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Personal residence (maybe not that strange, I guess):
Tighty whities (two pair) in the kitchen lazy susan. Closed on the condo, started cleaning the kitchen cabinets inside and out and there they were. More gross than strange b/c I'm not sure who uses intact (meaning not cut up in to "rag" form) old/stained underwear as a cleaning tool.
Investment properties (that we flipped, back when flipping was good):
What wasn't left? From used condoms in drawers, to a chest freezer full of off the grid porn mags & VHS tapes, to un-cashed assistance checks that were two years old. Dead cat in a cabinet over where the washer/dryer was in the basement, personal photo albums (why not take them?), bank statements, SS cards, children's clothing with tags still on (stolen?). A fake eye.
One woman left a very large bedroom filled with boxes and boxes and boxes of books - and stacked 2-3 boxes high. From paperback romance to hardcover fiction to college text books.
That's inside the house.
The worst we found outside of a house was at a property in a very "prestigious" town, was a weird pile of bones in the majorly over-grown 2 acre back yard (where seller tossed old clothing, broken plates, coffee cups, books, magazines, the remains of old above ground pools, appliances...and a lot more.) All of that was scattered, but the pile of bones were not. Looked like cat, dog, fox, groundhog...small skulls with sharp teeth. We didn't find it, our landscaper did, and since he was born in Jamaica he believed that "bad stuff" would happen to anyone who touched it, he refused to touch it. He was more than sure that bad juju would come to anyone who messed with the pile of animal bones. So we let him go and hired another landscaper without voodoo hang ups.
we found sex toys, beer cans and a sleeping bag in the attic of our last house. Kinda odd considering it was arizona and the attic space was dirty and hot. I guess that's how they liked it, lol.
A ton of JUNK at this house where we live now. Never seen anything like it in any sale I've been a part of. Unbelievably filthy with crap everywhere. Took my husband 3 days to clean the fridge. <shudder>
Oh dirty cat litter boxes on the front lanai. Nice, huh? These people had inherited the home from his father who built it. Could not believe how they trashed it. That was 11 years ago and it still pi**sses me off!!
Our first place was a coop apartment in Westchester, New York. There were two in-wall air conditioners and I had read somewhere that it was a good idea to remove the filters and wash them or replace them. When I opened the one in the living room, I found a very expensive tape recorder (this was 1984) with an attached microphone and it was set to record when it detected sound. I don't know if the seller forgot it and left it or the creepy building super planted it there to learn more about the new residents. I figured it was the super and I have to admit I had a guilty pleasure at the thought of him sneaking in and finding that his expensive snooping device was gone. It's not like he could ask if we had his tape recorder!
One time, we found personal items, including photo albums, stored high in a back closet. We contacted the prior owner. When he came to the house to retrieved them, he tearfully explained that the albums contained photos of his daughter who had puchased and lived in the house with both parents. The daughter had drowned a few months before they sold, and the mother could never set foot in the house again. Hence, flawed packing and the left behind personal items.
To this day, we feel good about making sure those photos were returned to the family.
Wow~I've got nothing! The strangest we've found is pencil sharpeners mounted inside all the closets. I mean really, was there a pencil crisis in the 60's??
In a house we rented for a year a couple of years ago when my husband was on an extended out-of-town project, there was a little storage shed in the backyard, supposedly for a lawn mower, rakes, etc. There was a box in the shed that contained an old marching band uniform, a plastic container with some barbershop tools (electric shears, etc.) and a stack of love letters addressed to someone in a prison several states away. The letters were about 10 years old, so no telling how long they had been there.
In one rental house when we were first married 30-odd years ago, the house had odd scraps for rugs here (definitely bought with an eye towards cost, not any decorating style!) and a Spanish-style red tile kitchen floor with black grout. At least, I thought it was black grout -- until one day, I was wiping up a spill and looked closely and discovered that the grout was actually white . . . ugh. Spent an entire afternoon scrubbing that mess with ammonia and a toothbrush!
When I moved into my house 17 years ago I was in such a hurry! I didn't use a moving company (couldn't afford it!) and couldn't take any time off from work. Consequently, boxes were all over the place and I couldn't find anything.
Monday morning I had to go to work and could not find any of my shoes! I don't know what made me do it, but I went up to the attic, and there on the landing was a pair of ladies shoes, in my size!
It was kind of creepy though, wearing a stranger's shoes...............
When I moved into my house 17 years ago I was in such a hurry! I didn't use a moving company (couldn't afford it!) and couldn't take any time off from work. Consequently, boxes were all over the place and I couldn't find anything.
Monday morning I had to go to work and could not find any of my shoes! I don't know what made me do it, but I went up to the attic, and there on the landing was a pair of ladies shoes, in my size!
It was kind of creepy though, wearing a stranger's shoes...............
Yes, the whole story is sort of creepy. I agree
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