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Imagine the beginning of a classic horror movie - a young (or not so young) couple arrives to look at an old house and, completely oblivious to the disturbing music playing in the background, signs all the papers. And then the actual plot begins...
Okay, and what if the customers didn’t like something and refused to buy it? You will say that then the whole movie wouldn’t have existed, and you’ll be right. But, according to real estate agents from this viral online thread, there have been many stories when a deal to buy a house fell through at the very last moment due to some petty whim of the buyers.
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#1
How about our bizarre reason for buying a house? We were looking in the Bay Area and our five-year old son fell in love with one house because the people selling it had two little boys about his age. Our son thought it meant he would get two brothers. The people were so charmed by his misunderstanding that they decided we would make good owners. Their children actually left our son their outgrown toys to have something to remember them by. In the hot competitive housing market at the time, it really worked out well.
SM 1 year ago (edited)
Nice story, now can someone tell me why board panda picked it for "refused to buy" thread? They do this every time! And then later change the title so to cover up their mistake (or remove it as they edit down the number of posts).
Saphyre Fyre 1 year ago
Yes, the title suggests these are reasons for not buying a house, and this story is opposite.
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Leigh 1 year ago
My sister and her husband made an offer on a house. The owner had gotten a higher offer from someone else who just wanted to fix it up and flip it. The owner thought it was a perfect place to raise a kid and decide he wanted to see a family enjoy the house. Despite the lower offer my family got the house and they love it!
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#2
Spent around two months looking for a property with a couple. They barely qualified for what they were looking for, so each offer was a battle just to get it reviewed.
Finally found a house that had a willing seller, good listing agent, and it checked all but one box. That box?
The guest bathroom had a shower curtain the wife didn't like.
Seriously. Not a glass door or anything permanent but a removable curtain held up by those bars you twist into place. I even offered to buy them a $200 gift card for Home Depot or Bed Bath and Beyond to help them find something different. Nope. That curtain [ended] the whole thing for the wife.
Needless to say, I fired them as clients immediately after that.
LH25 1 year ago
I wonder if they really wanted to buy a house or if looking was a hobby for them.
Just Another Girl 1 year ago
I looked at houses for seven years as a hobby while I saved my only. I just went to open house. I didn’t bother a RE agent.
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Sand Ers 1 year ago
I've only ever had to fire one client. She had a habit of making decisions, and then not liking the result even though I'd explained what each option would produce. And expecting special treatment for no particular reason. Implying that I was padding my hours was the final straw. I told her to mail me a check for whatever she thought I'd done, and then lose my number.
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* * * Being_Cori * * * 1 year ago
how do these people survive in this world ?! how were they bought up ? wrapped in cotton wool ?
SheamusFanFrom1987 1 year ago
Suffice to say, guess OP was relieved when it was curtains on that saga...
Erik Meyenberg 1 year ago
A house is work. If you are not willing to do anything on your house, you are not fit to have one.
Mary Ann Burgess 1 year ago
This so reminds me of my Mom. My hubby and me were looking at a house years ago, and there were silk flowers, leaves and vines on the space above the kitchen cabinets. Not a lot of them. They weren't ugly, and could be taken down. My Mom said she would never buy that house just because of the floral stuff. "Well Mom, you're NOT the one buying a house, are you?"
#3
I knew someone who didn't buy a house because it had too many closets. Other than that, they thought the house was perfect.
After a moment of stunned silence I suggested they buy the house and close some closet doors and just not use the closet(s).
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
Well, you can... But I'd have to see pics of the house in question to know if that was legitimately a problem. For example, I don't like the photo above because it's very visually noisy. There is no "quiet" space anyway in that pic. I'd like to have at least one blank wall where I can hang some art (or even just leave empty).
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The Other Guest 1 year ago
And here I am, dreaming of a house with more storage space. Ours only has two *very* small closets, one in each bedroom - no linen closet, no coat closet, not even a pantry.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
I know people with too many closets. But it has nothing to do with their house.
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Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
no such thing as too many closets... you can always use more storage, or adapt them for non-closet uses (like reading nooks, etc)
LynzCatastrophe 1 year ago
That'd a complaint?! I live in a small house, only two small closets! I'd love this! If you don't like them, renovate!
In this list, collected for you by Bored Panda, there are stories for literally every taste - from completely crazy situations when buyers left the deal for a reason that looked incredibly petty in the eyes of the realtor, to fierce disputes between spouses, where both sides flung arguments, and only at the last moment the deal fell through. It’s likely that if Netflix decided to make a series about the everyday life of real estate agents, it would be an undeniable hit.
#4
Former Realtor here. Had a couple that wanted to live in a specific neighborhood and wanted a rectangular pool with a small pool house and covered patio. There were exactly 3 houses in the neighborhood that met these requirements. I spoke with all 3 owners and one said they would sell and they were generous on their pricing.
Why, you ask, did the couple decide not to buy? The house next door was yellow.
* * * Being_Cori * * * 1 year ago
did you tell them that the world does not .. I repeat.. DOES NOT REVOLVE AROUND THEM
Jaya 1 year ago
They were actually taking steps to not act like the world revolves around them: instead of buying the house and then moaning about the neighbour's taste, they took responsibility for their own taste and decided to just not buy a house in that street.
Load More Replies... Sergio Bicerra 1 year ago
Sounds like there was no HOA in that community, that would be a plus for me
Another Panda 1 year ago
Interestingly, the color yellow is a migraine trigger for many. Not saying this was the case, but bright colors / highly reflective or flashing surfaces nearby definitely would be a consideration for some.
My O My 1 year ago
Migraine sufferer here. Constantly renovating and I have to choose tile patterns ect wisely due to migraine triggering! If I got a headache from looking out of the window I'd go crazy
Load More Replies... Ariom Dahl 1 year ago
Um, did I get this right -- the house NEXT DOOR was yellow? Not the one they wanted, but its neighbour. Picky, picky, picky!
Mike F 1 year ago
Personally, I'm not big on yellow myself but looking at the pic above, I'd live there!
Ginger Grumpybunny 1 year ago
It's just a stock photo which might or might not resemble the actual house.
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SkippityBoppityBoo 1 year ago
Buy the yellow house if it was available... Once you're inside it? You don't have to look at it! 👍👍👍
Dash Junior 1 year ago
My first thought after I saw the photo of the house was, That’s a nice color.
Sydney B. 1 year ago
Of the 3 home owners only one was willing to sell, and -that- was the one next to the yellow house.
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Sort of related. My wife and I looked at buying a house and the owners said that the 12 chickens in the garden coop came with the property. I laughed and said fine - we'll just eat roast chicken for the first 12 weeks we live here.
They refused to sell the house to us.
Karen Krause 1 year ago
I guess the owners couldn't take their chickens but didn't want to have anyone eat their pets.
Papa 1 year ago
. . . and expected the new owners to feed and care for them until they die of old age.
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Frank Russell 1 year ago
Would make more sense to continue caring for them and have lots of eggs.
Ariom Dahl 1 year ago
I shouldn't have laughed at this, but I did! I would have kept the chooks for their eggs.
Lew k 1 year ago
Who leaves their chickens when they move? If you’re moving and can’t take them it’s super easy to find people to adopt back yard chickens. Especially if they’re grown and still laying. Chicks are cheep but feed to get them grown isn’t. Full grown laying hens are worth 100$ or more each. If you’re giving them away they’ll go quick.
JayWantsACat 1 year ago
I don't know if it's true or not but there's a Youtube channel where I guy bought a house but the previous either left them or required the new owners to take them. But the guy has like a dozen guinea pigs that he's taking care of.
#6
I didn’t buy a house once because the realtor was a dips**t. The house was perfect except for one thing. In the kitchen there was a crack in the middle of the granite. When my wife pointed it out, the realtor told us “it raises the value of the home because that’s unique and considered art. No other home will have that crack” and he did NOT say it in a joking manner. For that dumba*s statement, we left and didn’t buy the home.
