroom, newspaper clippings taped to the front door and a Derek Jeter cardboard stand-up in the dining room. The odor was gone after one carpet cleaning and we were able to see beyond Jeter.
Cristina S. says
Since most of the homes we’ve viewed are foreclosures, we’ve had to view many with no lights, but now with the time change for the winter it’s made house hunting limited to the weekends :(
One place we did view that had tenants was a horrifying experience. The woman opened her door in PJ’s and about five kids were in front of the tv eating cereal and watching cartoons. They didn’t seem to mind us much attention but when we went upstairs there was a baby sleeping in a crib & the woman had not mentioned a thing about! There were also three other beds crammed into the same bedroom. It was as sad as viewing a foreclosure.
Needless to say, we’re still searching.
Gin says
This is a just after move-in story, but still pretty funny…I have a friend who rented a house in a decent upper-middle class neighborhood when he first moved to a new city…the neighbors stopped by the day after he moved in, to say how glad they were that the “former crack house” now had a tenant, and they hoped there would be fewer parties and visitors at all hours of the day and night.
A few days later, the cable guy was installing wiring and his drilled snagged on something behind the paneling. He pulled out – I kid you not – the largest pair of lacy, leopard-print underwear my friend had ever seen. Apparently, the place had been a more than just a crack house, but the mystery of how those things got inside a wall was never solved…
Debbie says
Well I don’t think my stories are nearly as bad so some of the others here, but here is some from when my husband and I were house shopping two years ago.
One of the houses we looked at there was a enormous wasp next on the railing right next to the door. I am terrified of wasps so I didn’t even go inside.
The house that we ended up buying, the fist showing was fine. The house was very clean, nobody home, no pets around. The second time we went through it, the lady left her bras hanging all over the master bathroom. There was at least six of them, and the master bathroom is not that large, so when I walked into the bathroom I went face first into one… When we closed and finally moved in the lady left three hefty bags of cloths hangers. We were a little glad for that since we didn’t have to go out and buy anymore, but it was strange.
Becky says
We house hunted for exactly one year needless to say we saw about everything you can imagine. On the day we discovered our house we had the funniest expreience. We pulled into the driveway (it was the first of 4 we toured that day) and waited for our realtor to pull in behind us. She took us through the house but something wasn’t right. It had a basement listed on the mls sheet but we couldn’t find it. Then after taking a closer look at her mls sheet and the one laid out on the table we realized we were in the wrong house! The house was for sale but their agent hadn’t been informed of us checking it out. Thank goodness no one was home. The house we were supposed to look at was 2 doors down!
Liz says
Well I’m a renter so my story is a bit different…
My boyfriend and I were hunting for a new apartment and we found this place and made an appointment to look at it. We went and it was great, but just out of curiousity we asked the property manager to show us a larger unit in the same building. Thats when things got weird…
The property manager told us he could show us this place but it was currently occupied and the renters weren’t given notice of our visit. The property manager warned us it was a bit messy since it was short notice, which my boyfriend and I shrugged off since we figured we caught the renters off gaurd. So we go inside and this place is like a full out episode of that TV show Hoarders. Once you were in you couldn’t move! The kitchen had piles of old uneaten food laying around everywhere, the floors were PILED with garbage (so bad that you couldn’t enter the kitchen). We actually looked inside the bedroom and we couldn’t open the door because the room was covered with clothes (like floor to ceiling covered!). My boyfriend and I just looked at each other like ‘Let’s get out of here’ and the tenant just looked as us totally unphased. It was really bizarre. After we left, the property manager had the nerve to say, ‘don’t worry we’ll clean the carpets!’. Trust me if would have taken way more than that.
Rachel says
There was a “to-do” list on the white board in the office. “Buy new house” was checked off. “Sell condo” was underlined and had stars next to it. The sincere desperation entertained me, but we didn’t make an offer.
Erin says
This is not a house hunting story but a house selling story.. 5 years ago my husband got a job out of state and we were desperate to sell our house quickly so I could move as well. One weekend we woke up at 9am to our bedroom door opening… my husband and I jumped out of bed (our lazy yellow lab at our feet jumped up as well..a little late)…it was a realtor and house hunters-they had already toured our entire house by the time they got to the master bedroom-we screamed at the top of our lungs, once we realized what was going on..(and yelling-you didn’t leave a message that you were coming!)…we said-its ok (so desperate to sell) just give us a minute- we got dressed quickly, hid valuables, looked around to make sure nothing embarrassing was left out, went downstairs..to find the house hunters video taping the tour of the house!!! What the …?! I was so annoyed- who videos? Anyway…we jumped in the car ..headed to Dunkin Donuts and realized we had the WORST headaches ever..(they didn’t buy!)..
