Get Premium
Dark mode theme is available exclusively for premium users. Learn more about the benefits of subscribing.
No fees, cancel anytime.
Dark Mode 
No fees, cancel anytime 
then open in external browser
and click "Open in External Browser" 
10submissions
Finished
Hey Pandas, What’s The Most Unexpected Thing You Discovered About Your Neighborhood Or Property After Moving In?
Whether it's a hidden room, a strange law, a mysterious neighbor, or a weird land boundary — some property surprises are just too wild to make up. Share your stories! 👀🏡
This post may include affiliate links.
#1
My parents bought an old fixer upper farmhouse when i was in middle school. One of the chimneys in the attic had started to fall and while cleaning out the bricks and debris between the wall and the chimney we found what looked to be a brand new no bends or crinkles in the paper, a brochure for horse and buggy paint. other than the paper looking well aged it was in pristine condition there were five primary colors that had obviously been hand painted on the brochure nothing worth anything but a cool look back to another time
Final score:
3points
RELATED:
#2
Moved into my grandparents house after they passed. Found 100s of slides from their travels and the house when they first moved in and it was lake front property. Turns out the biggest diamond ever found in Georgia USA was found behind their house when the lake was drained in the 70s.
Final score:
2points
#3
I live in an impoverished area where our water is undrinkable and our infrastructure is poor yet we are fined if our grass gets too long or our garbage can is showing or out before 6pm. You can’t make this up!
Final score:
1point
The Majestic Opossum 3 months ago
Is there anyone you can contact in local government or a news agency that can make this more wide known so it can be fixed?
#4
We tore up our old deck and kept finding odd things like bottle caps, pieces of metal etc. A couple here or there we could understand, but this was PILES. Our neighbor stopped over to chat (he'd had one of the first houses in the neighborhood) and casually mentioned that our entire neighborhood was backfilled with literal trash from the dump across the street to turn it from wetlands/marsh into buildable land. 🤦🏽♀️ Oh 1970s America at its finest...
Final score:
1point
#5
How destructive and awful people can be. I live in a condo with my balcony looking out to an alley, which is just the back doors of the businesses. Everyday people walk through smashing bottles, pulling garbage out of the bins,p smashing shopping carts into trees or walls and harassing anyone that walks through. It's a nice area and was surprising to me. It's hardly ever homeless people just idiot teenagers causing problems.
Final score:
0points
Benjamin Brogan 3 months ago
I see "houses" individuals leaving their trash in parking lots all the time. When someone (ok, me) calls them out about dumping the trash from their vehicles they lie and say "It was already there"...NO! It was in your car! I literally watched you toss your trash out of your car! The nerve of some ppl
#6
30 some odd years ago, I was helping some friends of mine move into their 1st house. Imagine a picturesque piece of land (12 acres) with a swath of trees (windbreakers) and then a grove of trees that completely hid an entire 2 story house. Cute, cozy, Cheap and a mere 8 miles outside of town. So the 2nd night, I'm exploring their basement (spider patrol) and what's this? A room behind the octopus style furnace? Hm...I yell upstairs, "Hey! Y'all need to see this!" As everyone moseys in I ask, "Did y'all know about this?" My friends' replied "Oh the room behind the furnace? Yeah, we know about it"...it's at this point that they see that I had moved the shelving built into the wall. It was an old Fallout Shelter that had been someone's "party or recreational" room. That someone had left their "party favors" behind along with plenty of alcohol - enough to cater a large banquet event! Complete with 3 blow up dolls who had seen much better days as they were living out their flaccid lives in fallout. 😆
Final score:
0points
#7
I bought a house in Fredericksburg, Texas when I retired from the Navy in 1987. The house was built in 1920 and had been refurbished and rewired by the previous owner. The beautiful milled moldings he removed and replaced with cheapjack were neatly stacked and left to rot in the back yard. All along the fence lines I found components of an old truck. Axles, fenders, all bits and pieces, rusted away. Worst thing was the wiring. Although he used 3 wire nomex, he did not hook up a single ground wire anywhere. I had to go to every switch and outlet box and wire these in
Nonetheless, I liked the house, but If circumstances had not moved me in 2002, I would not be able to afford to live there now I paid $38k in 1987. Sold it in 2002 for $97k, house now taxed at $205k, and Zillow suggests 340k as a sale price. Fortunately when I got back in the area I bought my brother's hand built house and he moved to New Mexico.
Final score:
0points
#8
My house was bombed during the blitz in WWII and rebuilt after using most of the original stone.
Final score:
0points
#9
When we moved into a suburb of Ottawa we were about 100 metres from farmland. The farmer would regularly spread manure and the light odor made us feel like we were in the country. The farmland sold, houses were build and the country feel is no more. We live in Kanata Bridlewood (Ottawa Canada).
Final score:
0points
Related on Bored Panda