Hey! 1 year ago
We dump one of our realtors because he was opening personal stuff, like their wardrobes, and secretaries. Things that weren't included in the house.
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Carl Oxley III 1 year ago
Reminds me of my wife and I test driving a BRAND NEW car in 2022, We heard a weird noise during the test drive and, I kid you not, the dealer said "you can always turn up the radio." We did not purchase that car.
OpheliaPoe 1 year ago
We rented our house for 12 years before we bought it. It was a great situation where we had an amazing landlord who never raised our rent and let us do as we pleased, she was happy to sell at a good price. And icing on the cake, we didn't have to move! She hired a realtor just to handle the legal aspects and the realtor was trying to sell us on the house by boasting about the quality of our well. 1. She knew nothing about our well. 2. We lived there, we knew more about the house than anyone at that point 😆
Michael Walker 1 year ago
Buyer looking for an excuse not to buy or what? It was perfect you say?
Betty Swallocks 1 year ago
Chpos to them for suggesting it with a straight face but with so many of us living in identikit boxes I personally love those quirks in a house.
“In fact, there’s another fairly logical reason why the deal could fall through,” says Yulia Shurinova, a real estate agent from Odessa, Ukraine, with whom Bored Panda got in touch for a comment here. “It is quite possible that the buyer has already chosen another property and came to look at this house simply, as they say, ‘to clear their conscience.’ And at the same time they don’t want to upset the seller and agent with a direct refusal.”
“At least in my practice and the practice of my colleagues, there were many similar cases - and we learned about the true motives of the buyers in retrospect, when the deal to purchase another property had already been signed. And sometimes the buyers themselves admitted this later. Somehow no matter what, I believe that some of the stories told here also have precisely this background,” Yulia ponders.
#7
When we were house hunting my husband and I found a listing for a duplex unit at 69B Jay St. Unfortunately it wasn't the right fit for us, but I hope whoever picked it up is making the most of their raunchy new address.
Betty Swallocks 1 year ago
I used to do home visits to measure for flooring. A pair of new twin cottages had been built on a former single house plot. The new units were renumbered 2A & 2B. I visited the latter. I suggested as a joke that the owners should name the property Shakespeare Cottage - 2B ...... or Not 2B ? When I returned months later to measure up 2A, I noticed the first couple had run with my idea and had signage printed with the "2B" quote in brackets underneath ! 😂
Blue Bunny of Happiness 1 year ago
Bought a house years ago that was number 69. Dad cracked up when he heard whilst Mum looked bemused. I didn’t want to think about why!
Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago
ROFL ngl I would seriously considering living there just cuz of the hilarious address 😂
#8
Not a realtor, but used to work for one. Had a client who was ready to close on a house, then backed out at the last minute because the neighborhood DID NOT have an HOA. I was stunned. My family was driven from the first house I grew up in by a psychotic HOA president who happened to be our next door neighbor. Harpies from hell, all of them, except maintenance-only ones, but pretty much all of those exist because someone got out of control.
Paul Brown 1 year ago
Even if you knocked off half the asking price I would never move into a neighborhood with a HOA.
Lew k 1 year ago
It took us months to find our current home because everything new built in our area is hoa and older non hoa homes are more rare. I’m not spending hundreds of thousands of dollars so some nosey Nancy can tell me what trees I can’t plant or what color we can paint the house. We have always done fruit forest back yards and kept chickens. Hoa is not an option. Our house and yards are well kept but not hoa standards.
Casey 1 year ago
Do HOAs exist outside of the US? I am Canadian and as far as I am aware, we don't have them.
Chihuahua Mama 1 year ago
I live in Canada too and was wondering the same thing. I've never heard of them in the two provinces I've lived in
Load More Replies... Ken Beattie 1 year ago
We aren't as big on HOAs here, though there are some places with building covenants (you can't build a certain type of house, it must be in keeping with the neighbourhood) and body corporates in apartments and private community type places. I'd assume the people in question wanted a HOA because they want some assurance that the community meets some sort of standard. I could see certain rules as being acceptable. eg: no junker cars rotting away on the front lawn or no excessive noise after a certain time during the work week. The only problem is the slippery slide from reasonable rules to crazy ones.
Ginger Grumpybunny 1 year ago
Why should a stationary vehicle on someone else's property even bother you?
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Jeevesssssss 1 year ago
I don't think they exist in the UK... I think the closest we come is Neighbourhood Watch schemes, where someone can get caught up in a power trip in a hi-viz jacket and get overly-officious about noise levels past a certain time, or niggly about parking. From what I've read on here they scream RED FLAG.
Roland Nijveld 1 year ago
Probably in flats where its mainly for the maintenance of the elevators, staircase and other public spaces
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JLo 1 year ago
Had a rental property in a small townhouse development with an HOA. The units were found to have structural damage because the plumber cut through floor studs to run the pipes. After about 20 years, there was a noticeable bump in the floors. The inspector ruled that no one could buy/sell/rent the units until the work was done. No problem, right? Just a few months, but the little dictators on the HOA board dragged their feet on getting the work done for an entire year. We had to sue them to get it done. (We were not allowed to fix just our unit.) We won. The money paid off the lawyer and that was it. Husband tried to get on the HOA board, but the harpies closed rank and got their cohorts not to vote for him. Never, ever buy a property with an HOA without doing a lot of investigating. If there is something majorly wrong with your development, you will be assessed to pay for it, if there isn't enough in the HOA bank account.
Brent Echols 1 year ago
And they often can place a line on your house for fines or assessments
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I had one experience while we were looking for a house where we were the ones that came across as weird for our reasoning to not buy it.
We had found a really nice house and everything about it seemed great. I had one concern about a tree that was planted extremely close to the house and I wanted to look into it because you don't want foundation problems. Not all trees have roots that will damage a foundation if they're planted close though, so I found out what kind of tree it was to see if it would be a problem. In the process of learning about the tree, I found out that it was a Yew tree, and that the pollen of male Yew trees are chemotoxic. Meaning it is toxic to cancer cells. However, it has this effect by functioning in your body as if you were taking low levels of chemo basically. So people end up with low grade symptoms of chemotherapy from exposure to the pollen of this tree, and most of the time have no idea why they feel sick. So we told the real estate agent that we were interested in the house, but needed to know one thing: is the tree in front of the house (right up against the large window) male for female? She asked the owners, and they said they didn't know, but I imagine they thought that was a weird question, lol. Since they couldn't tell us, we decided not to buy the house.
* * * Being_Cori * * * 1 year ago
I learnt something new, this is very interesting as cutting down a tree that is close to the house can have adverse effects on the structure.
Papa 1 year ago
I believe you misunderstood. HAVING a tree close to the house can be a problem because the roots can cause damage to the foundation, not CUTTING a tree close to the house.
Load More Replies... Karen Krause 1 year ago
I didn't know that. I know it's called Tree of the Dead and it's in many old English church graveyards.
Andrew Keir 1 year ago
They were grown to make long-bows with, as well, I believe
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Panda On My Balcony 1 year ago
Why wouldn't you just go and check whether it was male or female for yourself?
GB 1 year ago (edited)
I believe that in order to make that assessment, the tree would have to be in its blooming or fruiting season.
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neytjie 1 year ago
Ahh yes because trees are permanent fixtures and totally can't be removed if they are dangerous to your health.
Kate 1 year ago
Ever tried it? Because I have. It's expensive, and HOPEFULLY it goes fine, but there's always the possibility that you'll have to repair the roof, replace windows, and/or do a lot of yard repairs afterwards.
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Nikki Bastian 1 year ago
I love soaking up up nuggets of knowledge from fellow Pandas. I never knew male yew trees were chemotoxic, that's fascinating! I'm definitely remembering this for my next TIL!
