https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 05 May 2026 22:16:41 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/house-hunting-horror-stories#post-2356262 Sat, 14 Nov 2015 04:21:09 +0000 Cherrybee 2356262@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MediaNaranja: That's the worst house hunting story I've ever heard! </p> <p>We viewed a house where the previous owners had knocked most of the internal walls down but had left pillars where the walks were load bearing and had left the individual doors coming off the main entrance hall. He had then put in fitted kitchen units stretching from the original kitchen into what was the dining room, but he hadn't removed the gas fire! It was so weird and would have cost a fortune to put right! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/house-hunting-horror-stories#post-2356236 Sat, 14 Nov 2015 00:48:58 +0000 hellobeeboston 2356236@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@erinbaderin: yeah, that kind of thing is usually written into the contract. That stinks! Did you have a wak-through prior? Sometimes everything is specified to be out prior to the walk through. Oh well, it's done, so frustrating though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/house-hunting-horror-stories#post-2356213 Fri, 13 Nov 2015 23:15:59 +0000 SugarplumsMom 2356213@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH hit his head (badly) on the ceiling while going up the stairs - it was an old farmhouse. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/house-hunting-horror-stories#post-2356164 Fri, 13 Nov 2015 21:20:43 +0000 regberadaisy 2356164@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@erinbaderin: what the shit. I would've charged her rent. :P </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/house-hunting-horror-stories#post-2356163 Fri, 13 Nov 2015 21:19:40 +0000 catlady 2356163@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We saw some houses that just made us sad, like one where there was a teenager's room with fist-sized holes in the walls.</p> <p>The weirdest one we saw actually looked awesome when we first walked in. It had an incredible first floor but in the basement, there was like a whole room filled with air ducts all twisted around each other in an enormous coil (like as big as the whole room), and some of them just ended without connecting to anything. I'm an engineer and I was just flabbergasted. The realtor acted like it was totally normal. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/house-hunting-horror-stories#post-2356148 Fri, 13 Nov 2015 20:59:38 +0000 erinbaderin 2356148@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@birdofafeather: We called our lawyer to ask his advice and he said legally there were no rules about when she had to be out (although I'm pretty sure there are, because once we have the keys the house belongs to us?) and that we couldn't touch any of her stuff. When we said the truck had to be returned he suggested we put all our stuff on the lawn (in Ontario in December). I don't think he was a very good lawyer. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/house-hunting-horror-stories#post-2356139 Fri, 13 Nov 2015 20:49:17 +0000 birdofafeather 2356139@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@erinbaderin: is that legal?!</p> <p>When looking for apartments, my roommate and I walked into a place where 2 homeless people were on a blow up mattress, possibly shooting up. We ran out of there! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/house-hunting-horror-stories#post-2356136 Fri, 13 Nov 2015 20:38:23 +0000 Littlebit7 2356136@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Omg these stories make me never want to move again. a "normal" move is terrible. These stories are heinous </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/house-hunting-horror-stories#post-2356135 Fri, 13 Nov 2015 20:37:10 +0000 Astro Bee 2356135@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When house hunting several years ago, we walked into a house that was being used as a rental property, with a bunch of young guys as tenants. They had had a party the night before, and hadn't cleaned up. There were cigarettes butts on the floor, open pizza boxes, bottles, and spilled beer everywhere, and even a pair of dirty underwear in the living room. The place waa soooo disgusting, and was clearly not being well maintained. We only looked into two rooms before turning around and leaving. We now have a policy against buying rentals as our primary residence. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/house-hunting-horror-stories#post-2356132 Fri, 13 Nov 2015 20:28:59 +0000 alphagam84 2356132@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We looked at one house that was unoccupied that had a huge mirrored wall in the living room and then we discovered we had picked up fleas in the back room of the house! So gross! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/house-hunting-horror-stories#post-2356095 Fri, 13 Nov 2015 19:17:42 +0000 erinbaderin 2356095@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ours wasn't a house hunting nightmare but a house buying - we bought a house, got the keys, and showed up with our truck to find the house still full of stuff (not even packed! Clothes in the closets, food in the fridge!) and nobody home. We sat around for 5 hours before the previous owner wandered in around 7pm, blithely said "oh, sorry, my truck cancelled so I was trying to find another one" and then started packing and loading. When we tried to help to speed up the process she said no, we didn't know how she wanted things. Then she said "I'll give you $5 and you can go get a coffee for half an hour and then I'll be done." At that point there were 8 members of my family and friends sitting around waiting for this woman to get out so we could unpack. It was midnight before she left. