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@jetsa: I would love that especially if the request came with monetary compensation. There are only a few things I treasure in our home and that I for sure want to take to the next one.

craziest thing was probably the grossest. When I toured a home once one of the upstairs toilets had not been flushed. It was the kids bathrooms and I gave the LOs a pass since they are probably still learning. But, the parents should have inspected the house before letting people in.

When I sold my condo, the new owner starting moving in before we closed - without my permission! Her agent just gave her the keys and said it was ok because I had moved out. Well on closing day, I went to get the last few things I had left behind and there she was moving in already.

We had some people come by the house while we were home. They didn't knock, but were walking around the front yard and porch before we finally went out and were like "umm...can we help you? we're home". They apparently weren't embarrassed at all, and even after that conversation walked around to the back and were nosing around the yard and deck. We had to go out a second time to blatantly tell them to go away and schedule an appt if they wanted to see the house.

Ha! People are bold.
When we were looking at a house last year (with our realtor, didn't just 'visit' like the people above ) there was a note in what must have been a tween's room that basically said 'Dear people looking at my house on (insert date), if you buy this house it will ruin my life and you will be haunted!'
Well, it worked. There is no way I would buy a house with such bad ju-ju.
Then when we did buy a house, and we were pretty near the closing date something was going on with a missing signature or something minor our lawyer was on top of and the seller put it back on the market on Red Fin. My phone dinged that I had a new email and it was an open house alert for that weekend-- for the house I thought we were moving into! It was a stressful time.

We toured a lot of short sale and bank owned properties and saw a lot of things. I can't limit it to just one.

DH walked in on a naked teenaged girl getting out of the shower. Her whole family was home and we had an appointment but I guess nobody told her not to be naked in the hallway.

There was a house that was abandoned with food in the fridge. The food/sludge had seeped out of the fridge, through the floor, down to the living room on the lower level of the house. It smelled so terrible. That house also had a grow room basement and was red tagged for vermin control. It had over a dozen offers.

There was a house where the renters blocked the door to one room with a 6ft crucifix - I assume so the house wouldn't sell and they wouldn't be forced to leave.

A house with a two story Jesus mosaic on the rear wall in the backyard.

A house where the owner was home, actively trying to sell, but admitted he refused to cleanup after his teenagers. Dirty tissues and underwear were everywhere. So gross.

There was a house that had a beautiful kitchen but it wasn't on the same story of the house as the dining room and living room. So they built an additional kitchen in the garage.

We were preparing to move out of our rental and someone else had leased the townhouse, so when we saw a request for a showing we rejected it. They showed up anyway and we weren't prepared and the house was a mess - it was the people who signed the new lease and they said they just wanted to measure the windows for curtains so we let them in...then they proceeded to walk all over the house asking us detailed questions about every room of the house and any potential flaws.

We sold our condo and were just like a week or so away from closing when our neighbor (in same building) was having some work done and their unlicensed, uninsured contractor flooded our entire basement and refused to take responsibility for items that he ruined or clean it up.

Craziest thing I've ever heard was a news article a few years ago about a guy who stole houses. Yup, stole them. He would move into a foreclosed house, change the locks, and then file tons of paperwork with the county.

We looked at the house up the street from ours when we were looking at houses. It had geckos for every door handle. It also had a hole cut out of the floor of the master bedroom with a staircase going down to its own separate entrance from the rest of the basement. It took over a year to sell!

We walked into the (pretty large) walk in closet of one house and it was just filled with lingerie. Nothing but lingerie. And the people were home at the time. It was a couple in their 40s probably and their preteen daughter. That made for a very awkward exit.

You guys---- we're in the process of buying a new house and this thread is giving me hives!!!!!

@prettylizy: I went through my old list of houses (still saved as favorites) and seriously I have the heebie-jeebies, flashing back to crawling through seriously bizzare and disgusting houses. UGH.

@mrs. wagon: I'd never seen anything like that in my life and almost couldn't believe it. So many strange stories when trying to buy a house.

@catlady: Aw, mine was in Needham. I was totally interested in Hingham too!! Haha. But yes-- I literally have "Frankenhouse" written in the notes section of one of the houses we saw!! The left side of the house was old and the right was new, but it didn't look like an attached building, it just continued on under the same roof.

@jetsa: We bought our house without a lane way! Lol.
We live in the country on 50 acres and our house was just kind of there in the middle of a field. We bought in the winter when it wasn't so bad, but last spring we had to put a lane in... obviously.
That's kind of weird... right? haha.

@Corduroy: Do you live in FL!? I swear we saw so much of that stuff!

The worst was a short sale that had a squatter in it. The house was TRASHED with food everywhere, no AC (95 degrees out) and a nasty smell...when we went upstairs a door slammed then opened and we heard someone running down the stairs and out the front door

These are horrifying!

The worst was a house that said on the listing "the basement has some mold" and when we opened the door, walked halfway down, I could see literally 3' of green mold on every wall. The smell was overpowering! I walked right back up and out of the house. Yuck!!!

The other was the house that an elderly couple lived in (they were home at the showing) and they wanted to show us all the handicap accessible features like the motorized chair that carried them up the stairs. We got out of there as quick as possible and they were so confused!

Two days after a house came onto the (non-competitive market) in the month of August, I put an offer for full asking price with the seller covering closing costs and an October closing date. The sellers came back and said that they would close in October, and they would pay $3000 in closing costs as rent until January when they wanted to move out. $3000 is way below four months rent for that house. I felt bad for their agent; she didn't find out until then that they refused to move until January.