Boston Home Inspectors Are Sharing The Worst Things They’ve Seen On The Job, And Here Are 30 Of The Most Impactful Pics (New Pics)

Would be tempting to sit on it and greet anyone who came to that floor with an enthusiastic "Well hello come join me."

toilets, ancient rome style

As stable as I am :)

the outlets are "SHOCKED"

It's the gold, it's rich

Just buy some cable and fixed permanently before the wind throws it away.

stairway to heaven... or a little light maiming :)

Some of these make me incredibly uncomfortable 😰

I miss those old screensavers.

Like this one! *Is very uncomfortable* 😰😰😰😰

Looks like my downstairs powder room in my house in the Netherlands, minus the bathtub!

The house i bought has two of these 'closets' in the bedrooms and no real places to put clothes TAT

They going through puberty

I don't even know what's going on

Actually, that might be a design feature - the sloping roof allows rain and snow to roll off. If flat, you'd have to have drainage added. So long as it really stable, no issues.

Turntable for a car?

Not far to fall so not the worst

😱 looks like a health hazard

And it has been that way for millenia from the wear pattern on the stairs!

Well, they DID add the fall-stopping finials at the bottom of the bannister. /s

Not the best location, but it is a GFCI outlet.

It's bigger than some studios in London

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SLUG BUG NO SLUG BACK!

Are there two mice trying to come in at the same time? So impatient

Spending that money on composite, would have at least framed it correctly.

The hotter the water, the longer the shower you can take.

See this all the time in uppers for microwaves.

What is this fluffy stuff anyway?

It's clearly screwed. In both senses of the word.

I don't quite get what's wrong in this one. I guess it's pipe's silver color?

ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHhh WHYYYYY *breath* ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHhh *breath* ARGHHHHHHH

Gee, I guess I forgot to change the filter.

so the government 5g rays can't get in

Looks like a little electric owl.

If it works....

Complete with sediment trap, nice to see.

I would not go anywhere near that thing. How disgusting.

* agressive pleasure instrument * is the correct term, i believe

or a sump pump.

i totally read that in Professor Farnsworths voice "Good news everyone"

Cosmetic my donkey! Do NOT sing Jericho, lest the wall come tumbling down.

did someone die because holy mold that could be decomp

Gutters need a damn lawn mow!

The bathtub is shocked at its condition

Fixer upper +++

Should we ignore the hole with the x on it right after Robert's name? Ominous

Somebody chipped the ceramic...eons ago

Couldn't even buy the right size filter? Seriously change the filter at least every two months.

someone took some drastic measures against the voyeur...

If the alternative is carrying huge sacks of whatever, you would be very happy to use this gizmo. I remember there were still a few of these in use in Detroit when I was young. There was an iron (or perhaps steel) plate over it at sidewalk level. Without warning they would pop open and this elevator contraption open up so trucks could unload and go directly into the basement without having to go up and down the stairs.

Who's the idiot who painted over the bells?

Just an optical illusion?

You think the code enforcement inspector will even notice? Nah we're good. Time for a beer.

Mr Motivator

Compression shower drain, easy fix.

Termites!!

This is an old-school telephone demarcation point in some sort of commercial building and they pretty much always look like rat’s nests. Believe it or not, this is actually pretty clean for an install this size and age.

Perhaps a very old home. Wiring of the houses that were originally lit by gas jets often were wired through the baseboards to avoid doing a lot of damage to plaster walls. I commented on a post earlier about living in a period home for a time, the walls were FULL of iron pipes that were originally gas jets for lighting. The wiring was added many years later and the outlets were in the (10") baseboards. The woodwork was all very dark and of course the outlets were brown. It really made for a treasure hunt to find the outlets when one was needed.