Topic: Stuff you have found in your newly purchased home???

[my78k]

Ok I was going to put this in the SPBT but thought better of it as it will get lost in the thousands of scrolling posts and Haiku's lol...actually this topic is nearly as shameless but after the discovery I had the other day I figured I would ask around to see if it is just my luck or have others been through this as well....

So a year and a half ago we bought another house. The old one was getting too small and I was salivating at the thought of a double garage and a pool! Anyways, I won't bore you with all of the stuff I have gone through with it (I knew it was a fixer upper but had NO IDEA what I had gotten myself into!). So, when we moved in we spent the first few days just trying to make the place safe. There was obviously a previous mouse infestation with TONS of mouse droppings EVERYWHERE!!!! There were more pills than you could shake a stick at...primarily Oxycotin and various high grade pain killers (the cop who lives next door confirms they were avid drug users and even did some minor pedalling). Well as we were cleaning and moving our stuff in we find in the bedroom closet the skanky previous owner's dildo! Sitting right there on a shelf!! Oh, did I mention that we have also since found out that the previous owners BOTH had Hep C? Anyways, fast forward a year and a half and the place is finally starting to feel like home. We have done a bunch of work on it and can have friends and family over without being embarassed!

Well, the other day my outside faucet springs a leak (the faucet had frozen up and popped the seal and when it warmed up it started gushing). Well I go looking for a shut off for it and can't find one anywahere...So I go into the basement closet which has a piece part ceiling of drywall and give it a yank so I can see if they are hidden behind there....well out falls a plastic bag! I gingerly open it only to find it is yet another sex toy!!! This one is for a guy however and is shaped like a...uhm...well....vagina. EWWWW!!!!!!  For crying out loud I feel like I am starting all over and am afraid to look anywhere else for fear of what else I may find. Oh yeah we discovered more than one dead dog buried in the backyard last summer too. Apparently it appears as though it took atleast two drownings before the previous owners smartened up and put a fence around the pool plus they were too lazy/cheap to give the dogs a proper burial (keep in mind this is a subdivivion and NOT a 10 acre property!!!

Anyways, if any of you would like to chime in so I don't feel like the only one to have bought a house with "history" I would greatly appreciate it!!! Tell me the whackiest stuff you have found....please!

Dennis

[ProTeal55]

When I moved into my dads building I cleaned out 25 years of crap outta the garage and found a machette type knife/killing sword thing with a blade that measured almost 3feet !
The scarry part, it looked to have dried blood on it !

[Gordon]

This wasn't a house I purchased, but rented in Austin, TX for a couple of years.  The previous tenant had been evicted for drug use and leaving lit candles on the window sills when he was out.  After living there for a couple of months I went up into the attic and found three bed sheets, tied into makeshift bags, full of women's shoes (mostly fancy types).  The weird thing is there wasn't a matching pair to be found, and they were all for the left foot.

[Soos]

Found needles in a apartment I once rented in a ex-dorm house on ft. collins.

In Chicago, I found 100.00 bill wrapped around a nug of REALLY dry chronic once in another apartment.
Found a roach of a huge joint in a fireplace of another apartment in wyoming.


In my house, I found a antique quilt building frame, and a antique woodworkers level with lots of wear to it.
Might pass them along with the house when I sell it, unless I find a market for them and can get some $ outta them.


l8r

[Spikeybike]

when i bought my first house , it was a wrech of a place,  the PO didn't like how the cold air returns for the furace, were kinda breezy in the winter , so they PLUGGED THEM WITH INSULATION !!!!  all the way to the furnace !!!  what a PITA that was to fix .  holy #$%*      and in the attic there was a 3x3x3 safe chained to the wall ,     so i'm thinkin JACKPOT

i bring the safe to work, cut it open ,   and what i thought was jewelry was really .....bullets    .38 caliber hollowpionts. (this is where i should mention i cut the safe open with a torch   )   and a BIG bag of weed, a scale , and a little book with a bunch of phone #'s in it .....  uh oh    

no one ever came looking for any of that stuff,  i thought about smoking the pot, but ended up trading it to a buddy in exchange for some drywall work ,  

we won't even talk about the basment flooding with poo  

[my78k]

LMAO!! Thanks guys this is actually helping...oh and as for the safe yeah we have one of those too. It is built into the floor of the basement and covered by our freezer. The PO left the combo for us to use but unfortunately that was empty!!