Beth says
Oh, man, these are all so great/horrible!
Back when the first time homebuyer’s credit was still in effect, we toured a little starter home that was a short sale. From the outside, it seemed cute enough, and the mortgage payment would have been less than our current rent. Inside, though, it was just sad. Obviously two adults and two children were living in this 1.5 bedroom home; the 2nd floor was basically a small open landing, not really a room, no door, and one bedroom. The only bedroom had two mattresses on the floor, with a box spring propped up between like a wall, and the walls were covered in crayon/marker drawings. The whole place was dirtier than anything I’d ever seen.
Man, thinking about that still makes me really sad.
Jen @ homeinthecountry says
When we were searching for our current home, we visited one that was a real -ahem- “gem”… When we arrived, one of the front windows was broken – we later found out that there was a break in attempt shortly before we got there – our real estate agent had to make a statement for the police report. When we entered the house, there was a huge puddle of cat vomit in the middle of the floor. As we entered one of the bedrooms, we noticed that a TV was on and there were biblical cartoons – which wouldn’t have been a big deal, if it weren’t for the juxtaposition between that & the large metal apparatus that took up the entire second bedroom. Once I figured out what it was (after spying the packaging for it), we ran out of there pretty quickly… the whole place was just a little too skeezy… Yikes.
Lori says
My husband and I came across a house with a Thomas Jefferson light switch cover in the dining room. Strange, huh?
kodie says
the worst for us was the house that was falling down. we entered the huge Victorian, only to be greeted by (ahem, ignored by) the renters, who were just hanging out, watching TV. awkward. then we started to venture upstairs to get away from the awkwardness. and that’s when i noticed the ceiling at the top of the stairs was falling. literally falling onto the staircase! we made a hasty retreat back down to the kitchen, where we were greeted by hundreds and hundreds of cockroaches. crawling all over everything. countertops, dirty dishes, even the baby’s high chair. that was enough for us.
then it was an adorable little house with a white picket fence. or at least it looked white from the black and white MLS flyer. we pull up to a yellow house with a hot pink picket fence. the inside looked like the marketing headquarters for Cartoon Network. the kitchen was covered in Tweety Bird. wallpaper, cookie jars, plates, clocks, etc. ok, we can deal with that…right? the bathroom was wallpapered in Precious Moments, the bedroom was done in Mickey Mouse, etc. after seeing all of the first floor, we all decided it was a 40-something single lady who lived there (think “Cathy”). then we saw the basement and were really confused. scrawled on the door at the foot of the stairs was “MIKE’S SPACE” and inside was a bona fide man cave, complete with a pool table and gigantic TV. so confused!
another was the Kansas City Chiefs house. wallhangings, blankets, wallpaper, bathroom stuff. everything in every room had a stinkin’ arrowhead on it. (and yes, i do live in KC, but please! dial it down a notch!)
and then the really cute house that we really liked. we spent a long time inside, checking out everything, thinking it was too good to be true. it was on a street that had houses only on one side and the other side had lots of trees. we didn’t really think anything about that side of the street (quieter, right?), until we stepped outside just in time for the train to pass…right on the other side of the street behind the trees. no thanks.
we had our house up for sale last year, and the worst thing lookers did was to walk around my entire house in muddy shoes. i have wood floors, so the damage was easily cleaned, but really? you can’t wipe your feet? or just take your shoes off??
Katreena says
To make a long story short…
Living room- Plaid wallpaper, plaid pillows, plaid curtains, plaid blankets.
Kitchen- Plaid wallpaper, plaid tablecloth, plaid valances. Also, they recently renovated the kitchen without a spot for a fridge because THEY preffered to keep it in the garage as a space saving solution…a DETACHED garage!!
Bathroom- pink plaid wallpaper, pink plaid shower curtain, pink tile, and pink CARPET.
Bedroom- plaid wallpaper, plaid curtains, plaid bedspread, yadda, yadda, yadda…..
We left after seeing the first bedroom, I couldn’t handle it anymore. The house was literally giving me a migraine.
Crissy says
So my realtor was great about pre-screening houses, but one time she took me to a house that a colleague of hers had listed before she viewed it. It was absolutely atrocious. The whole house smelled of animal (?) urine. In fact, the bedrooms had what looked suspiciously like urine stains on the walls/baseboards! The kitchen cabinets were falling apart…and were painted a bright road construction cone orange. But wait, there’s more…In the hallway, there was a giant chunk of hardwood floor missing. The tenant/owner had placed a large square of plywood in the hole that was painted in festive stripes. I wish I had a picture of my face after walking out of that house. It was just so bizarre.
