Unusual or Funny stories about moving in/out of houses

[frostedpink]

We looked at a house once that was a rambler with a big pool table in the basement. There was a sign on it that said the pool table "MUST STAY WITH THE HOUSE". The stairs were so narrow, it was obvious that they just didn't want to have to deal with moving it.

The house also stunk like cigarettes and had music blasting through the house during the showing. ???

 

[Sadie22]

We looked at a house which had a life-size nude painting of the lady of the house in the bedroom. We never met her, but the Realtor told us who it was. We made an offer on that house, but the roof failed our inspection and the owners wanted their roofer to do a quick fix rather than put money toward what we wanted done, so we took our deposit back and found a better house elsewhere.

After we moved into this house, we found that the previous owners had pieced together small pieces of vinyl flooring in front of the basement stairs. They had hid this under a scatter rug. We soon replaced the flooring and the new, but cheap, carpeting in the adjacent room.

 

[JennaDeeDooDah]

We had something interesting happen when my husband and I bought our first house. We moved in on a Thursday but were going to a college football game in Lubbock that weekend so we really just moved the stuff in and hit the road. We noticed that the previous owners had left a Christmas wreath, a cheap grill, a bag of Cool Ranch Doritos, and two avocados. Thought it was strange, but no big deal, right? We would deal with everything when we got back on Sunday. So Sunday rolls around and we head back to our house. We walk in and I notice that the stuff the previous owners had left was missing. Odd. Then I found a note saved for us on the bar. It said that they realized that they had left a few things and came back to get them. When we didn't answer, they tried their key and discovered we had changed the locks, so they called a locksmith and told him that they were the owners. The neighbors vouched for them so some locksmith broke into our new house to let the old owners in so they could get their stupid chips, avocados, a wreath, and a grill.

 

[Iamthequeen]

The first house we bought had a nude painting on the back wall of the closet in the master bedroom. When moving out of our last house, my bil and cousin moved the piano from the living room (no stairs!) to the front sidewalk and put a for sale sign on it! They did eventually move it into the moving truck though.

One house we were moving into, the previous owner took every single light bulb out - she also took the chandelier in the dining room

 

[mrsheppo]

When we were buying our house, the previous owners had taken all the appliances and the garbage disposal. They also took all the shower heads in the bathrooms but left all the expensive wooden blinds and light fixtures

 

[APiratesLifeForMe2]

Didn't happen to me but there was a pretty famous murder trial in our town and the prime suspect was found not guilty. Turns out the new owners moved in to his old house and decided to pull up the carpet when they found film and jewelry proving his guilt. He was only ever convicted of purgery due to double jeopardy! I can never shake that thought when new owners start removing carpet- eeek!