Madam Puddyfoot 1 year ago
I would love to know where OP got that information about the pollen. My understanding is that only by ingestion of parts of the yew is it toxic. It is the bark that is used in chemotherapeutic drugs. If ever you are wondering about the truth of a claim that affects health, go to google scholar for an enormous body of academic and scientific books, abstracts, and medical articles that are peer reviewed. I just did a search and could find nothing about yew pollen being toxic. It tends to be the needles and berries. I have seen cases of large animals (horses) dying from eating yew.
Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
Daughter and SIL were hunting and loved a house. Sent me a pic including the back yard with a catenary (high voltage) tower 100 yds or so behind it. I urged them to pass. Nephew works for a utility company and told me that was the right call. Even though "nothing has ever been proven".
On the other hand, buying a house is, in any case, a situation that causes stress, because you are making a purchase for a long time, if not forever. And it’s not surprising that a person wants to avoid possible negative factors such as poor infrastructure or entitled neighbors. After all, they have to live there. So, when a choice of this degree of importance is made, hesitation and vagaries are almost inevitable. Well, or the new residents become entitled neighbors themselves... This option also cannot be discarded.
#10
Not a Realtor but potential buyer, our realtor brought us to a house listed as a 3BR, 2-1/2 Bath.
After going through the house, we liked it a lot, until something clicked for us - there were no bathrooms to be found. We went through the house again, and upon opening a closet door in a Bedroom, we found inside the tiny closet a single Toilet. No lights, sink, tub, nothing. The house wasn't even a 1 Bath, it was like 1/4 bath.
The realtor, very seriously, told us if we knocked down the wall, ran some pipes, we could convert one of the bedrooms into the bathroom. We laughed thinking he was joking. He wasn't.
SnackbarKaat 1 year ago
I bought an old house, in the era were toilets were in a shed outdoor and bathing was done in a wooden barrel. I'm talking about the fifties here rural area. Anyway as modern times came by they installed a shower in the hallway between two stairs. Toilet was still I the sehd outdoor. We used a small bedroom and turned it into a modern bathroom. We needed to redo the pipes and electricity anyways
Karen Krause 1 year ago
I've seen older houses where they've made a small bedroom or den into a bathroom/toilet or added an addition. I'm just surprised that today in America there are houses without a bathroom/toilet. I still miss the old apartment we had overseas that had a bath and 1/2. That came in handy.
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Nikki Sevven 1 year ago
This was false advertising. A full bath must have toilet, sink, and full tub. A ¾ bath has toilet, sink, and shower stall. A half bath has toilet and sink. So a room with nothing except a toilet doesn't qualify as a bath at all.
Stormblessed 1 year ago
When I visited my grandparent's dacha, the house was old. Really old, that it didn't have a bathroom. We had to go up the backyard to a shed with the smallest hole in it to pee in. No lock. No toilet paper either. It didn't bother anyone else, because they were all boys. I was one of like 5 girls who had ever gone there. It bothered me a lot until they FINALLY got a nie bathroom installed.
#11
Found a dead body in the bathroom.
Apparently a contractor working in the house decided to shoot up before he left on Friday and OD'd. Nobody was in the house all weekend and he was found by Monday afternoon during a showing.
Donkey boi 1 year ago
Wouldn't be hard to clean up. And I'm sure you'd be able to talk down the price after that.
RabidChild 1 year ago
I have to agree. It was in the tub after all but I would absolutely have a hard time soaking until someone came through with some sage at least.
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Connie Hirsch 1 year ago
Well.. given the possible trauma of finding a dead body, I wouldn't WANT to have a bathroom where every time I go in (and especially take a bath) I am reminded of the moment.
BarkingSquirell 1 year ago
Can't say I blame them. Even two days of body decomposition is a smell that cannot be gotten rid of. Plus, who would want to take a bath?
der sebbl 1 year ago
If the climate wasn't very hot and moist there won't be going in that much decomposition. Definitely no terrible smell.
Load More Replies... SkippityBoppityBoo 1 year ago
I found out a number of years after moving into my flat that someone had died in it. It didn't bother me, I was more concerned that he didn't go out in pain. There's been weird creaks and stuff but it's because it's a 100yr plus old building. I was told there was a ghost but I named him Eric and if he was loud when it was nighttime? I'd just say, "Shhh Eric, now is sleepy time so... Shurrup!" 😄
#12
Not a realtor, but I worked in finance at an RV dealership a few years back. I had a couple fly in from out of state to look at a brand new $400,000 unit that had specific features they were after and they put a deposit on it.
I got them approved and scheduled a time for them to sign, but they backed out at the last minute because they weren’t sure their cat would like it. They flew back home.
Tucker Cahooter 1 year ago
Next time they will have the foresight to bring their cat with them for confirmation
Andrew Keir 1 year ago
Ministers round here won't allow a cat to take Confirmation - apparently it wasn't baptised, or something
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Tiny Dancer 1 year ago
I don't see a problem with this. The cat rules, everyone knows that, sheesh.
Shelley Dawson 1 year ago
The only valid reason to buy or not to buy a house! I honestly have only bought houses that are suitable for the safety and happiness of my cats.
Either way, even if you've never bought a home, we highly recommend reading all the stories on this list. At least for two main reasons. First, the vast majority of these tales are really amusing. Second is that perhaps when (or if) you buy a house yourself, you will probably remember one of the stories you read today and in time refuse the dubious purchase. And then the alarming music behind the scenes will end in confusion - who actually knows?
#13
The reason I didn't buy one house was my realtor was running late, so I was parked in my car near the house I was going to look at on the side of the road fir about half an hour. About 2, maybe 3 blocks away in a rural area of Washougal, Washington. About that time this a*****e pulls out of the driveway of the house I'm scheduled to see, pulls up along side my car, rolls down the window, takes a picture of me with their phone, then flips me off before they peel out the tires and drive off at high speed. Turns out it was the homeowner that was trying to sell. So yeah, I didn't even bother with seeing the inside of what was an otherwise good prospect because I was so irritated at the owner. My realtor later gave their listing agent a call about it because they were annoyed about missing out on a potentially large commission, and I later found out the owner thought I was "[an addict] trying to steal wifi from him" . Not sure why, as I was in a pretty nice car wearing a suit that day... but yeah, I did not buy that house.
Betty Swallocks 1 year ago (edited)
Again, in my former role as a flooring estimator I was sat outside a house waiting for the owner to return from work. I was doing some paperwork on a clipboard to kill time. The neighbour had twitched the curtains a few times probably wondering who's car was this. Next thing I know, there's an angry dude in a dressing gown shouting about council agents hounding him because of his genuine illness and inabilty to work etc. I seriously had to calm him downnand show him my paperwork, tape measure etc. His neighbour finally arrived home and confirmed my story.
Costco card 1 year ago (edited)
I live near there... Sounds about right for washougal (EDIT: spelling)
Heather Menard 1 year ago
It was probably a nice neighborhood and a stranger sitting in their car for that long range some bells.
#14
Not me but my dad did some residential and commercial back in the 70. Lady came in and loved the house until they got to a guest bedroom that was painted yellow. She instantly switched and said " I can't buy this house because this is yellow."
My dad says "We'll paint it. Any color you want." Her response drove him to do strictly commercial after that. "But I'll know it was yellow once."
A. Starhawk Hunt 1 year ago
Yeah…. I dislike yellow as it often hurts my light sensitive eyes, but a good thick coat of paint? Fine.
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Karen Krause 1 year ago
What is this with people not buying because of something that can be changed easily?
Sky Render 1 year ago
I swear it's some weird extension of entitlement. It honestly feels like there's an undiagnosed mental illness going on at times with how absurd it can get...
