Mine installed a pegboard in the pantry. It’s incredibly useful for hanging up pots and pans.
The owner we bought from had been divorced and was so depressed he neglected the yard and house. I am grateful they didn’t change the insane layout, so it didn’t sell, because apparently nobody else saw the potential - we changed it when we moved in, and dealt with the yard, once the bamboo was out (that was a struggle) it was huge, and while house is not fancy and will doubtless be a lifelong project it is so nice now for us, and getting better all the time and I love the basic layout of it now.
left a pullup bar in the garage, use it pretty often
In my previous house, the previous owners left a folder with information about various known quirks, which came in handy. They also left a manuals for things like the stove and fireplace, as well as contact info for contractors they had used over the years. It ended up being a sort of owner’s manual for the house that we really appreciated. We did the same when we moved out.
My current house… There’s an under-cabinet CD player/radio in the kitchen that I almost never use, and the previous owners left the soundtrack to the Trolls movie in it, so I guess there’s that?
BECAUSE SINGING KILLED MY GRANDMA OKAY
How the fuck do yall afford houses?
They had me. Right now I’m back at my parents’ house.
Kept the left over floor tiles. Nearly 30 years later I needed to replace one, had a box ready to go.
Remember folks, you’re supposed to leave extra shit like this behind for exactly this reason
In the living room they routed audio cables through the walls for a surround sound system
Patched CAT6 cable to nearly every room in the house. WIFI is good these days but still cant compete with good ol ethernet.
They planted two plum trees and one cherry tree. I picked so many plums this year. Still have a bunch on the freezer ready to go in pies. Made two batches of slivovice moonshine back in the fall just so they wouldn’t go to waste.
As a kid we moved into a house in the middle of winter, the previous owner had left the fire ready to go, including matches and a couple days worth of wood.
Man, so many things.
They fully remodeled it in 2016, and by virtue of being stupid rich, left it fully furnished and equipped. To them it was just a line on their balance sheet that they wanted liquidated. To me, it was an extra $10,000 I didn’t have to spend on furniture and appliances.
Mine hired a bad realtor who listed the house poorly. It means we didn’t compete with cash offers and could actually buy the house.
My friend got his townhouse that way. It was a pretty decent place, and nobody was interested because there were, like, 2 almost-identical exterior shots, maybe one of the kitchen? and 5 from the master bedroom. None from the living room or anything like that
Mine had a single grainy outside shot, worse than Google Street view at the time and called it a contractors special. They essentially put all the red flags they could in the listing, for what was a very manageable purchase (yes we did the flooring before we moved in, and fixed some walls, but we were looking at full guts before, just to get anything.)
I wish there was a website listing bad or lazy realtors.
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My apartment used to be owned by a landlord cop who moved to Florida. So I appreciate that he reduced the population of landlord cops in my area by 1
A COP AND LANDLORD?
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Bruh, that’s terrifying. Imagine how much surveilance they put in the house, knowing the cops be weird af and want to spy on people all the time.
NYC’s mayor is literally one. Turns out landlords and cops both enjoy abusing people to their benefit
You would think… An ex of mine had a cop for landlord for a while. He neglected to change the keys after the previous really sketchy tenants. Guess who got burglarized. And yet they never found the culprits, not recovered the items.
Soundproofing in the wall shared with next door unit. Like, really good soundproofing. I can’t recall hearing anything from them ever.
Bad landlord move: IDK WTF they were thinking with the shower. There are SO MANY little nooks and crannies that are narrower than a pencil. I spray so much crap in there trying to prevent mold. I hate it. Landlord is lucky I’m a diligent tenant, most would let his bathroom rot, it takes so much work to keep it clean. When I build a house the shower will be SO SMOOTH and I’m going to lay it out so I can just plug in a power washer and spray it down.
Fill them with clear silicone caulk.
Fuck if I know. These people were idiots and did so many stupid things
Hello fellow sufferer. May your future surprises be boring.
I suffer with you. This is my first place so I didn’t have as good an eye of what to look out for. Now after having lived in this place for a while I realize the previous owner took a lot of shortcuts and did a really crappy “remodel” job.
I’m pretty sure my house got flipped by some DIY morons
