Event most likely to make $100,000.00 vanish instantly...

[Hugin]

Poll question: Event most likely to make $100,000.00 vanish instantly...

on a Real Estate deal.

Feel free to add your own.

[Graybeard]

1. Learn house was built on native american burial ground....

..."They're here"!

[Hugin]

6. But, but, but... They're benevolent spirits!

Really.

A couple of beers and they're fine with it.

:rofl:

[matcom]

2. the Lender just announced they are out of $$ (happening to me RIGHT NOW)

x(

i work for a broker (in IT). i'm allowed to do my own loans on the side and Mrs Matcom's cousin refinanced an investment property (signed yesterday)

the loan was supposed to fund today. the Lender (i'll not name names) announced at midnight they were broke.

this isn't for 100k, rather 300k!

time to job-hunt again OUT of this industry

[Hugin]

5. Yikes!

I'm truly sympathetic to your plight matcom!

[KitchenWitch]

16. OH FUCK!

:scared:

[matcom]

17. gets worse

the lender won't answer emails or phone calls

[KitchenWitch]

18. That is just pure evil!

I am so sorry.

[Little Wing]

3. lotion in a basket

[Hugin]

4. I sense an interesting story here...

:rofl:

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

7. It puts the lotion on the skin or else it gets the hose again!

[Hugin]

8. !

:rofl:

What prompted this thread is I watched one of those true life forensic shows
last night during a bout with insomnia.

Someone in San Diego had stashed two mummies in cardboard boxes at his ex-girlfriend's
parent's garage.

They found them 20 years later doing a spring cleaning.

The pair of mummies were ancient, but, that fact wasn't obvious at first.

[Rabrrrrrr]

9. Waterford mouthwash decanters in bathroom discovered to be just old cashew jars

[Hugin]

11. What about the 14th century commode?

Was it real... or just a clever fake using plywood and an old rusty bucket?

[Richardo]

10. Crime scene tape clumsily hidden behind padlocked, upright freezer

[Hugin]

13. or...

A barely readable 'Hazmat Disposal Area' sign on a chain link fence next to the
charming burbling stream feeding the little pond over the septic tank.

:lol:

[NC_Nurse]

12. The smell....

ANY bad smell really...but especially the dead thing smell. :scared:

[Hugin]

14. oh, *that* smell...

It only happens when the garbage disposal is turned on.

or...

The showers.

or...

Just open a couple of windows. It'll go away quickly.

:haha:

[ileus]

15. A car pulls up and people start fighting out in the street.

A friend of mine just sold his home in Ga, and this happened to him kinda. He poured a glass of wine and went out on the poarch to wait for the agent and buyers to arrive. He'd no sooner went out than a car stopped in the street and started yelling at the neighbors soon there was a fight right there infront of his house. Cops arrived and arrested a few people and everything went back to normal. His neighbor yelled over when is the agenting showing up. Two seconds later they pull up and the first question out of the buyers mouth was "Is this a quiet neighborhood?"

[Nikia]

19. Mold infestation

And by that I mean serious mold infestation, not just the carpets and window frames.
The house next door to my inlaws had its price dropped by more than half when this problem was discovered.

[kwassa]

20. The current housing market

Many have seen $100,000 disappear, though over a year, not instantly. Some have lost much more than that.

Too many sellers chasing too few buyers.

[Fawkes]

21. A big pile of mud in the front yard that had recently slid from the hill behind the house.

:scared:

Especially if you can see the neighbor's house peeking out of the mud.

:scared:

[LSK]

22. talk about the murder/mass suicidie that happened in the living room

And strange goings on ever since.

:D

[Hugin]

23. That hardly ever happens anymore. Since the exorcist...

burned the orignial structure down with his dad-blamed candles.

I tell ya...

:eyes:

[xchrom]

24. me.

[Nicole]

25. Cigarette butts in the ashtray,

Olive Garden takeout boxes in the refrigerator & nursing pads anywhere in the house.

:hide:

[BlueJazz]

26. As the Buyers are coming down the sidewalk they hear...

..(from your nextdoor neighbor)

"FUCK YOU BITCH!!...I"LL BEAT YOUR ASS AND THE KIDS ANY DAMN TIME I FEEL LIKE IT.!"