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DeoManus Argentem 1 year ago
Hah! I had a similar encounter with a lady that came to pick up her reserved rental car when I was working at a small local office JUST as we were closing. It was our last car, and I just wanted to go home, but she objected to the miles on the odometer (I forget the number, but it was pretty low, that wasn't the issue, so let's say it was "XXX" - but it had some significance to her). I offered to just drive it around the block a few times so it would change. But she said she'd know it had been that number at some point! Ugh, had to wait with her for over an hour until an airport location (open 24 hours) could deliver a different car (with way more miles than XXX, so had obviously been there at some point). She was happy, and not even upset for the wait, like most would be, but didn't even give me a "thank you" for accomdating her! (I got paid the overtime hour (150% of like $9, whoop, whoop!) or so, but I just wanted to go home.)
#15
I’m not a realtor but one of my childhood friend’s mothers was and she told me this story when I was in 4th grade and I still think about it nearly 20 years later.
She came home upset one day after school and we asked her what’s wrong. She said she just lost a sale because of a toilet seat. During the initial walk through her client pointed out an epoxy toilet seat that was filled with sea shells and how much she loved it. She made an offer on the house. Later they do the final walk through right before going to go sign the closing documents and that toilet seat is gone and replaced with a normal white one. The woman is pissed and refuses to close without the toilet seat. The sellers refuse to give her the toilet seat. The sale falls through.
Can you imagine buying a whole a*s house because you want an epoxy toilet seat?
This was the 90s so there wasn’t the whole internet of things at our finger tips to just up and get a replacement. But still.
Trillian 1 year ago
These toilet seats were available at every DIY store back then (and still are)
JL 1 year ago
The first thing I'd do with a new house, change the locks and change the toilet seats.
Viktor 1 year ago
This! And then clean every door handle and hand rail. Nobody ever cleans those!
Load More Replies... Karen Krause 1 year ago
I can't imagine someone passing on a sale because they won't give up their toilet seat. I remember them. They also had them with coins and other odd bits in them. You could find them at K-Mart and other stores like them.
Papa 1 year ago
I can't imagine either one of the parties backing out of the deal over a toilet seat.
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ILoveMySon 1 year ago
As a former Realtor, I know from personal experience that fixtures should be itemized outside of what is standard in a contract. Sad but true. The sellers for the buyers I represented literally took everything not nailed down. Thankfully, the buyers' attorney reviewed the contract so I wasn't liable. I was young and learned a valuable lesson.
Imagineer 1 year ago
That's like people who tour an empty house, come to the dining room, and the idiot man says, well this chandelier is too low, I'd hit my head. It's amazing how many times the realtor does NOT point out that a table will go there. Amazing the idiot doesn't realize a table goes there.
ANTIVICTORIA 1 year ago
There wasn't even internet until '96 and laptops and smartphones were a distant dream.
A. Starhawk Hunt 1 year ago
Not at all hard to find. Asinine, but that is unkind to the a*s. By that, I do mean the equine one.
#16
There was a house we looked at that met most of our criteria, but when we went back outside, we noticed that the next-door neighbor has all these signs on this porch posts: KEEP OUT; NOT TRESPASSING; BEWARE OF DOG, etc., and piles of junk furniture and machinery on the porch.
Not who ***I*** want to live next door to.
Sonja 1 year ago
This is the main reason why the first HIAs were founded. One such neighbour can destroy a whole neighborhood. They're insufferable to live next to, so eventually people around them move out. But new owners either see the mess and don't buy, or they're just as bad as that one rotten egg, until everyone living in that street is like that. But of course if you give people power to make rules like a HOA does, such organisations tend to radicalise, and then you have the same issue you tried to avoid: insufferable neighbours and your house becomes hard to sell because of the overbearing HOA
John Mosley 1 year ago
Same type of experience, lovely house and property but the place next door was overgrown with about 25 visible orange signs that were every variety of Keep Out. Also had a ton of old machinery and falling down pole barns. The place we were looking at was so nice we toured several times but just couldn't do it with the Texas Chainsaw Neighbor.
Victoria D 1 year ago
Be sure to Google Earth to look at surrounding area - not just the immediate neighborhood. I found one house that was totally perfect - but was within a half mile of a big Federal prison. No thanks.
Brent Echols 1 year ago (edited)
Good point. I always check on Google Earth first. Can't tell everything (noise for example), but can eliminate some as in that case.
Load More Replies... digitalin 1 year ago
We tried to look at a two-family house but couldn't actually see it because the tenant of the second unit was keeping realtors out. That instantly made it a "no" -- even if the law was on the owner's side, it was NOT a headache we wanted. We previously had bought a (single) duplex unit, and the owners of the other unit were so bad that we had to move. Not going to make that mistake again.
#17
not a realtor, but when I was trying to sell my condo, someone found out I had cats and didn’t want to buy for that reason alone. There was no carpet. They had no allergies. They just didn’t like cats. The cats were coming with me when I moved and they didn’t open up a portal to hell in the living room floor or anything.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
Wonder whether the place subtly smelled bad. Most pet owners don't notice the smell because they're used to it. But it might be just enough that the non-cat people picked up on it and were worried it would stick around.
Pandapoo 1 year ago
We looked at a house where several cats resided in the downstairs area. Wood steps. The stench was so awful, it was a big no.
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MSNY22 1 year ago
My family is all VERY allergic to cats. It wouldn’t matter how well we cleaned the place, if cats ever lived there, we would not be able to be inside for any extended period of time-or really any short period of time. Also, just like my house smells of dog (because I have dogs) that I don’t smell anymore, I have never been in a house with cats that didn’t smell like cats lived there.
#18
My family home was bought by a young man in the military and his very quirky wife. They had already ruled out dozens of houses and settled on ours because it had adequate chi flow from the front door.
When they saw that the bed was directly under a window in the bedroom, the wife freaked out and said that it was sucking out our brains.
Tiny Dancer 1 year ago
I don't know enough about the whole chi thing, but if that's a parking lot behind the headboard, I would be OUT of there! That just looks creepy to me. Can you imagine sleeping there in the nighttime? *shudder*
#19
Literally happened to me last week. Showed my home off market to a couple from Minnesota. They flew into my area for a weekend specifically to see my house because they liked the photos I sent them of the place.
They wanted a home with five bedrooms all on the second floor, and at least 4k sqft. My house is the only one within 130 miles for sale fitting that description and we put a lot of work in to unf**k what the prior owners did to the place. The prior owner thought he knew how to do his own work. He did not. We spent tens of thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours fixing stuff he DIYed poorly (and sometimes dangerously).
They come and spend two hours meticulously going through everything. They loved the house and their realtor said on the side they’d put in an offer within the next day.
Then they drove off.
The next day my realtor calls me damn near in tears laughing saying that he just got off the phone with their realtor.
The couple decided not to put in an offer because a full street over and down a hill there are above ground power lines. They thought those power lines were 5G cell towers in a cluster and they were terrified that it was going to beam COVID into their kids’ heads if they played outside.
They said it with a straight face to their realtor, apparently.
The kicker is that there’s actually a 5G tower two doors down from my house that they didn’t even notice. They ultimately bought a very small house two towns over with no above ground power lines but *with* 5G towers in the vicinity.
Frank Russell 1 year ago
The fact that you didn't offer tin-foil hats with the house killed the deal.
A. Starhawk Hunt 1 year ago
I want to start a company making safety tin hats, all kinds of styles, and sizes down to newborn. Venture capitalists? I’m ready!
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BarkingSpider 1 year ago
We have had to undo so many things in our house that the previous owner "fixed." I'm amazed our home didn't burn down.
Teutonic Disaster 1 year ago
I only have one question: How can someone come into a position in live where they can afford a nice house while simultaneously being THAT stupid?
#20
Some old friends of mine were buying their first house and was sitting at the bank together with the seller when he told them that with a minor raise he would leave the wiring in the house. Then they understood it was time to leave.
