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Real Estate Agent with Coldwell Banker Good Life Real Estate Group Kansas City

Dear ActiveRain Community,

Just thought I would try one more time to stir up a little interest in sharing your most memorable Inspection-related highs and lows, booms and busts, and more.

What about strange items found? Ever find any live critters? Valuable items or money? Electric wiring that looks like a spider web? Anything unbelievable or totally surprising?

What about experiences with clients? Ever have a Buyer turn the inspection report into a Christmas wish list? Ever feel like the Sellers are taking out their frustrations regarding Buyer requests on YOU? What was your best SAVE? What was your worst inspection moment?

Come on, have a little inspections fun and/or let off a little inspections steam. Let us laugh with you through the good times and we will cry with you through the bad!!!

Please consider contributing--it's easy and could even be fun and entertaining!!! Just click on COMMENT and add yours, and you are all set!!!

THANKS,

-JC

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Enjoying The GoodLife!,

 

-John Currey, Residential Market Specialist

Coldwell Banker GoodLife Real Estate Group Kansas City

10865 Grandview Dr., Suite #2050

Overland Park, Kansas 66210

816-225-3888

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Ray Wilson
Meticulous Home Inspection Corporation - Bohemia, NY
NYS Licensed Home and Building Inspector

Hi John- This is from my recent blog. What do you think? -Ray

Funny things seen while inspecting a home. (Long Island) (edit/delete)

I am sure agents have seen many odd things when at a listing presentation or at an inspection. I wanted to include some of mine - just for a laugh.

I had to stand in a basement bathtub so that I could remove the cover for the electric service panel box - yikes! Then, I walked away for 30 seconds to get a tool from my bag in the kitchen, and someone turned on the water and was about to enter the shower with the cover off - double yikes!!

A friend of the buyer who attended the inspection began to lift her top to breast feed her baby.  I was somewhat surprised, but wasn't about to stop her.

A neighbors dog jumped a fence to see the sellers dog, who was in heat. The rogue dog jumped through the screen door and began to do the 'wild thing'. The seller was mortified - the rest of us couldn't help but laugh!

I opened a 'room' in a basement with a door that looked like a wall unit. When I got inside, there was a marijuana farm inside, complete with grow lights, a ventilation system and gardening equipment.

The best one is from personal experience, as the house is the one I grew up in. After my mother sold our house in Farmingdale, Long Island, I went back one day to say hello to my old neighbors. The guy who bought our house came up to me and asked 'aren't you the guy who lived in the house I bought?' I responded 'yes'. He exclaimed 'did you know we found a bomb in your house?' I was surprised, but then it all came back to me.

You see, my father was a NYC cop who, from time to time, would bring home weird stuff from the city, and once he brought home an artillery shell from a cannon. It was about 16 inches tall, and 4 inches in diameter. He told me it was not a 'live' round, so I would lift this heavy shell and throw it into the air. It would crash into the concrete floor and go 'clankity clank', and bust up the concrete. When I got a few years older and stronger, I would lift the shell up to the ceiling in the basement, and drop it, point first, onto the concrete floor. I loved to play with the shell.

The now-owner of the house said 'We called the cops, who called the fire dept, who called the bomb squad! 'They evacuated the homes in the area, and the bomb squad guys were white as ghosts, and wrapped the shell in matresses and blankets, and brought the shell to a munitions dump, where it was exploded'.

I wish I had been there. Eyewitness news was there, and many local new stations carried the story as well. It made the newspapers too! My old house was famous! -Ray 

Jan 26, 2008 10:14 AM
John Currey
Coldwell Banker Good Life Real Estate Group Kansas City - Kansas City, MO
Residential Market Specialist

Now THAT is what I am talking about! Thanks, so much, for sharing, Ray--GREAT STUFF!!!

I am all smiles!!!

-JC

 

OK, AR Community, Ray has given you a great lead to follow. Looking forward to reading your best inspection moments here soon!!!

Smiles!,

-JC

Jan 26, 2008 10:23 AM
John Rossi
RE/MAX West Realty Inc., - Woodbridge, ON
I remember one inspection where the inspector mentioned to my client that the furnace will be due for an optional cleaning in about 6 months.  My buyer took me aside and said, "John, do you think we should amend the agreement to include this furnace cleaning"......He was serious.
Jan 26, 2008 10:26 AM
John Currey
Coldwell Banker Good Life Real Estate Group Kansas City - Kansas City, MO
Residential Market Specialist

Gotta love this biz!

;-))

-JC 

Jan 26, 2008 10:33 AM
Ron Parise
LocateHomes.com - Cape Coral, FL

I had an inspector tell me the septic system was failing and needed to be replaced. And of course he knew of a company that could get the work done before settlement. 

There was no problem with the system. This was a clear attempt to force the seller into doing an un necessary, expensive job to get his house sold.

 The seller in this case was me, and Ill never pay for a home inspection again.

Jan 26, 2008 10:44 AM
John Currey
Coldwell Banker Good Life Real Estate Group Kansas City - Kansas City, MO
Residential Market Specialist

Ouch!--Luckily, it sounds like you had just the right 'anti-septic' for that one...

;-] 

-JC

Jan 26, 2008 10:58 AM
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