The strange and bizarre experiences we've encountered doing REI

Tammy that is HYSTERICAL!!!!!

I am sure we have all encountered some strange stuff along our Journey but I think yours is the best that I have heard....lol

I think mine was one day my agent gave me the lock box to a property as he sometimes does if they are vacant and tells me to just leave his business card on the table. This property was supposed to vacant since the guy was in an elderly care home. My husband and I opened the lock box, got the key out and opened the door and lo and behold the TV was on. My husband and I shoved the key back in the lock box and burned rubber out of the drive way! I think it took us all of 2 seconds to disappear from the property....lol

Come to find out later that the old guy had a timer on his tv so it would go on at a certain time of day so people would think he was home. My husband and I went back the following day to try again

I actually had that happen to me once before where things were turning on while we were walking through a vacant property.... talk about running like hell!!!

They were also on a timer

Don't really think it was his house that was for sale!

Yea I think he was selling something else

Or simply giving it away!

Carol your story is funny too, but scary as well. Are you guys trying to motivate us or having us running for the door? LOL!

We are just having fun trust me you will have some interesting stories to tell soon...lol

I am enjoying the stories!! They could be scary at the moment though.

I set off an alarm in a property that was very very loud, Had all the neighbors come out side and stare at us. I freaked out and called my agent at the same time yelling at my husband to go. my agent told me there was no alarm in the prop and it should be fine, I was like UMMMM do you hear it in the background then he was like ummm your at the wrong property HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! So I called the police to let them know what I did so they didn't think someone was breaking in the property. I was so shaken and just plain freaked.

Anyways needless to say I am now paranoid of alarms on any property I go to and HEY they shouldn't use the same codes on lock boxes

I had a wholesale deal where the home owner was living in and I kid you not backed up sewage in the basement. The home owner was in total denial. I told them I was concerned for their health and they should move right away to get out of there since they couldn't fix the problem. They were convinced that it wasn't sewage. I had 3 contractors even talk to them about it. I even offered to wholesale the property for free just to get them out of there. Anyways lesson learned they went behind my back and sold it to an investor I showed the property to even though I had it under contract. Learned my lesson on that one big time. Thats also how I learned about NCND: )

I went to look at a property which we had an appointment to view and the home owner was right there in front of us smoking the green herbage. LOL I guess they didn't care.

WOW! We should start a wholesaling reality show!!

Your stories are too funny, I can picture you walking away with a great deal from the herbal guy... lol Just the contact high would have been enough to get the deal going ... funny!

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I had looked at a house that I needed to go back and take pics of. I was supposed to meet the realtor there but she was a no show! No call!

Whatever, I figured out how to get in the house myself and sneaked in. I was hoping there wouldn't be a vagrant or anybody in there.

I was almost finished with my pictures and I heard two guys opening the lockbox on the front door! Scared me to death, but there was no way out. I was upstairs and trapped. Turned out they were painting contractors that the bank had sent to repaint the inside of the house. (It had a lot of graffiti on the walls the unhappy previous owners left behind)

I came down like I was supposed to be there. They thought I was somebody in charge of something because they started asking me, "Now do you want the walls painted the same colors as they were or just all white?"

"Just white will be fine." And I left!

I can't believe some of you didn't have heart attacks and are still around to tell these stories!

House alarm, towels, sewage, wow, eww and eww.
Regarding the towel incident, glad you didn't decide to counter-offer Tammy. Would it have been at half-off?

Makeba, that would've been too funny! Your herbal negotiations probably would have consisted of beans, papers, dimes & nickels lol.

It's interesting to note that a country that allows us to engage in these types of endeavors (real estate) in a positive aspect, on the flip side allows for people to live pretty much in any way they see fit.

Don't forget to be thankful for what you have.

I knew there had to be a lot of stories, because there are ALL kinds of people out there.

Makeba, I can just see you freaking out at the house. That is classic! And the guy smoking weed, LOL, did you get that deal? EEEWWWWW on the sewage!

Carol, now that would have scared the living daylights out of me too! Wow!

Karen, I remember you telling me about that one! Classic!

Erik, just a small problem. It was probably so saturated!

Keep the stories coming!

THE FOLLOWING HAPPENED OVER THE PAST 48 HOURS BETWEEN MYSELF AND DG FAMILY MEMBER LOUNCE RUCKER:
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HEY GANG, An Apology is in order here to Lounce Rucker and I want to put it out to all of you. I replied back a question about the properties he posted the other day. Under his name of LOUNCE RUCKER IS DINK HOLDINGS, which is the name of his company. I DID NOT have my glasses on and I saw the Dink name as (BLANK)! as his name, THEN I MISSPELLED IT and it came out like I was calling him a (BLANK) : As thought I was calling him a (BLANK). I went and formally apologize to him in on the Facebook Blog! That's just not me and those of you who know that can attest to it. Yet, it happened and he has been EXTREMELY PROFESSIONAL in his contact to me in questioning my motivation for call him that/making such a reference. Also, since then he and his wife and I talked for 30-40 minutes and have exchanged the NCND. FOR YOU NEWBIES that stands for Non Compete/Non Disclosure Agreement. Also some just call them a NdA for Non Disclosure Agreement.

Even as i type this, the font size is very small for reading and this is not the first time I've goofed because of not wearing my glasses. But it is the first time it carried any personal ramifications! Be careful If this were to happen between myself and a client in some form, it might not have been forgiven so willingly and cheerfully!

Glad it worked out in the end.
For future reference, if you're a PC user you can hold down the "ctrl" key and use your mouse wheel up/down to increase/decrease font size on most sites.

Good luck!

I like how it turns d*ck into (BLANK). That is funny Joseph, I'm glad it all worked out ok and he understood. The joys of getting older!

yes it is always good to be professional and to not judge someone right away. Sounds like you were both professional and so smoothed over what could have gone in a completely different direction.

an agent gave me the lock code to. I went inside and looked around. All checked out fine until I got to the backyard where a big raccoon had taken up residence. I didn't attempt to go in the backyard, raccoons can be viscious!

Just imagine the mess and clutter...trying to step over 'things' and to then be told "I lost a snake a few weeks ago and can't find it, tell me if you see it"

Go get your time portal! Did he tell you what year?