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Off the top of my head .....The attacked by Python house, the attacked by Monkeys( Oops Chimps) house, the no plumbing below the main floor into the basement house ( everything just hit the basement floor from the upper 2 floors of baths and kitchen), the "is that sofa moving" in a dark house ( not a sofa, a sofa completely covered with cats), the foreclosure house where a double murder took place in the middle of summer and had to get the detective to open the door ( he said "you will never forget this smell" and stood outside, he was right!), the I'll kill anyone who comes in my room house, the tenant who didn't want to let me, the owner and realtor in and called the police (because he didn't want the owner to sell ) and stated he was the owner so the police said get off his property house, the retired school teacher who was tearing up her hardwood floors in all the bedrooms to burn the wood to heat the dwelling house, the "do you bring your Doberman with you on all your appraisals? thats not my Doberman I thought it was your dog " house, the piles and piles of clothes in a 2 story farm house that kept moving and moving house( don't want to know), the "I told you to only play with the dead ones " grandma talking to the diaper wearing child on the floor with roaches house, the "vacant" home with the Gold Jacket wearing RE agent when we walked in on 4 dealers cutting drugs and money in a basement room house, the " thats an interesting rug, oh thats not a rug thats my sons dead dog he just died there 4 yrs ago and we never did move it" house, and finally the woman who was worried what I might tell the bank when I saw her state of the art basement S&M chamber house.:laugh:

This is A LOT More interesting than my career so far!
 
And then I had two inspections in one day where the first one looked like the photos above, in addition to all the garbage, he had a 5 gallon pail outside the bathroom that he kept all the cat feces that he'd 'find around the house', that was overflowing.

Then the next one was a house that was being 'remodeled' by the homeowner. All of this in one house:
The workmanship was so poor that I wouldn't have been surprised to hear that the work had been done by a cross-eyed paraplegic with no arms. MDF used as flooring, not one inch of which was flush with the thresholds or any of the other patches of piecemeal plywood, or whatever-the-heck else he could find to use. I don't know how many times I tripped in that house. Stairs to the upper level where every step was a different size, height, angle, and/or depth. An above ground pool that was just NASTY and the HO even remarked about how his grandchildren loved to swim in it. And the discharge pipe of raw sewage from the house that crossed the driveway and into the ditch.

I'll see if I can dig those photos up.
 
Dish soap in the bathroom...I don't even want to think about why that is.:huh:
 
I thought it ironic that there was a bottle of Sno-Bol in the bathroom and also a full box of Hefty garbage bags in the kitchen. I have a brilliant idea - USE THEM.
 
1. The HUD foreclosure where the people locked the 15-20 cats inside when they moved out (pine hills).

2. The HUD foreclosure where the transients had taken residence. They made their campfires in the living room, and the ceiling was covered in soot. (in Angebuilt Addition sub)

3. Polk Street in parramore-- This was a vacant VA foreclosure that the local love merchants (female) used as their "office".

4. Oviedo -- I get to the backyard and the neighbor was sunbathing topless. Too bad this was before digital pics.

5. College Park -- Grandpa still lived there, but his mind was totally gone. He had forgotten what the toilet and shower were for. Pool old dude.

6. Altamonte Springs -- lockbox, was supposed to be vacant. In the master bedroom there was a stack of hustler mags next to the bed and a half smoked joint in the ashtray.

7. Duplex in Parramore -- The owner was supposed to meet me there, it was vacant. Owner was a no-show but there was an independent pharmeceutical transaction taking place in the back yard, complete with pit bull.

Ahh, the memories...
 
I forgot to mention the house with the murder suspect hiding in the duct's.
 
yikes

1. Renters evicted out of 2 year old house after their many cats destroyed the place. I had to go home and take a shower.
2. Hoarder meets me in the driveway to tell me to scoot down the garage wall to go inside. He had no grass in his backyard because the dog's (30+ chihuahuas) urine had killed all the grass. The entire living room, garage, and two bedrooms were completely filled with junk. He stated that he was a millionaire with all the stuff he had collected from garage sales.
3. REO with the usual removed plus the toilets were DRAGGED across the carpet and out the door. The game room apparently doubled as a dog house for their pit bull-- piles of poop.
4. Creepy husband wants to help me measure the house. No thanks. He asks again but this time he strokes my arm. YUK. I go inside the house and his wife is in a hospital bed in the living room completely naked with her legs amputated and a sheet pinned above her. As soon as I was out of her line of sight her husband kept ACCIDENTALLY bumping up against me. Creep.
5. Rural property that was very secluded with security cameras and confederate flags on the porch. Griizzly adams HO with no shirt on refuses to let me enter. I take exterior pics to show i was there and notice at least fifty propane tanks outside the garage--Can you say Meth lab!!!
 
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