Real estate broker Michelle Libby found anything odd sticking out from beneath the bed addresses in a dwelling she was advertising as she took a photographer via the residence.
It turned out to be a gun, and she believed it was put there deliberately.
“It was pointing to the bedroom door,” mentioned Libby, a broker with Century 21 North East in Portland, “and it wasn’t there the previous time I was at the home.”
The operator experienced died, and his ex-spouse was promoting the household. The sale became messy, she stated, for the reason that not all of his family members was joyful with how the house and possessions have been likely to be divided.

Issues worsened a 7 days later on, when a neighbor termed to convey to her a truck experienced backed up to the dwelling and goods have been getting eradicated. As it turned out, extended family customers who realized the place the keys had been resolved to assist by themselves to some of the home’s contents, Libby explained.
“They ended up looting,” she mentioned. “I informed them they essential to disclose what they had been getting to the seller.”
Even even though this situation transpired two yrs ago, it was not associated to the strain of the pandemic nor the scorching authentic estate market place, Libby said. Brokers have typically operate into strange circumstances in their careers for the reason that purchasing or offering a house is demanding at any time and some persons acquire advantage of an vacant property.
A single widespread concept is encountering people today who considered they were being by yourself in the for-sale residence.
Jeff Meteja, a broker at Keller Williams in Scarborough, knocked on a door several periods, and when no a person answered he employed the key to allow himself and a possible customer inside of. They speedily found out two amorous young adults.
“They did not listen to the auto in the driveway or the knocking,” he reported. “They however had been clothed, nevertheless.”
That’s not usually the scenario. Run-ins with bare individuals are common, which is why it is essential to always knock, Libby explained.
When she took an investor to a multi-unit creating in Lewiston that was supposed to be empty, she didn’t imagine twice about the bicycle outside right up until she and her client went within. There was noise on the 2nd floor that speedily subsided.
When she and her shopper went upstairs, they opened a closet in one of the bedrooms and identified a bare male within who did not belong there. He was continue to soaked from using a shower.
“My shopper stated ‘let’s go’ and we walked out,” Libby stated. “You don’t know what you are going to walk into.”
Yet another naked male greeted her when she rang the doorbell of a property she was selling in Falmouth. All over again, she and her shopper walked absent.
“I referred to as the proprietor,” Libby said. “She explained she was so sorry. It was her boyfriend.”
In a more rural condition, just one Realtor took a mom and daughter to a smaller log dwelling in the woods. They were being about an hour late and forgot to get in touch with the listing agent to see if it was still all right to visit the home.
As they drove down the gravel travel toward the home, Realtor Jeff Jolicoeur of Century 21 in Waterville spotted a nude male lying on the front porch sunbathing. He didn’t budge as the vehicle approached and parked nearby.
“My consumer seemed around at me, and her deal with reported it all,” Jolicoeur explained to Maine Real estate agent journal. “It was a blend of bewilderment, surprise, disgust and…humor.”
Realtors also have uncovered factors still left driving by former owners when the new homeowners are accomplishing the closing walkthrough. Libby explained she and her customer, both of those dressed in business attire, had to enable a Portland house owner empty a packed basement promptly before the scheduled closing on the home the identical day.
For Carmen McPhail, a broker at United County Lifestyle Qualities of Maine, it was anything the new owners located in a couch left at the rear of.
They requested her to come back again shortly soon after they entered their new house in Enfield. It experienced been vacant for a even though besides for a couple of items of home furnishings, such as the couch.
“There was a pet boa constrictor in the sofa,” reported McPhail, whose to start with story initially appeared in Maine Real estate agent. “The proprietor, who experienced moved abroad, assumed it experienced escaped. My partner and the seller’s agent set the boa into an aquarium and it went to a reptile rescue in Houlton. It has been rehomed.”
But not all the unexpected experiences of brokers are amusing. Libby reported agents, who typically meet potential consumers in vacant homes, can be at hazard. In one instance, a person known as expressing he represented a consumer seeking to see a church she was brokering.
Libby felt a thing wasn’t very suitable about his tale, and asked a colleague to verify out the particular person on Forewarn, a real estate protection assistance. The look for stated he had many felony convictions.
“I was totally shaken and did not satisfy with him,” she explained. “Realtors are extremely susceptible. I never post open houses on the web any longer.”