What is the strangest or scariest thing you have found in a client's home?

ouch!  That would totally freak me out.  I once had an ecentric couple who were into alternative kind of stuff (skulls, weird figurines)  The first couple that loved the house decided against it because of the "demons" that the house possessed...

Kate, the strangest thing I ever saw in a house was money, lots, and lots and lots, and lots and lots of money. Scared me to death.

in an open house I went to while looking to buy a house I found the sellers had not a clue in their FSBO that their teenage sons should put away their marijuana paraphrenalia before a showing

I've seen naked people, bongs, sex toys, lines of coke, hairballs, poop in toilets and out, and several guns, but the one that really freaked me out was opening a closet and finding a DOG.  It was just sitting there, waiting for a command.  Unfortunately it was dead.  And stuffed.  Mounted.  The owner must have really, really loved that dog!  Still, leaving a loaded gun on the floor is very irresponsible!

That would be scary. I definitely wouldn't touch it either. You absolutely did the right thing.

In Arizona we encounter more homes than you would think that have guns of some sort. Perhaps its a fall back to being a part of the "wild west". We always tell people that they need to get rid of the guns and not have them out where buyers can get their hands on them -- especially a child. And people we tell do put them away - we insist.  But it's not uncommon to go into a listing on a broker tour, or to take a prospective buyer and see a gun ~that apparently they were either not told to get rid of, or they did not listen.

I haven't run into that here and the only "weird" thing I ran into was a guy who prayed and practiced "magic"...you know the voodoo stuff...and when the cleaning lady was moving the mattress found a knife underneath...

Sounds like this homeowner may be on track for a Darwin award. 

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I'm not sure if i would have freakout from seeing a gun in the house.  I would have probably move it with a paper towl to a safer place in the house and notify the homeowner.  Back in high school, i wrote an article about guns and its safe for some crazy project and i feel the gun related topics differ from areas you were grown up in.  I work out in outter part of the city limit in rurual area and you will find plenty of guns in people's home and you never know if they are loaded.  I don't know if you guys had experience with selling a hunter's home, but one how i showed had over 100 taxadermie animals ranging from bears to little tiny farret.  The house was over 4500 sq. ft. and half of his downstairs was a personal mesum for his collection.   He had your typical moose and dear head. 

I don't know anyone has sold a rental house near college campus, but once you've seen those rentals, you've seen them all, everything else just doesn't come close.  I've seen college rentals with people passed out in the back yard, garbage everywhere, naughty objects and affections that were previously mentioned.  Besides, many of the top officials in our government have done pots and few other white powder in their life time.

maureen,, i actually like that art work of your client.  it maybe little inappropriate but with a nice pants or kilts, he would look just fine.  last time i saw one of those project was at washington DC's smithsonian museum.

Under the sofa, huh? I believe that is where Elvis stashed his gun after blasting that TV set... Glad no one small (kids) found it...

What a story, Yes again, sure glad there were no kids around.

I'll give you the owner was wrong to leave the gun out when people were coming to move things. It is however only a gun. It's not alive it will not attack you. Its not a bomb it won't explode or jest go off. I don't think I've been in a house in the past 15 years that didn't hav at least one gun in it.  Those who commented they'd "freak-out", You must have a very dull life or be wound really tight.

That being said, the owner of the gun should have been More responsible.

My favorite was a first showing I had with a young couple. She attending a local seminary school and he a grad student at OSU. They were refferred to me by a very religious friend who was also in seminary school.

We walk into the second home on the tour and the smell of pot is very strong. The house in in dissary, but I'm hoping they are naive enough to miss the smell.

We walk through the downstairs and head up to the second floor and are greeted with a stripper pole, I just stop. Hoping against hope they think it is a brace and scan my eyes to the right and there are pictures of different women, thankfully clothed, "demonstrating" the pole. We leave and the non-buyer says "this is one of those houses you buy and for six months you have people coming up trying to buy drugs from you."

Thankfully it wasn't the same as her friend, or it would have been a deal breaker.

Guns being found in this area are normal, we really don't think twice about it, I guess.

I have shown a house that right when we walked in the selling agent told us a skunk just died under the house. IT WAS AWFUL!

I'm glad you didn't find a dead body to go along with the gun!

Well, after reading this blog, I'm feeling pretty blessed right now.

I thought dirty underwear, rude posters, marijuana, and beer fridges in bedrooms were bad to have to stage with......

Loaded gun? THAT would make me pretty pissed. I would have left the home right then and there. As one blogger had said before....what was the owner thinking?

Julia

Why would people do such a thing it's just beyond me! What if some silly kid was playing and found it underneath the couch and thought it was a toy gun?! People do leave the privatest thing around. I tripped over the seller's vibrator once. haha

 

cheers,

 

cindy 

 My question would be how in the world could someone just forget the gun was there? The home was staged, so I take it not occupied...where is the need for a loaded gun if no one is living there?

 

WOW!