April you had me going there for a minute. Need any web marketing?

You had me in suspense - I was waiting for a horrific ending.

I am sure you are glad that this was a teddy bear.

Rudy, Thanks for stopping by.  Glad I captivated your attention!

James, Good endings only allowed!!  I am glad it was not a body - or animal, etc.  It did cause my heart to really get pumping!

Mike, GLAD isn't even fitting.  Boy did I say a Thank you prayer after this showing!!

Hi April,

I'm so happy that this was just a teddy bear! You had me wondering was was going on. :)

April....I love these types of stories.  I've walked in on naked people, squatters smoking weed and most recently a nasty situation for me.  I opened the cutest little Tudor home you've ever seen only to have a rain storm of 100+ live cock roaches fall on me, into my shirt, in my jacket, everywhere.  They were crawling up and down my legs and everything.  My buyer didn't see what happened.  I went ahead and showed and ignored the crawling as much as possible.  Got home, stripped butt naked and freaked out!  Lesson #1:  Try to keep it together  Lesson #2:  Always bang on the door really hard before entering!

Oh yeah...I did sell that house, too!!!

Thank God that didn't end the way I thought it would!!!  Gees, you had me going.  I bet it smelled bed.

Suzanne, Me too!  After what happens to so many of us, I try to be as careful as possible.  BUt in vacant homes, you get what you get!

Brian - OMG!!! Bugs crawling all over you - yuck.  I'm not sure I could have held that together as you did.  Ick!!  I'm glad you sold the place after all that!

Mel - Yep, good ending!!  I did sell this one too.  Bad inspection though, somewhere between $15 and $20K to fix a bad basement.  Seller can't come up with the money..... Another deal fallen apart!

April...we can get a bit jumpy when things keep occuring.

Bill - you are so right.  In another time I wouldn't have flinched!  At least we had a really good laugh after this event!

April...

Teddy Bear ... I would have reacted the same way! lol We have a guy in our office that actually SHOT an intruding CHRISTMAS TREE with a shotgun! But that's a story that will have to wait until yuletide!

Ain't it fun to be a Realtor?

The first showing I ever did ended with me screaming and running out the door.  The sellers had two birds that had gotten out of their cage.  They didn't make themselves known until after we had toured the home.  They started squawking and one flew into my hair.  Talk about a scare!!!  I don't have much experience with birds and I wasn't hurt. 

Richard, SHOT the poor tree, that guy packs a gun when he shows houses huh?  We can't carry a gun in Wisconsin - what a shame.  That leaves the criminals with the guns and us to fend for ourselves --- with MagLite flashlights.  HA Ha.  I can't wait to hear more about this one in the winter.....

Mel - it really IS fun to be a Realtor.  Don't know if I'm u for anything else.  The best story I have is that of a skunk in the house.... another day for that one.  :)

I was sprayed by a skunk in my own garage on my 31st birthday.  Apparently he saw me first!

Now that's a way to remember your birthday.  Yech!

Mel,

Have you written a blog on your skunk story?  That would be interesting.  Did you bathe in tomato juice??? YUCK!

Showing vacant properties can be a blast. Get a Big can of pepper spray April just in case.

BTW, I'll come get my bear. Sorry!!! LOL

April, So true... you just never know.  A buyer opened an oven one time and the biggest roach I've ever seen jumped out.  I though we all were going to wet ourselves.

Cameron Now you that leaving your bear was a great joke?? I will just have to send something your way.  Ha Ha.  Pepper spray is a good idea....

Bob - Thanks for stopping by and sharing such a icky story! :)

What a relief - sounds like you have had your share of scary stories.

Hi Georgina, Yep it's been quite a year!

My first new construction sale, the buyers, building supervisor and I were doing the final walk-through before settlement and the builder and buyer climbed down into the 5' conditioned crawl space.  The buyer looked to one side and said, "What's that?"  (Ribbit.  Ribbit.)  It was a big, juicy frog.  "What's that over there?"  Turns out a worker had left the exterior crawl space cover off the opening, and there were 5 fat bullfrogs that the builder hauled out that day.

Fast forward 2 years plus...I was attending a meeting at the above-mintioned homeowner's house in early June.  Walking up to her door, I saw many tiny frogs (1/2 inch and smaller) hopping at the edge of the grass.  I asked her about it, and she said they are everywhere!  A pest control expert told them not to kill the Kermits because they eat nasty bugs, but he did scoop about 50 of the little guys out of a window well and dumped them into the pond behind their house.  Perhaps those waterfront sites aren't always worth the lot premium!:)

Dianne - that is such a cute story.  The frogs do eat so many bugs - sqeeters especially, I imagine they are a wanted commodity on a lakefront/pond/water property.  They must like her crawlspace.