Debby Keir 1 year ago
We were selling a house with a heated swimming pool. Buyer agrees etc and we start the paperwork. Just before signing and deposits, get a message from the buyer that they have decided they don't want a pool, and it will cost £10k to have it filled in, so would we drop the price by that much? We declined, but luckily the sale continued. Seemingly an attempt at gazumping.
WindySwede 1 year ago
"With a small raise I will leave the the windows, roof, and foundation. Let's say 10%?"
Hey! 1 year ago
Some leave with the chandelier, some with the dishwasher which were both included in the deal, he's leaving with the wiring???? How do you even achieve this? What's the point of doing this? Fairly sure it's also illegal in Canada - I couldn't find a direct answer.
Mike F 1 year ago
For sure. It's pretty bad when you're looking at the listing and dishwasher has been removed!
Load More Replies... RabidChild 1 year ago
He was holding the wiring ransom? Surely that should have been stated up front.
DeoManus Argentem 1 year ago
I've read here on BP that in some countries they take the kitchen cabinets and appliances with them, so it's not that unrealistic. In the US cabinets, appliances, light fixtures, wiring, plumbing, etc. are included. Furniture is not expected to be included (save stuff like installed bookshelves and floor-mounted safes) but can be if part of the contract.
#21
Not a realtor, but a coworker lost a sale because the inspector was an idiot.
I don't know the exact details, but when pouring foundation, sometimes the pourer runs out of cement in one truck, and finish pouring it with another before it comes close to drying. Similiar to how you would pour the rest of milk from one carton before adding milk from a new carton. Apparently, that can leave slight discoloration line, but that's about it.
The buyer cheaped out and got a newbie inspector who saw a line discoloration and thought it was a huge, symmetrical, foundation crack that looped around the foundation. The buyer's real estate agent basically went WTF, told him to find an experienced inspector. She,herself, hired an experienced inspector who came in and explained the exact situation to her client. But the client, understandably so, got spooked and walked away.
Coworker sold it a month later at the same price to another buyer who had a qualified inspector, so it was more annoyance than anything else - but don't cheap out on the inspector - they're important.
Andrew Keir 1 year ago
Critical of everything, if they don't spot problems nobody will
Load More Replies... Savage Susan 1 year ago
And ALWAYS get an inspector. Our friends looked at a house that was up for quick sale, it was what they wanted, at the price they wanted, but the seller said no inspector. Our friends said no sale and were SO glad they did. They heard from their realtor that the people who bought the house with no inspection found termites and a cracked foundation that they had to spend thousands to fix.
Petra 1 year ago
Yes, 100%. If someone refuses to be transparent in business, don't do business with them. They're up to no good.
Load More Replies... Mike F 1 year ago
A family member recently closed on a house and used the inspector that the realtor typically used. All is well and good until about a week ago when we got a pretty significant warmup. She's watching TV and a bat flew by her. Cue panic of course and had a pest guy come in who found not only how the little SOBs got in, but also, mice in the attic.
#22
This story goes back to around 1960 but my parents found it so stupid they told me. A family friend and his young wife found a home they wanted to buy. The wife’s mother was going to give them the down payment. They were super excited about the house and said it even had a breakfast bar, i.e. a counter with bar stools underneath, in the kitchen. The mother said no way would she ever allow her money to be spent on a house with a bar. They tried to explain it to her but ultimately could not buy the house.
Justin Smith 1 year ago
Or bar towel racks. Or bars for getting iut of the pool if one was included.
Load More Replies... digitalin 1 year ago
I know someone whose parents gave them some money for their wedding, but on the condition that their money not be paying for the bar. My friend said ok, the parents' money would cover the music, and her own money would cover the bar. The parents were fine with this ... but it all comes from the same pool anyway? But they were all happy, so 🤷♀️
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
Had a grandmother like that. She didn't even allow cooking sherry in her house. Of course, her first hubby drank himself to death, so I guess the fear was somewhat justified, if not a bit misguided.
Justin Smith 1 year ago
Not really. Anything can be deadly in large amounts and anything can be additive as well.
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#23
My elderly parents were looking to buy a house in the city where I live. One house met all of their criteria, and the furnishings inside even matched the furniture in their own home.
Unfortunately, they were concerned that the arrangement of the kitchen would make it difficult for someone in the living room to hear the TV if someone in the kitchen was running the garbage disposal.
I don't think they really wanted to move.
#24
When we were looking at houses in the early 2010's, we went to see what we thought was a realy nice house. The listing did not show any pics of the finished basement. We toured the upstairs and were very happy. Then we went downstairs. The stucco on the walls was the hard icing kind, which had been pulled outwards into sharp points so that, if you had fallen down the stairs, you would have impaled yourself. There was a wet bar made of thousands of pieces of tacky "cowboy" kitch that had padded faux leather (with buttons) on the three surrounding walls. Everything was glued/screwed/nailed to the wall, including the animal heads, and was listed as 'included' with the sale. It smelled....odd. There was a giant shrine to Mary with a water feature, and a ton of plants, embedded in a divider wall. It took up the whole wall and we couldn't figure out how they had run the water supply. There was a bathroom off the wet bar. It was purple. The walls were purple. The floors were purple. All of the porceline was purple and had Russian Oligarch style gold fittings. It matched nicely with the all teal master bedroom ensuite. After about ten minutes of looking at this, our realtor glanced at us, said, "This is too bizarre", and suggested we leave. The house was still on the market a year later.
A. Starhawk Hunt 1 year ago (edited)
I might have taken it. Plaster could be fixed. And! As your typical over the top ‘Murican (and proud! but also a respectful visitor elsewhere),I’d have gotten a huge kick out of the bizarre-ness, as I and my friends would have had a lot of fun with it. Only thing concerning me is the smell…..odd, um, how and what kind of odd……..wet, odd? Sex odd? Rodent odd? Dead body odd? 😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳
Load More Replies... RabidChild 1 year ago
Aside from the animal bits, that basement and purple bathroom may have been selling points for me.
Ash 1 year ago
right? I'd buy it and have some fun redecorating! only thing i wouldn't be able to stomach is the smell and potentially faulty plumbing.
Load More Replies... Becky Samuel 1 year ago
Not liking the decor in a single room seems like a pretty petty reason to me.
Load More Replies... KatSaidWhat 1 year ago
HTAF did the realtor not know about this? Did they not inspect the house before starting viewings?
Amy 1 year ago
The seller’s realtor would have, the buyer’s realtor probably wouldn’t have seen it before the showing.
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#25
Loved the house. It fit all our needs. We were pumped. As we were leaving, we stood in the porch to take in the neighborhood. The house directly across the street had built shelves into the windows facing the house we were viewing. The shelves were filled with old creepy dolls staring at the house we were looking at. Hundreds of dull lifeless eyes waiting for you to go to sleep so they could [end] you. They were Sun faded. We noped out of there with our realtor’s blessing. It was 20 years ago and it still freaks me out. Why? Just, why?
Frank Russell 1 year ago
Yeah, why? As if you couldn't just ignore the strange neighbor's house.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
Yet many people can't. If something is in your eyeline regularly it's understandable wanting it to be something that doesn't creep you out.
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alaina66 1 year ago
I have a hoarder lady who lives on the street in the back of mine. She has a full sized human skeleton (hope it's fake!) propped up and staring straight at you out of her bathroom window! Been there for about 2 years now? You CAN'T miss it!? He's been just chilling out....She also has a gigantic concrete gargoyle perched upon her front door. WELCOME TO FLORIDA!!
alaina66 1 year ago
I have a hoarder lady near my home that has a full sized human skeleton in her bathroom window which looks at me onto the street. It's been there for at least one and a half years. She also has a huge concrete gargoyle perched over the entrance to her home. WELCOME TO FLORIDA!!!
