What is your best horror story

[Mike Garrett RAA]

I forgot the manufactured home at became a pidgeon roost. Must have been a foot of pidgeon dung on the floors and more than 100 nesting in the rafters.

 

[Timothy Rock]

I'm inspecting the nicest house in the hood. The owner has completely renovated the interior. All high end finishes. He proceeds to tell me he has paid over 50k for the renovations. All cash he says. He says I only deal in cash. I say that must be nice. I make my way to what I am expecting to be the garage. Upon entering the garage half has been converted to a nice bedroom. I start to proceed to the second half to open the door. The owner says I can't go in there because his uncle is in there sleeping. I tell him I have to see every part of the home and I will not disturb his sleeping uncle. Before he can protest anymore I open the door to peer in. This room turns out to be just the other half turned into storage with the garage door still intact. The only thing in this room is a large floor freezer {about the size a person could be put into I guess} and a small radio with music playing. I don't say anything. I didn't know what to say. He had just blatantly lied to me but what would you say to a guy that's twice your size and probably the biggest dealer in town. I proceeded to change the subject...

Be careful of what you might find in Florida REO pools. I walk into the back screened pool enclosure and something extremely large slides into the pool. I did not see it but it left a huge wake to splash water out. Scared the s out of me. This was no turtle. I feel bad for the pool company that had to check this one out.

 

[Donna Quixote]

OK, glad I started this thread, good to see something on this site that can make us alll laugh. And as far a packrats go, my mother-in-law can beat them all. Just wanted to add a few more of my stories:
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[Donna Quixote]

Oops, typing too fast and somehow posted before I finished

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[Donna Quixote]

Now I am just stupid, and will stop hitting the tab button. Cat house, you know, not the fun kind. Woman raised some special bread that looked like a lepard. Unfortunately she had about 50 of them and no litter box. The smell was so overwhelming it could gag you from outside. By the time I got in the basement my eyes were watering so bad (and yes, I was wearing a mask) that I could not read the electical box.

Was in a house that looked a lot like the pix above and the woman was A CLEANING LADY!!

Really creepy, I was in this nice condo with Mr. Homeowner when I am checking out the private bath in bedroom, I hear the bedroom door click shut. I gave this guy a look and he claimed that he didn't want the cat to get into the bedroom, I sternly told him to open the door and started carrying mace after that one.

How about the one where I got mauled by a Weimerrotter, a teenager is holding this 80 lb dog which is rearing up at me snarling. Rotten brat wanted to send an instant message and so she just let that dog go. As I was bleeding from both arms onto the floor the witch walks past her dad (who has heard all the racket) and says "I guess she's not a dog person".

Go to love the houses with bullet holes in them.

I went to a house where the homeowers were Mong immigrants, they vented a kitchen fan into the attic and not out, for 6 years. I never saw so many different kinds of mold in my life, not to mention that they had a 9 week old baby in the house.

 

[Kristina Ledesma]

Oooh boy!

Well, there was the house with 50+ cats inside....PEE UUU!!

Or the vacant attached condo that the sink ran over for 3 months and was moldy/soaking mess.

Or the REO that the prior occupants pulled all the neighborhood trash into (4' deep thoughout a 2400sf home).

Or the house that was completely covered inside with mold and garbage....

 

[appraisalondemand]

let the photos speak for themselves

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Can't find my favorate hoarder right now...will come across it soon.

 

[G-man]

How many times.

Oooh boy!

Well, there was the house with 50+ cats inside....PEE UUU!!

Or the vacant attached condo that the sink ran over for 3 months and was moldy/soaking mess.

Or the REO that the prior occupants pulled all the neighborhood trash into (4' deep thoughout a 2400sf home).

Or the house that was completely covered inside with mold and garbage....

Do I have to tell you people to stay the F*** out of my house!

Your on my list to, Mr. Appraisalondemand! I am not a "hoarder"! I'm just an avid collector of unusual and totally worthless crap. You just don't understand art when you see it.

 

[Deleted member 77547]

Inspection for a sale. Home vacant. I ring the doorbell and the seller opens the door. I go in and he locks the two deadbolts behind me. The hairs on the back of my neck stood straight up. He noticed my uneasyness and proceeds to tell me that its his mother's house and his 1/2 brother tried to "steal" the house and moved in for awhile until he had his 1/2 brother evicted....restraining order.... threats against his life..... so he bought and now carries a gun. The home settles and there was a quick creaking noise. The seller stops mid sentence and runs from window to window looking to see if someone was there. My mind is racing because I don't know who the nut is...him or his 1/2 brother.

I couldn't get out of there fast enough. Outside there was snow on the ground and foot prints around the house and he started wondering out loud if his 1/2 brother was there....wondering if he was hiding in the shed. Finally, I told him to back off and stand some distance from me because I didn't wan't to get caught in the crossfire. Thankfully, the house was square, I measure two sides and left. What a crackpot. This is when I started carrying mace.

At a condo conversion: Sales rep takes me to the unit, which was beng rented. There are several notes taped on the door that she placed there several days prior...including an eviction notice. She goes to put a key in the door and the tumbler falls out. She tells me to back away from the door because the guy might have a gun and she didn't want him shooting through the peep hole. So I move clear out of the way into the parking lot while she calls security to sweep through the unit before we enter. Unit reeks of mothballs, windows covered and the perimeters of the door was duct taped to the frame. Creeeeepy. I suspected drug activity. Snapped three pictures and left. I was in this complex on six prior occassions and each time was an adventure. In a prior incident at this same complex, the unit was so filthy that I literally gagged when I put the interior pictures in the report.

Where else can one get this kind of an adrenilin/flight or fight rush for $300.

 

[David S. Roberson]

Last week; Fannie Mae REO that had been used as an unattended dog kennel for about six months (owner was not happy about the foreclosure). The floor was covered in 6" of dog crap.