Nina says
I remember house hunting with my mom when I was about 12 and coming across some little kid underwear with poop in them. Not like a streak, a whole poop.
Our current house was a short sale and was pretty dirty. The grossest thing was dry boogers up to 3 ft. high on every wall and cabinet in the house. We cleaned and cleaned and cleaned and then painted and painted again. We saw the house twice and there were people here both times. It was an obviouse fixer upper but I didn’t really notice how dirty it was because it was so uncomfortable seeing the house with them here.
Liz says
A friend of mine looked at a house that had a sex swing in the basement!
Rachel says
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susan says
And then there was the house that we looked at that smelled of dead something! And the house in the woods that was so dark that the lights had to be turned on at high noon for the tour! Oh, the memories of house hunting. susan
Kim says
We toured a house where the owners were in the middle of a divorce. One of the spouses had written negative “comments” about the other in four letter words all over the walls in every room.
Stef says
When we went house hunting we came across a house that was a complete disaster. Cats were eating off the kitchen table, the dogs used the unfinished basement as a bathroom, the woman had brown sheets tacked up over the windows in the living room and there were deadbolts on all of the bedrooms. CREEPY! Best of all, her son was sleeping on the living room couch so we couldn’t even turn the light on!
Gabrielle says
When me & my husband were house hunting, we took my father along for the ride & started with a house that boasted a (huge) family of…CATS! This was ok, because we figured we could look past this at the potential of the property…the thing we couldn’t get past was the smell when we got back into the car…one of the cats had peed in my fathers boots!!! Needless to say, that we didn’t choose this home. The home we did pick was great, it came with only 1 small problem, the previous owners were moving to France & decided that they didn’t need to bring anything (not the sofas, not the dishes, not even their personal bathroom stuff!!!). We only discovered this after the fact, when we put the key in the door & nearly tripped over their shoes! In the end I was left packing TWO homes (with 2 kids under the age of 3…)OMG!
danyelle says
I found a sink full of dirty dishes (and I mean week old dirty dishes) along with a bag of pot just out in the open. They called it a 3 bedroom house but 2 of the room’s could only fit a crib!
sonya says
Your post made me laugh out loud! I have tons of crazy house-hunting stories I could tell… my hubby and I were moving cross-country and had just 9 days to house hunt so we saw dozens of homes in that short amount of time, and I was appalled at the “staging”(or lack thereof) that people used. Two that stick out in my mind:
1- The bedroom that was painted with bright blue walls and a bright red ceiling… I mean, I love America, but all I could think of was the nightmare of painting over that!
2- We walked into a home that was still in the process of having some renovations and caught the male contractor PEEING off of the back deck. OH, and did I mention that there was a golf course behind the house, so he was literally peeing while people were teeing off less than 20 feet away! Peeing and teeing, haha!
Emma says
I only viewed two other houses beside the one I bought. The strange part of one house I saw was upstairs, they built a closet in the hallway around the only window. So the stairs and landing were completely dark. And the master bedroom door was saloon doors! no privacy what so ever!!
Kristi says
Ah, yes, house hunting. One house we looked at was owned by a couple who operated a parrot rescue. Small house + 12 LARGE PARROTS in the LIVING ROOM = never did sell. They finally took it off the market.
Kristen says
OMG – we decided that there must be a law that when showing your house, leave as much crap as possible out for people to step on, over, through, AND be sure that every single flat surface is covered with something. Plastic fruit, silk flowers, years of dust, your choice, but it better be something! ;-)
We looked at a house that was FULL of stuff (think hoarders but before it gets really out of hand) & had only about an 18 inch wide walkway through EVERY ROOM (all 2400 sq ft of the house). She had overgrown plants everywhere & we counted at least 5 cats wandering about (That was our deal killer, we have cat allergies & weren’t about to clean that up). But what really made it memorable was the linen closet – it was stocked, floor to ceiling, with hard liquor. Every. Square. Inch. And most of the bottles were open.
Frankly, I’m amazed that anyone could have made it through that house after drinking anything from that closet.
Nicole says
I have been house hunting on several different occasions in my lifetime, but my most recent experience takes the cake!
Hubby and I found a potential short sale in a really nice part of town, well within our price range, so we thought we might as well take a look. We were to meet with our realtor in the evening. When we pulled up to the house, lights were on inside, and we noticed several people in the living room. We thought that couldn’t possibly be the realtor, but it looked like they were expecting us because a child kept looking out the window.
We finally meet up with our realtor, who didn’t even know which house on the street was the one to look at! She knocks on the door, and it turns out the family was expecting us! In a short sale! Talk about awkward! There was a mom, dad, and three kids, two of which were under our feet the entire time! The house was small, and felt doubly small with all the extra people in there!
