Given the choice which would you choose to list? A More than Million Dollar commercial listing, or would you takea house that is set to go on the auction block in less than 48 hours and well in a minute I will discribe the house further, but let's just say is in scary shape in an almost equally scary neighborhood.  (did I mention that the over Million Dollar listing has frontage on 512...a hwy with extreemly high traffic going by thousands upon thousands of cars a day)

Well let me tell you a bit more about the house in foreclosure....

*It was in one of the worst neighborhoods in our area.

*It was cockroach and  other bug ( i don't even know what kind they were)  infested to the point that the walls of the kitchen were black

*There was rotten meat that the tenants had left behind months and months before on the counter and in the fridge. ( power is off)

*Where there used to be toilet there was just a hole full of you guessed it....more cock roaches and spider webs.....

But you see compared with what else was wrong with the house you might have called these things selling points ( did I mention also extreem amounts of garbage and also broken pipes though out and at least 2 truck fulls of trash in the yard)

This however what not what was going to make the house really difficult to sell.  As I said the house was scary even more than the neighborhood.....you see my client's tenants or some one who broke in after the tenants left ( we were never able to tell for sure since my client was out of the country when the tenants left) had performed animal sacrifices in the house. 

I thought it was strange that the client would not go anywhere near the house and told me he had thrown out his only key.  The first time I entered the house I went with one of my investor clients late at night since he wanted to see if before anyone else did.  It was dark and we only had a flash light to see with.  We had a note from the seller giving us permission to break into the house and be on the premises in case the police showed up when we broke in ( they did not) 

When we entered the house it just felt wrong.  There was something dark on the door post, but I thought it was pop or food or something.  The smell was horrid, but hey I work with investment homes so I had smelled much worse in the past.  But some how my client, a big talk strong husky Merchant Marine after just a few moments there said  "ok, I've seen enough, let's get out of here"  It was very dark and we could not see much.  It was late, and my baby girl was asleep in the sling while I showed it so I did not object, and to me something felt wrong too.

The next morning, my assistant went in the light to take pictures and she called me and said....did you really SEE this place, and I said well it was dark, but it gave me the creeps and our client too, so we left...why how dirty is it.

She was very quiet and then she says, well.....it's dirty but that's not it......Anna, there is blood and feathers and other things all over the house and a chalk circle in the living room on the hardwood floors.  ( you get the picture)

So again Agents I ask you which listing would you choose if you could only have one of them an over $Million Dollar commercial listing, or this one?

If you are sane, I hope you chose the $Million Dollar commercial listing.  However I guess in my life I have found sanity to be just slightly over rated, I took this home listing and later on a few months later I ALSO took the $Million Dollar commercial listing.  In retrospect if I could only have had one of them I would have chosen the one that had less than 48 hours till the bank took it back and cockroaches and the remains of animal sacrifices in it and in my next post I will tell you why....