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/house-hunting-horror-stories#post-2355974 Fri, 13 Nov 2015 16:58:11 +0000 fancyfunction 2355974@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We saw a house that was currently occupied by renters - it was filthy. The best part? The wife ran a rabbit rescue out of the basement so when we went down there, there were rabbits and guinea pigs everywhere, along with their waste!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/house-hunting-horror-stories#post-2355970 Fri, 13 Nov 2015 16:53:21 +0000 BabyBoecksMom 2355970@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MediaNaranja: omg that's crazy!!!</p> <p>@mediagirl: Ummmm the rooms in the basement.... yeah, no </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/house-hunting-horror-stories#post-2355959 Fri, 13 Nov 2015 16:37:40 +0000 Maysprout 2355959@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We had a similar experience. We went out and I said oh the backyard is huge. And then we saw a guy who looked really unkempt biking through the middle. The realtor goes 'oh he must have gotten confused and turned down your driveway'. A couple minutes later it happens again, different guy. So I walk out farther in the yard and there's this huge congregation of middle age gruff looking guys hanging out. Turns out the driveway was really an alley way and the lot across and next to it just happened to be empty, which made it a nice hang out spot for whatever these guys were doing. They didn't seem particularly like they wanted us in the neighborhood so we said no thanks on that house.<br /> We also noped out of that realtor, she seemed kinda slimey and kept just saying what she thought we wanted to hear instead of just telling us about the truth about diff houses. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/house-hunting-horror-stories#post-2355925 Fri, 13 Nov 2015 16:10:47 +0000 Mrs.KMM 2355925@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The worst we had was a house where the entire place just reeked of cat pee. Gross! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/house-hunting-horror-stories#post-2355911 Fri, 13 Nov 2015 16:05:44 +0000 avivoca 2355911@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We went to a house where the decor hadn't been changed since the 1950s. Even the appliances were the same. The entire house felt like the woman who had died was still there. We went to the basement to figure out how we were going to get out of there (the realtor was clingy) and when we went upstairs, it smelled like dead, rotting meat. The heirs had not cleaned out the refrigerator and the realtor opened the door. </p> <p>We could not get out of there fast enough. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/house-hunting-horror-stories#post-2355898 Fri, 13 Nov 2015 16:01:26 +0000 Chuckles 2355898@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We saw a house that had multiple crazy things about it but the best part was that the bathroom, including tub surround and walls *up to the ceiling*, were covered with linoleum peel and stick tiles. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/house-hunting-horror-stories#post-2355893 Fri, 13 Nov 2015 15:57:53 +0000 mediagirl 2355893@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MediaNaranja: NO!! :shocked: </p> <p>The last house I went to see, we walked up into the attic and I came eye to eye with a baby squirrel. Inside. The. Attic. </p> <p>One time we went to see a house that had laundry hanging on couches, the dishwasher was open and dirty dishes were all over the kitchen and the back door was left wide open. So weird.</p> <p>Then there was the time we went into the basement of a house in Baltimore city and there were 4 rooms down there. All of the rooms had padlocks on the outside of the doors and crazy drawings on the walls inside the rooms. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/house-hunting-horror-stories#post-2355890 Fri, 13 Nov 2015 15:56:50 +0000 simplyfelicity 2355890@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I went to a house without any floors. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/house-hunting-horror-stories#post-2355887 Fri, 13 Nov 2015 15:53:24 +0000 Golden 2355887@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yikes! I was living in a very expensive city and when going to look at places in the 1k/month range a landlord looked me up and down and asked how tall I am (I'm 5'4"). I get inside and see the cielings are only 5'6"! Pass. Another place had a support beam or elevator shaft directly across from the front door. So you had to move around the door to exit/enter which wouldn't have been a deal breaker. What was a deal breaker was when I asked how people moved furniture in and was told most people have inflatable furniture. Like inflatable beds and couches. No thanks!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/house-hunting-horror-stories#post-2355869 Fri, 13 Nov 2015 15:41:37 +0000 MediaNaranja 2355869@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH and I are looking for our 1st home. Our budget isn't huge, but luckily we live in a city with a relatively low cost of living. Most of the houses have been pretty decent. Others, not so much</p> <p>But yesterday, OMG. Takes the cake. We went to see an un-occupied house not too far off a major avenue. When our realtor opened the back door to show us the backyard there were people sitting on the back porch with needles sticking out of their arms--yikes! That house (and the entire neighborhood) got a big ol' PASS.</p> <p>What's your worst house-hunting horror story?? </p>