I’m still wierded out about the whole thing whenever I think of it!
Caroline says
Maybe she left the shoes out to show off the square footage!
elz says
We toured a home where half of everything was missing-his stuff. You could tell it was a recent divorce b/c the closet/bathroom/office all looked like they had been freshly wiped clean of 1/2 the stuff. It was sad.
Beth says
Some standouts from our house hunting days are:
1.) The house that was built in the 90’s but yet totally trapped in the 70’s. And the master bedroom had two separate double beds, with built cabinetry around both. Plus a fancy brass nightlite that literally hung right over your face in the bed. Not to mention the garage had beend “converted” into a wet bar/man cave complete with wood paneling everywhere. Klassy all the way.
2.) The house with an “Italian Winery” mural painted on the wall, icluding the door that led into the master bathroom. Tuscany, it was not. I can’t even describe how ugly it was.
3.) But the real winner was we affectionatly refer to as “The Disney House.” As in, there were Disney Princesses EVERYWHERE. Framed pictures on the wall (the only art actually to speak of) figurines & knicknacks on every surface, a themed bedspread even.
But the piece de resistance was the spare bedroom dedicated to the PRINCESS DOLL COLLECTION!!! Ariel, Jasmine, Bell, Aurora – were all there and accounted for.
And best of all did the couple that owned the house have young children?
No, they did not. PSYCHO!
Mindy@FindingSilverLinings says
I can’t help but laugh! When we were house hunting, one of the houses had a groovy college guy renting out the downstairs. When we made our way through the beaded door, we discovered he chose to display like 80 pairs of the smelliest moccasins ever! The whole floor reeked! Ew! That’s what shoe racks (and odor eaters) are for! Apparently these folks didn’t check out the YHL edition of how to clean your house before prospective buyers walk through it. Oh well!
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Mindy
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Dee Jensen says
When we were house hunting this spring we were so excited to check out an octagon home. It was really interesting with a lookout at the top. It was definitely a fixer upper, and we were prepared mentally to see the outdated orange shag carpet upstairs, but we were not prepared to see the mounds of laundry in the basement. So much clean and dirty laundry was scattered around the entire basement floor, we couldn’t walk through it. What was even more disturbing was the 50-100 bras hanging from hangers from the rafters and the pair of stained and obviously dirty underwear (not a child’s pair) lying face up on the floor.
I was pretty obsessive about cleaning our home for each showing, so it completely shocked me that some people didn’t care. Or maybe that was their perception of clean? Yikes!
Laura says
We once walked through a house that had a box in the closet labeled Human Heads! I kid you not!!
Katrina says
We toured a house that was in the neighborhood I used to live in before we seriously started looking at places. This house had a full bathroom upstairs and then a toilet on the main level. Well this lone toilet happened to be off a stair landing between the basement and kitchen. There was no sink, just a toilet separated from the food-prep kitchen by a curtain and within full view of the stairs all the way to the basement. And since it was tucked into the space off the landing, you would have to duck to sit on it! We’d decided when we did start to seriously search, we’d rather have only one bathroom than a bath and an extra random toilet!
Ashley says
There was an adorable older house that I had been wanting so badly. I scheduled a showing and were in for some lovely surprises. Toilets with pee still in them, a couch with beer cans on it and some stacked on the nearby table, a door that was glued shut in order to create another “space”, and several other little treats. Let’s just say this house doesn’t seem as cute anymore when I drive by. ha! Here I was stressing myself out cleaning and organizing like crazy to show our house. I was so shocked that people were okay about showing there house like that…crazy.
KatieV says
I’m going to read everyone’s comments–I’m sure there are some goodies!
We’ve been to a few houses where the tenants didn’t leave (these were homes that were for sale but were currently being rented out). One man was taking a nap in the master bedroom when we walked in, not yet knowing anyone was home. Just weird and awkward.
Christine B says
When we were house hunting two years ago we step into the ultimate cat lovers house. They had cats everywhere and framed photos of their cats everywhere. That was fine ya know I like animals. The werid part was all the bedrooms were open except one. I of course open it to find birds flying around the room! That def. made our decision for us.
Bethie says
Laura:
That could have been my house! My husband always labels our boxes with funny descriptions. One literally reads, “human heads (2)”.
Aleah @HeyBaklenko.com says
We looked at a house that was a bit outdated, then went outside to see the backyard. On the sideyard, they had an outdoor urinal!!!!! Connected to the side of the house, full visibility – neighbor’s fence/yard was probably 5 feet away. We thought, “Now that’s interesting – it’s too much to walk into the house to use the toilet?” It was only a 2500 square foot lot – the walk wasn’t too far!