... If the person who used to own your house (whom you've never met) suddenly showed up on your doorstep over a year after closing on your house?? 
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In general, yes.
For the person who actually used to own my house, no. She is a nice older lady.
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Yes, thankfully we won't have that problem!
I'm guessing this happened to you......why did they stop by?
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Did you open the door and talk to them? What was their reason for being there?
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Uh yeah. I'd wonder why and what propelled them to come back. How awkward!
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To apparently be helpful and explain some of his weird wiring?? Hubs is outside talking to him and has been for over an hour and generally seems friendly toward him. But this is seriously freaking. me. out. I want him to go away. Now. And never come back. But it may be the mother bear in me.
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I wouldn't expect it to happen, but I wouldn't find it that strange.
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I think it would be odd but it certainly wouldn't freak me out. People can be nostalgic about their former homes.
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Wouldn't bother me unless they were mega-creepy
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Did you change the locks when you moved in? That pushes the boundaries for me. Creepy. He should have just relayed the message through the realtor or something.
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I'd be totally freaked out but only because she's dead.
If it were a living person I wouldn't really worry.
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It happened to us, but they brought their kids. They had run into neighbors who told them about the work we did and they were curious! Your circumstances seem a little more peculiar!
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My parents sold my childhood home 3 years ago. I'd love to go back but I never do because I don't want to freak people out. This post shows me I made the right choice.
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Nah, there's something cool about visiting your old home!
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The guy who used to own our house apparently comes by a couple times a year! I went outside to get something and saw someone looking at me from a car across the street and he got out to tell me he comes by to look at the house whenever he's in town. Creepy!
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Not unless the person seemed sketchy. We had a guy stop by our house who had grown up there-in the 1950s! We took him all around and he showed us some cool things we didn't realize were there. He came back a couple of years later (he lives in CA, we're in NY).
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@ladybee: Me too! I would love, love to do this with a few houses we lived in.
I wouldn't be freaked out, as long as they were nice.
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In general, I would be a bit creeped out. But our old owners have been back twice (both times to pick up mail) and they did not stay long.
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If you had the locks changed, I wouldn't be worried.
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No I don't think it's be a big deal.
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Happened to us! I thought it was a bit weird, but he had a good reason.
The previous owner was expecting a package that had mistakenly been sent to his old address, and asked if he could pick it up from us when it arrived, instead of us sending it back/forwarding it. -
The house went into foreclosure before we purchased it, so we actually bought it from a bank not an individual. And the house had been on the market for a year when we finally did purhase it. The guy (who stopped by today) was approximately same age as hubs and had gone through a messy divorce with kids. Military marriage that didn't last. But by all accounts he was a recluse who was really strange after the divorce. So it's uber creepy that he shows up out of the blue and knocks on our door. And yes, we changed locks the day after we closed.
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The old owners of our house showed up to trick-or-treat the Halloween after we closed (we bought the house in May). It was a little creepy, because the closing was a little stressful, and the woman (who was with the kids trick-or-treating) was a little...intense. She hasn't been back since then, though.
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@oliviaoblivia: haha that made me laugh!
eh, I don't know. We had someone and her kids stop who lived here several years before the people before us, and before them, lived here. It was a little weird but she was just excited to show her kids where she grew up.
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For your specific situation yeah, it'd definitely be a little weird. You never know how people will react in a foreclosure situation. In our case, nope. She's a nice older lady whose family still lives in the neighborhood.
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I fully expect the previous owners of our house show up. They loved the house and planned to have it as their forever home before the husband got sick. I'd bet money that the guy drives by while DH and I are at work.
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We once had an acquaintance of the previous owners show up at our door and ask where they were.. I'm assuming that if he was really a friend of theirs they would have told him they were moving to a different city, so it was weird that he showed up looking for them.
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Nah, it's totally something I would do. Heck, Miranda Lambert wrote a song about it.
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Not really.
Although, considering the former owner is my dead FIL... maybe.
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No, I don't think so. I would think it was a little strange, but it wouldnt creep me out.
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We used to live in a large Victorian house and the old lady who we bought it from had boarded college students in it for 30-some years, so maybe once a month we'd get a stranger knocking on the door asking if they could see the house again because they had so many memories of it. I usually just took their e-mail addresses and promised to send them pictures instead.
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If he was friendly I wouldn't mind at all. Now if he kept coming back uninvited all the time, I might have a problem.
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I've only lived in brand new for about the past 20 years so that would be super creepy!
But, if I didn't live in brand new houses I think it would depend on the person. If it was someone who was friendly and just being nostalgic, then I probably wouldn't mind. If I got a creep vibe from them, I would definitely not be too impressed. Or if they came back more than once.
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Yeah, but only because our house was a foreclosure and I saw how they treated the house..and plus, he never changed his magazine subscriptions..soo we got Ebony and Penthouse magazine for a whole year after we moved in.
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I would be super annoyed. We bought our house from the daughter of the house's long-time owner. Her parents intended to sell the house and go RV-ing in their retirement. The husband had some health issues that caused them to quit RVing and buy a condo down the street. The parents are OBSESSED with the house.
The former owner's mom works the polls and probably twice a year I have to hear her say "How is my house? I've been meaning to come by and see what you've been doing and NOT doing."
I just look at her and blink when she says that.
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Yes!!
The previous owner's (ex?) boyfriend stopped by one day late last year inquiring about renting the house in hopes of winning her back. He said his ex talks and reminisces about the house all the time. He thinks it'd be a great idea to rent the house from us and bring her one day and be like "look babe. I got this for you!" and that it'd win her heart back.
I never answer the door for someone I don't know minus deliveries, and yet, for some reason, I did that day! Totally weird!
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Nah, we semi-expect the old homeowners to come back. We drive past our old home whenever we're up that way to see what's changed.
@jedeve: yep, me too
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In our case, the old owners only moved down the street. We can actually see their new house from ours. They have stopped by to say hi once, but typically we just ignore each other. (The negotiations over the final purchase price got pretty yucky, so we're not big fans of each other.) I have also dropped by their house down the street to deliver some mail that was sent to our house mistakenly.
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No. I don't see why it is a big deal. If they wanted to come inside, that would probably bother me but just standing outside to talk isnt a big deal.
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I think it depends on each individual situation on why the house was sold. In your case, I would be a little creeped out. It sounds as if he never really wanted to leave/sell the house, but was forced to.
For us, the former owners were here a long time, and the husband was relocated to Canada. He actually works for the same company as my husband. We've gotten a few of his paychecks delivered to our house, and DH will interoffice them to him and email with him from time to time. He was super nice and gave us the low down on our neighbors.
I do know that he and his wife were relocated back to where we live. If they stopped by and knocked, I'd gladly let them in and even show them around and what we've done with the house. They were an older couple and are seriously incredibly nice.
I'd like to think that if my parents ever sold their house that I would drive by every once in a while to see it. My dad built the house and they were the only owners. It's my childhood house and I would hope someone wasn't too creeped out if I knocked on the door to say hello.
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