Becky Samuel 1 year ago
Stamp out unconformity! Down with that sort of thing! Obey our corporate overlords!
Karen Krause 1 year ago
It could have been in memory of a child and wanted to show their collection.
Poison Ivy/Boo 1 year ago
Then keep a shrine in the child's room and not on display for the whole neighbourhood to see. That's just creepy AF.
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During home inspection, one of the bolts that held down the master bedroom ensuite toilet was not installed into the floor strait, thus the bolt holding down the toilet wasn't sitting flush with the base of the toilet. The wife was uncomfortable" sitting on a bent toilet". The husband was furious with the reason. Cancelled the deal anyways. Second home she cancelled because we couldn't confirm if anyone had died in the home. Husband was going to lose his s**t. She ended up liking another home, which I thought was worst than the last one. And in a worst neighborhood. Husband signed quickly incase she changed her mind. Good times... Lol
Tucker Cahooter 1 year ago
I presume statistically most people die in their home rather than, say, dropping dead on the street but in any case how they would expect to be able to establish the exact whereabouts of each previous occupant's demise boggles the mind
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
I don't really get why it's offputting anyway. Unless they've completely missed the fact someone died for weeks so the whole home has that wonderful, rotting corpse scent who cares? *Maybe* if it was a brutal murder (and I stress the maybe), but if it's just someone dying in their sleep? No big deal.
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Awesome At Being Autistic 1 year ago
That deceased person disclosure is required by law in California.
Frank Russell 1 year ago
And then divorce her and leave her in the cruddy house in the bad neighborhood.
#27
We had an offer come in for an apartment in Park Slope, NY. Great apartment. Great location. Guy puts in an offer slightly over asking and we're stoked. THEN - he pulls it back because he was freaking out about there being TWO working fireplaces. Apparently, this was causing him anxiety so he went to his therapist to talk about it and they made the decision that it would cause him too much ongoing anxiety to have those fireplaces.
I have no idea why fireplaces would cause anxiety. I saw them as a positive. But anyway - we sold it for slightly less someone else and the guy didn't have to deal with knowing there were fireplaces in his apartment.
Win win.
Forrest McCanless 1 year ago
We bought our cool old house years ago BECAUSE it had a dozen fireplaces. We relined them all, and converted the upstairs ones to gas/coal setups. Kids have memories of reading by their personal fire in their bedrooms.
Sand Ers 1 year ago
The thing about anxiety disorders - whatever is triggering the anxiety might not be rational, but that doesn't mean the anxiety isn't real. (ask me how many meds I've been on for anxiety.) He made the right call for himself.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
It might not even have been fear of fire, but some weird fear of the fireplace creating an opening into the house. Animals could get in, strange people could climb down the chimney and murder him in his sleep... Sometimes it's easier to just avoid the trigger than deal with it, and sometimes it's entirely irrational. But it's still real to them.
Load More Replies... Stormblessed 1 year ago
Maybe they have trauma or are scared of fire? but even then they could just make it electrical or block it off.
Hey! 1 year ago
I only have one fireplace now (converted to gas because of our pool table) but I have an electrical one in our bedroom. We will be moving in the next 2 years and my husband and I will be looking for two fireplaces. How can you pass that?
Farah Kamal 1 year ago
I have a trauma from fire, and I get scared everytime I get close. Maybe thats why?
Load More Replies... Tiny Dancer 1 year ago
Could be a Feng Shui thing. Fireplaces are believed to suck energy out of the home. Placing a mirror over the fireplace is said to be a good way of bouncing the energy back in. Maybe he was prepared for one, but two was just too much.
Marnie 1 year ago
Drives me nuts. If you rent it, it's an "apartment". If you own it, it's a "condo".
Tyranamar 1 year ago
Not in New York. They're still called apartments. Not condos. No one owns a condo in New York.
Load More Replies... Frank Russell 1 year ago
An area that's cold in the winter with a couple of fireplaces? Not sure if noping out of that is anxiety or just stupidity.
#28
Buyer loved the house until they opened the upstairs storage space. They screamed and ran downstairs because they found a dead bird. It was a large piece of pink insulation that had fallen down.
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
They thought the pink insulation was a dead bird? What, did they think y'all were housing flamingos???
Tucker Cahooter 1 year ago
I hope the owners gave that piece of insulation a proper burial in the backyard
#29
My partner was a bit more superstitious than me but not to the point where I ever thought it was odd or obnoxious. Enter the downtown house we both looked at. It was small and old and “quirky”, which I was ok with. It had a pond in the backyard, and I love ponds. So we get to the house and go in. It is extremely segregated- there are many oddly shaped rooms and lots of doors and no hallways and no flow. We get to the kitchen and there is a very narrow and small door leading up to the attic access (I realize now that’s pretty normal for old houses but at the time, my reaction was more “oh neat, like a hidden passage!”) My partner however saw that hidden doorway and got very spooked and just bluntly and suddenly told me and the realtor “I’m Sorry, this house is a no for me, I hate it. I’ll be outside.” We both looked at each other like ??? And I followed him asking him what was wrong. He totally had the heebie jeebies and was almost shivering and was like “I’m not going back in there, there is something really wrong with that house.” I asked him if it was ok if I finished looking at it and he said that was fine, but there was no way in hell we were buying it. The realtor and I finished the tour just fine. I didn’t find anything odd about it at all; it was just a bit of a weird layout, it needed some fixing, and the house had no flow. The pond was neat.
My partner never was able to articulate further on what creeped him out so bad about the house.
Tiny Dancer 1 year ago
I really need a follow-up where the next owners found bodies in the attic.
Libstak 1 year ago
I'm OK with this. If a place gives you the creeps it's not exactly your dream home is it?
majandess 1 year ago
When my husband and I were house-hunting, I chose one in a small town about 20 miles from where we were living. As we reached the edge of town, he noped the whole place. Didn't even want to look at the actual house. I did persuade him to at least drive up to the place, but something about the area just set him off. We ended up getting a place 40 miles in the opposite direction.
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2x4b523p 1 year ago (edited)
There has always been something creepy about my mum’s house. We moved in when I was 14 and I don’t think I ever got good nights sleep in there. My brother refused to sleep there once while visiting when mum was in hospital and he would be alone in the house and he was bulky 30 year old back then. I stay in hotel now when visiting her. There are rumors the area used to be ancient burial site, not sure if that’s true but we are not the only house on the street with creepy vibes.
Lyone Fein 1 year ago
Some people just have a natural or innate sense of bad feng shui. They get physically uncomfortable, even to the point of having headaches, nausea, migraines, etc.
Nix 1 year ago
Depending on when this happened, it might be that your partner had watched too many "ghost hunting" shows. I used to watch them for fun when they were all the rage, and they were always trying to make the (to us) odd layouts and quirks in many older buildings seem sinister in some way.
#30
We were buying a house in Buffalo while living in Florida. So long distance shopping, with an in-person trip to see the final contenders.
When we arrived, we had about 5 houses on our list. The realtor took us aside and said I have to tell you that a [crime] has been committed in the houses you picked out.
We're like, well which house?
And he said this house and this other house.
Two houses? How did we manage that?
Well, there was a man, and one of the houses was his parent's house, and the other was the house with his wife and kids.
Apparently he [ended] his mom at the one house, [ended] his wife at the second house, and was stopped by a cop for speeding, which saved his dad's life (Dad was at work and he was headed there). Kids were fine, at school, never saw anything. We did tour the houses. They had like big sections of the carpet missing in one of them.
We bought a different house altogether but I still think about one of those houses, bc it was a good house.
Connie Hirsch 1 year ago
Points to an honest realtor, because eventually you'd find out sometime after you bought it.
