Houses, apartments, condos, & other homes that made you go EEEK!

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[Cpogie]

Oh my gosh, what a great post Jude. We had our own challenge in 2001. We had just bought a real fixer upper while our other house was up for sale. The new house was so bad neither one of us could stomach to go there for 4 months, then we had to get moving or we would of been moving into a real dump.
Everything was so aweful you just didn't know where to start, the house was built in 1947 and claimed to have a new kitchen, the cabinets were totally home made and no lie, were put up with 2 inch brad nails. CROSS MY HEART, so you can only imagine how bad the cabinets were, nothing was level. lol the memories!! I could pull the cabinets off the wall with one hand. I tore the entire kitchen out using only a hammer, that was so I could pull out 2,000 brad nails in the walls. We completely stripped the kitchen, we moved the plumbing, I moved the electrical and had a cabinet maker come in and made me the most beautiful kitchen all hand made for $7,000. DH stripped the woodwork and put in a new brick fireplace. I plastered new walls, sanded, painted, made curtains for the whole house. When we were done it was the most adorable house on the block. We stayed there just 2 years but we made $150,000 profit on it.

[erikad332]

Years ago when my ex and i were still married we went out looking for houses, our realtor pulled us up to one and I knew the instand i saw the outside that there is no way i wanted this house but was told i had to go in anyway. First of all the yard looked like the local trash dump, but when we went inside, I figured out why i did not like it. It was remodled on the inside. they added a second floor that did not look all that stable to me in the first place but we were told to go upstair and look around. The only bathroom was on the first floor next to the kitchen and the back door. Needless to say we did not get that house.

It still amazes me, if your trying to sell your home, first thing to do would be to clean it and make the appliances look decent. fix broken burners and put the drip pans in. that woud be cheap, but very good selling point.

Erika

[ALawicki]

About a year ago my boyfriend, my friend, and I moved into a townhouse close to our college. Well everything was going ok, then the friend started to go out ALOT and she eventually moved out. Well we thought everything would be ok, but then around Halloween something horrible happened. We were really good friends with our neighbors and the people next to them (we knew our other neighbors pretty well also and they were all guys so they watched out for us girls when our guys were not home). Well I had worked late doing a party and got home at about 12:30am. I went in and my boyfriend was asleep so I took my time going to bed and went to say hi to the neighbors and came back. About an hour later our neighbors were calling me like crazy. So finally they left a voicemail. I listened to it. I knew something was wrong when I could tell she was crying really bad. So I called her back. They had witnessed 5 guys that lived in the building of townhouses next to us raping a girl in their car! They were just driving around in circles in the parking lot raping her in the car! Well they tried to stop it and when they did the driver pulled out a gun on them! Well our neighborhood was supposedly the gang's headquarters (they had income based housing on the otherside of the little road and we had no idea of this until after we moved in) We knew that these guys were in the gang, but never thought anything of it. Well they called the police and the police came and busted them for underage drinking and all this bs and searched their apartment. That took them about an hour! THEN they went to look for the car and the girl. Well the girl didn't press charges so all they could do was charge the driver. The next morning that same car is sitting outside their townhouse right down from us. To them we were guilty by assosication. We went and told the people in the front office about it and how scared we were because they had already harassed us that morning. Well the lady from the office decides she wants to come talk to us after we left the office and we are all packing our stuff to leave for the weekend and figure out what we are going to do. Well she sees the guy come and yell at us again, so she calls the police and forces us to file a harrassment claim. I didn't want apart of it but the cop said if I left I could be charged for leaving! The news got ahold of our reports and called all of us to do a story, we refused but some girl that was a firend of a friend that was there did it! We couldn't go outside. They started stalking us and everything. The police wouldn't come around because they asked what color they were wearing and when we said blue they knew they were in the gang. Well the office wouldn't let us out of our leases because they weren't responsible for our safety. I didn't want them to protect us, just let us leave when our lives were in danger. We ended up having to pay $1000 just to break our lease, plus 2 months rent, so it costed us about $2500!! They NEVER told anyone in the place what happened so when we moved people asked why since we had just moved in and we explained. I can't believe they wouldn't tell anyone. People's children walked around that place. Our apartments now let us know if someone's car got broke into, these people didn't tell anyone about a rape and an assault with a deadly weapon that happened 20 ft from peoples doors!:eek:

[ALawicki]

What a raw deal! And a scary experience! They don't have adequate security or policing, and they punish you, when there's documented proof of the danger in their complex. They force you to file a complaint, which increases your danger, then they make you pay to escape that increased danger. What an immoral leasing outfit! :mad: May they be forced to live in their own accommodations some day, the owners on down through the "management" chain.

Well the people that own it don't even live in our state. And they gave the guys who did it 30 days to get out even though NONE of them were on the lease and the person on the lease didn't even live there. I was SO mad. I just know that it will come back on them in the future.