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We have been on home hunting missions several times through the years and I thought I had seen it all. However, I was wrong. We recently toured a home that was a prominent Doctor who lost it to foreclosure. It was shocking how not nice it was. They had homemade bidets made out of kitchen faucet sprayers in the all of the bathrooms. Really? You couldn't afford to install real ones? Would love to hear others that have seen funny/weird things while house hunting.
looks like that bidet hose could double as a hair shampoo sprayer.
What turns me off the most when house hunting is clutter clutter clutter, toilet and bath tub rings/grime, pet hair everywhere in clumps, and Bad odors, ugh!
I once went into clean an income rental property nice townhouse in reasonable community where. My section8 tenant had just moved out, KFC chicken Bones in the bedroom, OMG! Guessing Fido left the there!
i am searching for a rental in nepa and i wissh i could get some pictures of some of the 900/mo apts/homes here---holes in walls,broken or permanently locked windows,,,,mice havens--i could go on(ever led through a home by a realtor dodging running mice every few feet?)and having realtor annoyed cause you wasted his time cause you said no way to this rental????
- a beautiful house with a large rat swimming in the pool (no problem b/c my client was a pest control business owner)
- dirty underwear on the floor (really)
- ceiling fans hung in the middle of the ceiling, but no hard wires, so electrical cords were fastened to the wall in a tube...and painted the same color as the wall & ceiling, and cut through the crown molding and chair rail to keep the tube flush with the wall (this is the house I bought)
- vacant houses that had been broken into and left open so there was racoon poop all over the floor
- one house in such bas condition that I really expected to see a dirt floor in one of the rooms (but I was sorely disappointed)
- a foreclosure that had the glass door to the shower removed. As if you could use a custom fit door somewhere else.
Forgot to mention that the racoon poop was my house too. I only know what it was b/c the neighbor shooed out the racoons and locked up the house.
-... ceiling fans hung in the middle of the ceiling, but no hard wires, so electrical cords were fastened to the wall in a tube...and painted the same color as the wall & ceiling, and cut through the crown molding and chair rail to keep the tube flush with the wall (this is the house I bought)...
Yours actually had the cord hidden in a tube ? I've seen many that just hang the cord along the ceiling with hooks and then dangle down to the wall outlet.
Yours actually had the cord hidden in a tube ? I've seen many that just hang the cord along the ceiling with hooks and then dangle down to the wall outlet.
Oh yes. The walls were painted dark red, the tube to match. Except where the white chair rail was, the tube painted white. And of course white on the ceiling.
We just started looking recently to get an idea of the market and for learning purposes. We thought we would check out one that was listed as a "handyman's special". Oh boy was it ever. This little townhouse was a piece of work. It was built in 1890, and seriously had not been renovated since. Oldest tubs I've ever seen, no insulation, cracks in the walls, small overgrown backyard. And no heat. The house had never had heat before. The whole place would have to be rewired and ripped apart. The ceilings had obvious water damage. The floors were creaking and on the stairs you held on for life. And the best? It was listed for $699k. Yup, only in NY. The movie Money Pit came to mind while walking around. My husband just laughed as we explored the place, probably 1600 sq feet all together.
We looked at a home once in PA that was a foreclosure. My dh was in the basement and I was in the hallway. Suddenly I screamed ; I was covered head to toe in Fleas ; Yes, Fleas.
We left and dove straight into the pool at our community fully clothed.
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We recently toured a home that was a prominent Doctor who lost it to foreclosure. It was shocking how not nice it was. They had homemade bidets made out of kitchen faucet sprayers in the all of the bathrooms. 
Really? You couldn't afford to install real ones? Would love to hear others that have seen funny/weird things while house hunting. 
? I've seen many that just hang the cord along the ceiling with hooks and then dangle down to the wall outlet.