Dennis

P.S. please keep the stories coming!

[j-conn]

friends of fam found a skeleton in their basement. he named its ghost bill and used it as leverage with his kids.
eat your beans or bill will come upstairs
clean your room or bill will come upstairs
wash the car or .... you get the pic

guess dude was murdered in a by jelous lover. 20 years befor.

[Bob Wessner]

You folks have moved into some colorful digs. Beats anything we ever found.

[333]

I found everything I expected.  My Mom moved into independent living and we moved in.  Found 46 years of crap.  But I didn't find that watch my Mom took from me and hid when I was 10.

[void909]

When my mom bought her first house I was 16. We moved in only to find the previous owner was a fan of ice. The house came with 3 ice makers, one being crushed ice which i loved and used avidly. After many cold drinks one day i was scooping my cup in to get a glass when i hit something hard. I reached in and pulled out a huge bottle of wine that had been in there for god knows how long. needless to say my 16 year old girlfriend and I drank the whole bottle that night. It made me so sick i haven't drank wine since. Not as odd as a dildo but...

[bunghole]

....well out falls a plastic bag! I gingerly open it only to find it is yet another sex toy!!! This one is for a guy however and is shaped like a...uhm...well....vagina.

So....


How was it

[my78k]

LMFAO!!!!!!     

No there was no way in hell I was going to use it! I even grabbed some gloves from my first aid kit to wear while disposing of it! I did toy with the idea of boiling it and then taking and gluing it to the windsheild of a buddy's car!

Dennis

[Caaveman82]

Stuff that fake vag in the gas door so when he goes to fill up... oh man that would be priceless.


Any way when I was a kid I worked for the town house management doing turn overs on the places. We found all sorts of crap in these places it was horrrrrible.

*50k stuffed in a wall behind the fridge (which he had to turn over to the police)
*a closet full of dead kittens (about 12)
*used needles and a couple of sandwhich bags full of heroin
*found a sawed off shotgun INSIDE of a dude's water heater wrapped in plastic and taped up profusely
*more upper decks then I wish to remember

Okay so if that was not enough here was the best or uhm weirdest I spose is more fitting. There was this place it was an end unit right next to the forest line and the guy that moved out was a real creeper. So we go in and the place is spotless. Completely clean. We were shocked. He had been by his place a couple of times and it was a pit. So we start going down the check list and we notice that the wood trim around the carpet was not the standard issue stuff. So we had to replace it. We start pulling it out and in the four corners of his living room there was some nasty mold growing behind the trim. So we pulled up the corners of the carpet to see if we needed to replace it.... we found four rotting human fingers. So freakin gross. Naturally we called the cops. Turns out this guy was into drugs, they took over the appartment for a crime scene and ended up finding KILOS of coke in the walls. They also tracked down the poor sap that stiffed this guy and lost four fingers...

Crazy

[Pinhead]

I never found anything quite as exciting as you guys, but when we moved my grandma out of her place we had to empty 2 deep freezes in the basement. They were iced solid about half-way up. Once thawed, they revealed some interesting foods that were labeled with dates. Pickled pigs feet from 1971, head cheese from 1968, and the best, blood pudding from 1965!

The really bad part is once we threw all of the stuff out and got the place cleaned all up (took a while) she came over and threw a hissy fit 'cause we threw out all of her "good" food!!

[ken736cc]

The seller of my first house left a 1933 La Salle chassis in the garage and all the fenders and doors in the shed.  It was in sore need of restoration. After much begging, he picked up the rolling chassis and moved it to his property next door. He never came for the sheet metal, so I sold them through Hemmings Motor News. This was before e bay.
The owners before him left a huge pile of 78 and 45 records in another shed. These were all in Hungarian.