Alex Boyd 1 year ago
Where I live, I'm pretty sure that's a required disclosure. There's a list you get, when you put your house up for sale, and you have to mark yes, no, or unknown for various things--most of them are, like, Roof leaks, or chimney fire, but I think I remember something about major crimes, or anything that would make the house "notorious "
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pasej41913@bustayes.com 1 year ago
Murder and killed. The words you're looking for are murder and killed.
Jeevesssssss 1 year ago
I am very chilled about death generally but... no, I don't think I could be cool with that.
#31
Walked into the house and noticed a crystal hanging from the ceiling. In the kitchen there were more. Kinda strange but OK. Went up stairs and all of the a sudden they were 10-15 in the hallway.
Then we got to the basement. Room in the back corner. Opened the door and turned on the light. Hells bells that is when it went to a 10. It was a dungeon. We backed out, looked at the realtor and she said it before we did "We are never talking about this".
BarkingSpider 1 year ago
This is why staging is so important. Sometimes you just can't unsee things.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
Maybe it wasn't a sex dungeon, maybe it was a real dungeon... ok, we all know it was a sex dungeon...
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I would *hope* this is one of the weirdest reasons our realtor had ever heard:
Listing said four bedroom, one and a half bath, and it seemed decent in the house photos, so we went to take a look.
It took us a while to find the “half bath.” It was basically a wooden outhouse attached to a wall in the basement.
No plumbing. At all. It just emptied out on to the floor and everything rolled down hill to the drain in the middle of the room.
Nope!
Nikki Sevven 1 year ago
I really hope you called the Board of Health and the Conservation Commission. That's not remotely legal, but it is horrendously dangerous.
#33
When we were looking at houses, I rejected quite a few because they were facing the wrong direction (ie. north). To be fair, I live at a high latitude, and living 3/4 of my life without sun coming in my windows was a no-go.
anaisbananas 1 year ago (edited)
After living in the trees with very little sun and I missed views of the stars overhead. After selling (edit for clarity) and while looking at houses, I used a app to see where the winter sun would be here in western Washington. We ended up finding a amazing, south facing property,but I don't think my agent had seen anyone do that before.
Maisey Myles 1 year ago
Not a bizarre reason at all. My bedroom has two windows- one facing west and the other east. I get to enjoy sunrises and sunsets
#34
The owners had a clause in the purchase and sales that the buyer would have to guarantee that the resting site of their deceased and beloved cat would not be disturbed for ever. And the placard would remain intact.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
Depends where it is located and how big it is. Tiny marker in one corner of the yard - not so bad. Massive plinth in the centre of the front yard - a bit over the top.
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The Starsong Princess 1 year ago
I’m good with that. My sister’s Victorian house has a little flat stone in the garden that says “George - dog and friend” They are careful not to dig there and that’s all.
Rosemary . 1 year ago (edited)
Aww, reading that made me tear up a little. You're a good boy, George.
Load More Replies... Cat Dragon 1 year ago
When I was like 6 my pet Guinea pig died, and we put two bricks on the spot where we buried him. I specifically remember that there was a tiny flower stuck in between the bricks, and it concerns me that I remember what color they were, but the point is that when we moved I point out about 15 times that you couldn't remove the bricks
Nikki Bastian 1 year ago
Yeah. I get this. My mother-in-law had a pack of little dogs and they each had their own peaceful spot in the yard. When they passed, she had them cremated and buried them with a marker. If she ever sold the home, I wouldn't be surprised if this was a stipulation. And what a pretty cat in the picture.
Robert Trebor 1 year ago
I've preserved my brother's pets' graveyard in the back. I think there are four dogs and a cat (Lois) back there.
Janissary35680 1 year ago
How could such a clause be enforceable after title to the property was transferred?
#35
The bizarreness was more from the sellers and we acted accordingly, but they had let bamboo grow straight through the stone foundation of the 1890 home we were going to buy. Our inspector specialized in historic homes and had never seen anything like it. They also had installed a very nice new HVAC, but cut clear through the main support beam of the house to run duct work for it.
#36
It was 12 minutes from a specific place instead of 10
Blue Bunny of Happiness 1 year ago
Depends on the job. Dated a neurosurgeon once, he had to live within 15min of the hospital for when he was on call.
#37
Back in 2010 when foreclosures were still skyrocketing and prices were dropping (I was the buyers agent), I had a sale fall through AT the closing. Both parties had everything they owned in moving trucks! The seller was bitter about prices, saying he was getting ripped off, etc etc. He removed the chandelier in the 2 story foyer (and he wasn’t supposed to as it was attached and did not have an amendment saying it did not convey). Go to the walk through and the buyer immediately said he wants that specific chandelier or he is not buying it. I call the seller’s realtor, said she knows, she told him not to take it etc but the seller said NOPE, he is taking it. Thought we could close by offering $500 each from our commissions since there was no way the seller was going to budge. Buyer said NO. Went up to $1000 each - so $2000 total - and there is no way that chandelier cost $500, and buyer said I want that one from that jerk. Told the seller he still had to pay our commission because we held up our end and brought him the buyer. He didn’t care. Cooler heads did not prevail, buyer sued for his moving and living costs. Seller went FSBO so have no idea what he got. Buyer lost confidence in me so he went somewhere else (new build spec in a different part of town). It was a very expensive nightmare.
BarkingSpider 1 year ago
We went through this with our house and eventually did a short sale in 2012. It sold for cash to investors, which meant flip and likely rent. We took everything that wasn't nailed down, and some things that were. If it had gone to real buyers, we would not have done it. We were able to replace some crappy fixures in the rental we ended up in though.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
I thought it was "Full scale, balls out". So that's a relief.
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Crybabyartist 1 year ago
Acronyms always suck! How the hell is someone NOT in the industry supposed to know what FSBO means? Now I don't want to deal with you either!
Isa Wan 1 year ago
From seller to buyer... Ehh, forgot the rest although I googled it. An no, @sands ers and @val, it is not that easy. My google doesn't give away the explanation at first glance.
Load More Replies... #38
We have dogs. When selling our home, the buyers (during the inspection phase) exercised their right to withdraw the offer because our dogs s**t in the yard.
Not that there was any s**t in the backyard, as I do the ol poop and scoop, but their reasoning was “you can’t get all the poop out of the grass” .
Donkey boi 1 year ago
Great! I'll never be able to sell then. My goats and donkeys have all shat on my lawn before.
Jeevesssssss 1 year ago
Goat and donkey shît isn't a biohazard like dog shît is and is actually a natural fertilizer, if anyone gets arsey with you.
Load More Replies... KatSaidWhat 1 year ago
There's a dude in our neighbourhood who is quite clearly away at the moment. He has a soft top canopy. He also left his car under a tree. Tempted to mount some sort of camera just to see his face when he gets back.
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Scary clowns hanging from the ceiling.
Tucker Cahooter 1 year ago
I think a lot of people seem to have a problem with what constitutes an actual fixture
Maisey Myles 1 year ago
This is why home staging is important - you’re selling your house, not your stuff
#40
House was pretty normal from the outside, normal kitchen, some kitchy cosmetic stuff like a 20 foot wall in the living room with a tropical beach scene print on it, like a giant stylized photo like Carl from Aqua Teen has in his bedroom, whatever. But then the downstairs bedroom was carpeted except the center of the room where they had the bed was tiled and the tile extended over to a shower. Not in a bathroom, it was just a shower in the room. We turned around to leave and noticed the inside of the door was studded, padded leather and had a peep hole that looked in from outside the door.
#41
Te dumbest one I've ever experienced was a couple backing out because I refused to repair the city curb and gutter on the street and it made the house look trashy. It wasn't the approach. it was about 10' from the mailbox, where it looked as if someone parking on the street had continuously ran onto it or into it over the course of many years.
What do you think ?
