I love real estate… without it I couldn’t come up with all of these crazy stories that I like to share with you! (nope…it’s all real! I couldn’t make it up!)

Yesterday my husband Tim & I went out and previewed 16 houses for the Blue Jeans Rehab Bus Trip that starts Friday evening, and in the garage of one of the Bank Owned/REO properties, we stepped into the garage and here was a stripped our car! (that’s me giving the listing agent the VIN number so she could call the police)

This car was completely stripped out: steering column busted, radio gone, NoS system gone (nitrous oxide…makes it go really fast!) obviously the wheels, and all of the interior panels were ripped out and they even slashed the seats up! I immediately called the listing agent and asked if she KNEW there was a car in the garage and of course, she said no. The crazy thing is that she said the house had been shown several times and nobody else even mentioned the car!

She reported it to the police and had to meet them out there to let them in (Tim & I didn’t stick around… to much to do! although we were curious. Oh well. But we DID tell the listing agent to tell them that we did NOT touch anything!)

I’m going to turn this into a real estate lesson,of course

If you are EVER in any house and see ANYTHING that looks out of the ordinary, report it to the listing agent IMMEDIATELY. Don’t wait, just pick up the phone and dial it now.

We’ve seen: Dogs tied up in the back yard of an abandoned house with no food or water (we called Animal control on those… we’ve seen it more than once), fire sprinkler heads in condos covered up with paper cups and tin-foil, evidence of “squatters” and drug use, and now, stolen cars (sorry, ALLEGED stolen cars…)

If it was your listing, you would probably want to be informed, wouldn’t you? do the same for the listing agent on the houses you look at… we all need to help each other out!

P.S. I couldn’t show you a picture of the other side of this car…had bad words spraypainted all over it! We ARE going to this house on the bus trip, so maybe you’ll get to see it if it’s still there! But don’t touch!