[jh_molleck]

this past summer my dad and i were rewiring my house, and found a med. sized camera bag on top of the duct work in the basement... it was full of old 50s and 60s porno (maybe older, but not sure)

they are little comic books of graphic porn... i looked online to see if they were collectors but couldn't find much other than they are old Taiwan Bibles... they are pretty entertaining to flip through... but the funny thing is, we know who's they were because the elderly couple that used to live there were the original owners of the house and built it back in the 50s when they were first married... also in the bag were hand written (and some typed out) short stories, they are very detailed in wording 

[tramp]

local radio guy was talking about when his father died they found hundreds of old porno video's
kinda put's a spin about how you feel about your father

[my78k]

Well I am certainly starting to feel better about my place! I gotta admit that we haven't found any rotting fingers (yet) and I guess that makes the half dozen or so mice skeletons seem a little better!

Dennis

[UnCrash]

My first house wasn't fully cleaned out by the PO...  He was a reloader and I found lots and lots of hollow point bullets  about 25 lbs. some with hand cut crosshairs in them?  I was going to throw them out, then thought better of it.... can you imagine those things going through the incinerator?  I called the local police and they regretably took them. 

One day about 3 years after owning the place I put a ladder up into the loft of the shed to store something up there.  I had never walked around up there at all...  So I climb up through this little doorway and found leaning against the wall a really nice birds eye maple single bed head and foot board with rails.

I was mowing my lawn there and one day hit a piece of metal.  It was a little curled up  flat 1/8" and pretty rusty.  I yank on it but its not budging.  So I get the shovel out and dig around it.... clang.  I dig and dig and pull out an old truck transmission.

[Bob Wessner]

OK, while digging the foundation for an addition, we found a rusty mule shoe. It seems when they built our orig. house, power excavation wasn't in vogue yet. They simply went back and forth with a team of mules with a scraper blade until they reached the right depth.

Pretty boring, huh?

[Frankenkit]

this past summer my dad and i were rewiring my house, and found a med. sized camera bag on top of the duct work in the basement... it was full of old 50s and 60s porno (maybe older, but not sure)

they are little comic books of graphic porn... i looked online to see if they were collectors but couldn't find much other than they are old Taiwan Bibles... they are pretty entertaining to flip through... but the funny thing is, we know who's they were because the elderly couple that used to live there were the original owners of the house and built it back in the 50s when they were first married... also in the bag were hand written (and some typed out) short stories, they are very detailed in wording 

Tijuana bibles go for a LOT to the right people.

[nickjtc]

So if I said that we had our heating ducts cleaned out after we bought the place and found a few wax crayons and some kids toys, you wouldn't be impressed....??

[74cb750]

1st house.
3 brakers for whole house with 3 foot extention cords everywhere, most cut and spliced with paper tape. A wonder it didn't go up in flames.
found: newspapers from 1929-32 used for insulation, canning jars from 1950 with prunes, 55 gallons of hot pink paint, nothing of value.

my second house....2nd floor had dog stuff on floors, every, & i mean every inch of sheetrock had permanent marker drawings, 1,000's of flies/bugs, "walls" were the dividers you find in offices, electrical wires were reversed many times over and 5 different gauges, roof joists were 24" on center-20 foot long 2x6's and sagging, wet and moldy..
needless to say everything from 2nd story floor joists, walls, insulation, electircal, windows, roof completed torn off and junked/replaced.

Found: in yard car parts, broken tools/metal, aluminum 8 foot wood sled, toys, garbage etc , enough to fill 2+ tractor trailer loads!

unbelieveable, but I did get a good price on it.
peace,
michel

[BobbyR]

I bought my house from an Estate. The kids were fighting like cats and dogs over the money, and braking my balls to boot. I was wiring in some clandestine cable connections when I found some Gay Porn on top of a beam. I divided it equally and sent it to each kid with a note saying, I am sure you Dad wanted you all to have equal shares. 

[754]

LMAO @ that one..