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
I wonder whether some of these are basically the buyer not being able (or willing) to articulate the reason why the don't like the house, so they use whatever is in their eyeline as justification to back out? Maybe it ticks the boxes, but they just don't like the neighbourhood, or the "feel" of the house. Maybe the aesthetics are just a little off.
Sonja 1 year ago
I think sometimes people just don't feel at home and don't want to explain that.
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Alyssa Phillips 1 year ago
We live in a cul-de-sac, and when one of our neighbors was moving out we decided to throw a circle party. Brought out the bounce house, outdoor movie projector, ordered lots of food, kids running around everywhere. We scared off at least three buyers, but the family that joined the party during their tour ended up moving in and we love them.
weatherwitch 1 year ago
It would scare me off too 😮😂 But you got exactly the people you needed and you were exactly the set up they needed as well. Perfect for you all ❤️
Load More Replies... SnackbarKaat 1 year ago
Went to see a house, the family of the deceased owner showed potential buyers around. Pretended they didn't know where the door to the basement was.. which was filled with water lol. Also went to see a house where downstairs was inaccessible due to.. I can describe it as a dump of dirt and stuff... from the tenants. I saw a dead, flat mouse there, to give an idea. I thought it would be a fit house if we had some professional cleaners clean it out, but the seller wanted a higher price than what i wanted to give
Papa 1 year ago
The only weird real estate thing I have was years ago when an acquaintance was getting ready to sell her house. She mentioned to me that she wasn't sure what to do because the carpet needed to be replaced, and she was afraid if she did it the prospective owners wouldn't like the color. I suggested she not replace the carpet, but get a price, and tell prospective buyers that she had lowered the price of the house so they could get whatever color of carpet they wanted. Her reply was "But what if I did that, and they bought the house, and didn't replace the carpet?" I still haven't figured out why she'd care.
Annik Perrot 1 year ago
When we were house-hunting, I discarded an otherwise OK house because there was a gun-rack with guns in it. Bad vibes. Maybe OK in the US, but this is France.
Dubnaught 1 year ago
That's something that can very easily be removed. I'm assuming the seller would take it with them.
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Sabra Barker 1 year ago
We had a wonderful realtor agent. I will forever remember one of the houses we toured. It was out in the country a bit, which was nice and there was allot of land for my dog to play. The online pictures didn't look bad either. So we pull up to see the house and the first thing we notice is the smell...it smelled like raw sewage outside. Then we see the instructions to enter through a side door and not the front. Already, not looking great. Jessica (our realtor) takes the lead and I am about to follow her. She opens the door and we are instantly hit by two things: 1) it smelled like something had died inside 2) there were a ton of dead flies right in the door. I mean enough to look like a carpet. Jessica and I immediately turned around and closed the door. I turned to my cousin (we were house hunting together) and immediately said the house wasn't for us. We got out of there. I am ninety percent certain there was at least one corpse in that house. But we never heard anything about it
Giraffy Window 1 year ago
It was a beautiful and unusual house with an excellent view in a quiet cul-de-sac, but the bedrooms upstairs were also the hallway so that you had to walk through someone else's bedroom to get to your own. It was such a strange and not easily fixed arrangement. We sadly couldn't afford both this pretty house, and the costs needed to fix the bedroom situation.
Himory TheDreamer 1 year ago
It's so weird to me the idea of buying and living in a house someone else build and lived before. I've lived my whole life in this house my grandfather build, there was no house here before, this area used to be a swamp.
Philip Rutter 1 year ago
Many, not all, of these are excellent illustrations of ... why it pays to study Latin. :-) (didn't see that coming, didja?) A Latin "maxim" - so old no one tries to say where it originates is "De gustibus non est disputandum." Which; actually translated correctly into modern English is "Arguing about "taste" is a bloody waste of time." A common official translation is "There is no accounting for tastes." which is actually a WRONG translation, by an idiot somewhere. The transliteration is "about taste there cannot be dispute". Easy, yeah? And the house choices? De gustibus, baby.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
I wonder whether some of these are basically the buyer not being able (or willing) to articulate the reason why the don't like the house, so they use whatever is in their eyeline as justification to back out? Maybe it ticks the boxes, but they just don't like the neighbourhood, or the "feel" of the house. Maybe the aesthetics are just a little off.
Sonja 1 year ago
I think sometimes people just don't feel at home and don't want to explain that.
Load More Replies... Alyssa Phillips 1 year ago
We live in a cul-de-sac, and when one of our neighbors was moving out we decided to throw a circle party. Brought out the bounce house, outdoor movie projector, ordered lots of food, kids running around everywhere. We scared off at least three buyers, but the family that joined the party during their tour ended up moving in and we love them.
weatherwitch 1 year ago
It would scare me off too 😮😂 But you got exactly the people you needed and you were exactly the set up they needed as well. Perfect for you all ❤️
Load More Replies... SnackbarKaat 1 year ago
Went to see a house, the family of the deceased owner showed potential buyers around. Pretended they didn't know where the door to the basement was.. which was filled with water lol. Also went to see a house where downstairs was inaccessible due to.. I can describe it as a dump of dirt and stuff... from the tenants. I saw a dead, flat mouse there, to give an idea. I thought it would be a fit house if we had some professional cleaners clean it out, but the seller wanted a higher price than what i wanted to give
Papa 1 year ago
The only weird real estate thing I have was years ago when an acquaintance was getting ready to sell her house. She mentioned to me that she wasn't sure what to do because the carpet needed to be replaced, and she was afraid if she did it the prospective owners wouldn't like the color. I suggested she not replace the carpet, but get a price, and tell prospective buyers that she had lowered the price of the house so they could get whatever color of carpet they wanted. Her reply was "But what if I did that, and they bought the house, and didn't replace the carpet?" I still haven't figured out why she'd care.
Annik Perrot 1 year ago
When we were house-hunting, I discarded an otherwise OK house because there was a gun-rack with guns in it. Bad vibes. Maybe OK in the US, but this is France.
Dubnaught 1 year ago
That's something that can very easily be removed. I'm assuming the seller would take it with them.
Load More Replies... Sabra Barker 1 year ago
We had a wonderful realtor agent. I will forever remember one of the houses we toured. It was out in the country a bit, which was nice and there was allot of land for my dog to play. The online pictures didn't look bad either. So we pull up to see the house and the first thing we notice is the smell...it smelled like raw sewage outside. Then we see the instructions to enter through a side door and not the front. Already, not looking great. Jessica (our realtor) takes the lead and I am about to follow her. She opens the door and we are instantly hit by two things: 1) it smelled like something had died inside 2) there were a ton of dead flies right in the door. I mean enough to look like a carpet. Jessica and I immediately turned around and closed the door. I turned to my cousin (we were house hunting together) and immediately said the house wasn't for us. We got out of there. I am ninety percent certain there was at least one corpse in that house. But we never heard anything about it
Giraffy Window 1 year ago
It was a beautiful and unusual house with an excellent view in a quiet cul-de-sac, but the bedrooms upstairs were also the hallway so that you had to walk through someone else's bedroom to get to your own. It was such a strange and not easily fixed arrangement. We sadly couldn't afford both this pretty house, and the costs needed to fix the bedroom situation.
Himory TheDreamer 1 year ago
It's so weird to me the idea of buying and living in a house someone else build and lived before. I've lived my whole life in this house my grandfather build, there was no house here before, this area used to be a swamp.
Philip Rutter 1 year ago
Many, not all, of these are excellent illustrations of ... why it pays to study Latin. :-) (didn't see that coming, didja?) A Latin "maxim" - so old no one tries to say where it originates is "De gustibus non est disputandum." Which; actually translated correctly into modern English is "Arguing about "taste" is a bloody waste of time." A common official translation is "There is no accounting for tastes." which is actually a WRONG translation, by an idiot somewhere. The transliteration is "about taste there cannot be dispute". Easy, yeah? And the house choices? De gustibus, baby.
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