House Hunting: Strange, But True: a house log

House hunting has been a lively adventure and, like any adventure, it took some weird twists and turns. So we figured since we highlighted some of our close-but-no-cigar finds (here, here, here, and here) we should take a second to share some of our no-way-no-how finds as well. Because they were in fact fairly darn entertaining.

First, we encountered a mammoth split level. From the outside it looked like your usual split-level home. Until we got inside and realized it had SIX floors. Yes, six. That is six times the number of levels we are right now used to. Granted the top (attic) and bottom (basement) were not entirely wrapped up, but still – wow. You can thank my brilliant artist’s rendering below to roughly show you how it was laid out:

Then there was the dark house. Not “this does not get quite much natural light” dark. This was “um, there is no electricity” dark. When we arrived the realtor discovered that the power was not working – whether from the owner not paying the bills or from a storm earlier that day we will never know. But bless her heart, the agent was determined to show the house to us anyways. So we busted out our cell phones as flashlights (it was about 6pm on a cloudy day, so there was not much natural light to speak of) and we walked through carefully. In the end, we think the darkness likely did the house a favor because it did not appear to be quite clean.

And speaking of clean… there was also the house where the owner’s idea of staging was to leave her shoe collection scattered across the master bedroom floor. Picture piles of high heels everywhere (sort of like the pic below, but not running shoes and not nearly as orderly). We could not even step into the room because of the mess. Perhaps they were trying to impress us with how many shoes they could afford?

Now I am sure we are not the only ones with crazy house hunting stories, so we cannot wait to hear what you folks have encountered. Is not it remarkable what some people consider “designed to sell”? What craziness have you seen? And have you checked out this site? Oh the hilarity.

Dark room photo from here, shoe photo from here.

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