They Name Houses... don't they?

I sold a house once that had an interesting exception pop-up on the Preliminary Title Report.  The exception was for: Dead Man Walking.  Who knows what it meant.  Not even the Title Co. could figure it out.  So, that was the Dead Man Walking house... on the river, no less :)

Oh, we name houses.  Yes, we do.  Some of them I can't say here...but there are those characters and characteristics that sometimes make this ever so much more interesting. 

lane,

though there are many proponents of banning all not purely 'Buy my listing' type of blog posts, those human (and often humorous) posts are what make it interesting and live

Pretty funny, Lane. Voyeur House reminds me of that movie with Sharon Stone and William Baldwin...the name escapes me...oh, yes, Sliver...

Very humorous.  I guess we do name houses, even if it is just by the street name.  But, you are right about calling it the Dead Man House etc.  I have had a few of those over the years.

Then there was the "naked-lady-at-the-door house".  She said she thougtht our showing appointment was two hours hence.  She never did say who she was expecting to be greeting by "swinging" open the door at the precise moment we arrived.  But I have often wondered.  My buyer probaby has, too.

I've opened bedroom doors on sleeping people and been licked half to death by friendly dogs....I just think of it as CHEAP exfoliating!!!

That's one of the things I love about this business -- never a dull moment!

Great post. Showed a house once where in one of the bedrooms a person was in the bed completely under the covers. We spoke and rattled a leg (I think it was a leg) trying to assure the potential seller it was not a corpse. Never got a response.

Yep, there's almost always the "Mean Dog House," and the "Ugly Wallpapered House" and if showing foreclosures there might be the "No Kitchen Appliances and Holes in the Wall House"!

Fabulous post, I actually use something like this for part of my listing presentation.  I give them examples of how people "name" homes and help them see what people may "name" their house and how to stage it to avoid being known as that ".........house"  Its been very helpful.  I always laugh at the names people come up with.  Yesterdays showings were boring we just had the "dog house" and the "party house"..........   Have a great day!

Then there was the fall through the floor house, the snake house, the urine house, and we go on and on and on.......

That's why I like showing land.  But these too have their names - like "goat farm" - the seller thinks it's a great horse property, when in fact it's so steep only goats would thrive. 

'Crack House' - foundation problem

'Sunglasses House' - bright, BRIGHT colors throughout

We almost always come up with some nicknames.  My favorite when I'm working with a buyer is when they call it 'Dream House'.

THe one we all have had..."The Smelly House"...or "Hold Your Nose House".  Great post, now I am going over to read Greg Nino's post.

When I was a kid in Albany California there was a house on the corner we all thought was haunted.  A crazy lady lived in it.

My grandad built a house on his land in Arkansas.  Years after he died and when they were moving grandma out they found his hidden still in the basement (grandma was a tea totaler).