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Sabotage, the previous renter did not want to move out when we bought the home.. ( this was many years ago)
He went into the attic and cut 12 inch pieces of the cable wiring leaving gaps... Had to get the entire house rewired..
Also found a couple of bags of apparently lost or stashed and forgotten dope on an upper closet shelf...
Marijuana seeds and "shake" in the built in bathroom magazine rack..
There were a few other things I can't remember anymore..
Turns out his brother in law was the guy who did the pre sale inspection..
Cool thread! I've always wanted to get a house full of hidden treasures but this is all I got:
We wondered why we had a huge water bill the first month we moved into our current house, after some investigating we found out a line was connected to our main waterline that went to a barn on the property behind us... and the barn was being used to house a bunch of pigs we didn't know about until we moved in.
Luckily we got the water turned off to the barn that day; the hog farm turned out to be illegal and was quickly vacated. Now the barn is gone and that property is growng mcmansions like weeds.
My brother once bought an old home in a historic district that was in desperate need of some upkeep. Some old man had lived there but needed to move into a nursing home, so the house was up for sale. This was in the early 1990s. Anyway, my brother bought it from the probate court and moved in. A few days later he was cleaning up and found a newspaper laying on the dining room table. The date? My brother's birthday, 1955. He eventually made a lot of money on that house.
Speaking of wiring, we found out the hard way that all the electrical outlets were stab-wired when the house was built, instead of the wiring being wrapped around the screw. How did we find out? We had a fire. Don't ask for details; 20 years later, it is still too painful to discuss. Needless to say, we paid an electrician to rewire every outlet in the house after that.
when we were moving into a home we had just bought, an older dissheveled man appeared and began wandering through the house and was disoriented and becoming agitated. we weren't sure what to do. a neighbor recognized him and called our realtor, who got him to leave. he showed up 2 or 3 more times and our realtor did the same thing. it turns out he was the previous owner of the house, he had lived there 30+ years and his wife had passed away recently and he had moved into a condominium in town, but was having a hard time seeing someone else paint and change and move into his home. it was sad.
-As a teen my parent's purchased a very nice custom home that had been previously rented out to a person who was rumored to film pornos in it and deal drugs. I found a bullet hole in one of the solid oak doors.
-A few years ago I got into one of our investment properties after an eviction. (We keep very nice, clean, updated, well-maintained homes and this was probably one of 2 evictions in 15 years) The former tenant had allowed a leak to go unreported in the unfinished cement block basement, and they left a big mess of moldy wet furniture and a soggy, mildewed cushion on the floor where their teenage kid was sleeping with no heat.
-In the same rental, I found a nasty used condom in the parent's master bedroom closet. It was kind of blown up halfway like a balloon and had some sort of filthy black liquid floating in it with the end tied shut. If anyone has any idea what this was, please post it as it boggles my mind to this day why anyone would do this!
-We purchased a home from a man who built it himself and was a heavy drinker. A few months later I noticed that there were like 5 spindles mounted completely upside down that were holding up the stair railing.
The house I grew up in had a built in library in the living room. It was built in 1940 and my parents bought it in 1967. One time, when I was a child in the early 1980s and we were on vacation, somebody broke into our house. The person broke the basement door window to the outside to gain access. They then came up the basement steps and took a hammer and screwdriver from our kitchen junk drawer. The person then went into the living room and pried off one piece of the bottom panel of the library. They didn't bother or take anything else. The space behind the panel was covered in dust except for one rectangular area about the size of a shoe box. Whatever they were after had been sitting in there the whole time.
While remodeling, when we changed out the stove from the original, there were like unusual markings on the wall that had been hidden by the old stove. A large pentagram and some other strange markings. The house was built in the early 1970's. I did not give it much thought and neither did the installer from the store that we bought it from. He just slapped it into place where the old stove had been. And then the haunting began....ok, there was not any haunting. Nothing.
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