Trouble in Paradise
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Adventures in home buying
I have to tell you all about this one house we looked at last weekend. It had only been on the market a week. We were on the first level and I see a dead bug in the bathroom. Ok no big deal, that happens. So we go upstairs. THERE ARE DEAD BUGS EVERYWHERE. It both rooms and the bathroom. It was SO GROSS. They were all over the place. They were mostly dead flies. I was so digusted. The house had only been on the market a week, can you imagine what it would look like after a month? Also, someone peed in the upstairs toilet and left it. *shudder*
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Re: Adventures in home buying
....Eeeeeew
One dead bug I can see... but... what's killing them?
Jeez. No one living there or what? Couldn't the realtor sweep that crap up before it's shown to potential buyers?
Ewwwwwwww.
Back when XH and I were house-shopping, we found the most adorable house in a really nice older neighborhood. From the outside it looked like the most perfect little storybook cottage. And it was in our price range!
Then we went inside.
Every single surface of that house reeked like cat piss. The stove, the doors, the windows, everything. Ground zero was a downstairs bedroom that had carpet from the 1970s...and stains the likes of which I will never see again. The previous owners had been cat hoarders. Just typing this out, I can remember that stench.
The house sold a few days later (to someone else, obviously). I wonder if they ever regretted that decision. Location only goes so far when a house is a total gut job.
No one was living there but yeah, someone needs to be checking that lol.
Bowies, EWWWWWWWWWWWWW cat pee is worse I think.
You are giving me flashbacks. We went and saw a short sale a couple of months ago that smelled like cat pee. I counted 7 cats while I was there, so you can imagine the smell. Not only that, but they clearly never cleaned. Like ever. So there were piles of hair on the floor, old pizza boxes, etc. They were still living there, and there were piles of junk all over the place. I felt so dirty when we left.
ACK!
I tell you, its surprising how some people are just nasty with regards to how they keep their homes.
When we were looking at houses to buy, we ran into a couple that were DISGUSTING! These people were still living in the home while trying to sell, and didnt even bother cleaning up. How could you have people coming in to see your home, opening closets, getting all in your spaces - and you have dirty clothing, and dishes, and mildew in your bathroom?
Pig people.
/end rant. LOL.
Don't most bugs only live for like a day or two? If bugs are getting in (whether they're fighting their way in for shelter or the house just leaks like a sieve) they have to drop dead somewhere. Usually there's people living in the house that can clean that up or has a pet that'll eat them. In vacant houses, they just lay there.
I bought a piece of property once that had a really old house on it. The plan was to gut it and remodel. The house had wallpaper everywhere. Old stuff from the 40s and it was all loose. I was screwing around and started pulling on some of the loose paper... I ended up pulling the entire wall of paper down in one shot. The whole wall was covered in ladybugs. I schit you not... it was the entire wall and they were all packed in together. There must have been millions of them. Usually, I'm cool with ladybugs but that was beyond creepy.
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Ack! That's like the stinkbugs around here. My MIL gets them really really badly and if you lift up a picture or something on the wall there's a patch of stinkbugs in that shape left behind. I kind of gagged when she showed us.
Her house scares me sometimes.
We looked at a house that had a giant floater in the toilet. No joke. It was a foreclosure, and I think the people who lived there were trying to scare off potential buyers. It was the first thing we saw when we walked in the house, the bathroom door off the side door was open. The house was so filthy, I actually walked out. The realtor stepped in cat barf.
I wish I could unread that. Gross!
You in PA? We get those stupid stink bugs here too. They're not so bad where I live, but H's parents call us constantly with stink bug updates... "we sucked 150 of them out of the bedroom tonight".
Yeah, they suck them up using the vacuum. But they don't empty the vacuum then. They just let them in there, alive. Or they put them in a cup filled with some random stuff (water, dishsoap, 409, some other crap... likely toxic). There are "bug cups" laying everywhere in their house.
We do not go there often. It's disgusting.
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When my H was looking, his most crazy house was the other never leaving smell... cigarette smoke. Only, that one was really bad because the two owners were sitting in their chairs in the living room smoking when they did the walkthrough. They were all, hay, have fun you guys, we hope you like it.