I’ve taken to carrying a Flip video camera in my truck and I’ve started to shoot the more “interesting” things I see while out appraising homes. Over the years I’ve seen some crazy things from Sakrete (quick set concrete mix) poured into toilets, cut pipes to flood homes, to homes literally axed apart, to homes set up to hydroponically grow pot, to one of the best to this day – a townhouse in Albany NY that had about two feet of soil in two bedrooms where the owner grew pot.

Interesting foreclosure videos continue to be posted, like the rat infested home. Today’s videos are more routine….

Here’s a home about 3-4 years old which typifies the kind of work many distressed homes need. Torn up kitchen, bathrooms, drywall, carpet….and a distinct smell of puke. Oh yeah, it was on the landing path of Atlanta Hartsfield and about a quarter mile from busy railroad tracks.

Then there’s this one. This is an older home in need of updating and repair – nothing crazy. The “ahhh” was an oldie but a goodie….dog feces. I was given a heads up by the maintenance firm that house was “covered in it”. As soon as I hung up, I prepared – and made certain I had fresh batteries in the video camera. Unfortunately I arrived just as they were finishing scraping it out, literally. I did however catch the stank. Check out how the floors are literally stained and cupped due to the continued exposure to the “product”. Obviously I called for refinishing but I think many areas will need to be replaced.

Just another visual reminder to be realistic when considering a foreclosure - you never know what went on before that sign went up....but I do!

 

Hank Miller,SRA
Associate Broker & Certified Appraiser
Atlanta Communities Real Estate
678-428-8276 direct
hank@hmtatlanta.com
www.hmtatlanta.com

 

 

 
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1 Comments on Trashed Foreclosure & Feces...Videos Before They're Listed

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02
2011
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I wish video could capture the "stank".
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