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Gather 'round, kids! It's story time. We're looking for a bigger house to rent...

Posted by Mop (aka rburriel) Feb 5 '09, 10:47

...we're not brave enough to buy a house yet, but the current rental house is much too small (and no air condition). We think we've found the right house and we toured it yesterday around lunch time. The agency woman who showed us around hadn't been in the house before so it was new to her, as well. She told us that the furniture in the house was just for staging. We soon found out that this was not the case.

Touring the house, it had a clear "lived in" feel. There was food in the pantries and the fridge (although very little of it). While it was all pretty well picked up (no magazines on the floor or clothing on a chair, and the bed was made), I couldn't shake the feeling that someone was living there.

The microwave had evidently been used recently (very dirty). There was stuff in all the rooms, and soap and shampoo in the shower. There were utensils in the kitchen drawers and toiletries in the bathroom drawers. And in the bedroom, I looked in the dresser and found a jar with A HUMAN HEAD! Well, no, it was just a jar with some money in it. But if you have to run, you'd think you would take your jar with money, no? So what happened here?

Raul

Responses:

Could be a live in stager. Most likely. -- nm - lileve Feb 5, 11:03
someone's quietly squatting there? -- nm - Crusty Gorillahump Feb 5, 11:00
maybe she was just misinformed. or maybe this is the new "staged." -- lived in. very lived in. -- nm - kare Feb 5, 10:53
rent mine!!!!!! -- nm - redmond Feb 5, 10:52
They're trying to squeeze more money out of you by offering to let you rent the furniture as well. -- nm - Loyola Feb 5, 10:52
Oh, oh! The kicker! I forgot! - Mop Feb 5, 10:51 8
- one of the other agency people is squatting there. -- nm - mafic Feb 5, 10:54
- maybe just a foreclosure. grabbed what he wanted, said "screw it" to the rest. -- nm - kare Feb 5, 10:53 6
  - /calls dibs on the GE Profile fridge and the jar of money! -- nm - Mop Feb 5, 10:54 5
    - seems like there would be someone that goes in and clears things out. huh. maybe that's a new growing career path. -- nm - kare Feb 5, 10:55 4
      - You're taunting me, aren't you? -- (link) - Mop Feb 5, 10:59 1
        
        here's a similar story from ABC. -- (link) - loosilu Feb 5, 11:00
      - THere's a booming industry in cleaning out foreclosed houses. some people leave a LOT of stuff. -- nm - loosilu Feb 5, 10:58 1
        
        makes sense. and yes, Mop, I am. ;) -- nm - kare Feb 5, 11:02
is it available immediately? i'd guess not. i think that's the current tenants belongings you were looking at. -- nm - Andie Feb 5, 10:50
uh, it's a house with tenants? -- nm - mafic Feb 5, 10:50
Renters not out yet and they got persmission to show it before they go -- nm - Epiphany Feb 5, 10:49
Wrong house -- nm - oblique, eighth best slackertalker Feb 5, 10:49 1
- also, we toured a house for sale when we were buying ours where the people appeared to have ran out in the middle of dinner - oblique, eighth best slackertalker Feb 5, 10:49

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