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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!!

@MediaNaranja: NO!!

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.

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.

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.

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.

We could not get out of there fast enough.

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.
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.

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!!!

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!

Omg these stories make me never want to move again. a "normal" move is terrible. These stories are heinous

@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.

@erinbaderin: what the shit. I would've charged her rent.

@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.