What's the worst/most ridiculous thing you've found when you got the keys to your property?

[xandersmom2]

We got the keys to our new house last week, getting ready to move in later this week.

So far we've discovered:

• they only left us half a set of keys. When we questioned we were told 'oh, we never had a key to the back garage door or the patio doors in the living room'. Eh? They lived there 5 years!! No real biggie, locksmith has already been to drill them out and replace them. But honestly.....
• random boxes of trash in the loft
• the integrated fridge freezer doesn't work. When we questioned this (we wondered if we needed to flick a switch or a breaker to make it work) the vendor immediately 'lawyered up' and we got a call from his solicitor to say 'nowhere in the contract does it say the fridge freezer is in working order so we're not fixing it'

None of these is going to spoil the joy of us finally getting our own home, but it got me wondering: what's the worst/most ridiculous thing you've found when you got the keys to your new home?

Lots and lots of Jesus on the cross statues.. creepy as hell. All kinds of sizes, must've been about 30 of them

Two dead reptiles in the garage, which later turned out to have a completely rotten roof due to being used to breed said reptiles.

4 years later, the previous owner still appears to have left a lot of debt behind.

A lot of dodgy DIY, resulting in a complete re-wire. When we got the boiler replaced, the plumber asked if we had fitted it ourselves. We told him we hadn’t, but we thought we knew who had...

A stack of gay porn, dirty underpants and chinchilla shit everywhere.

I moved into a house and the oven didn't work, they'd also stuck the drawer fronts to the cupboard. So when you pulled the drawer the whole front came off!

A tiger skin in the loft.

I'd have loved to find a friendly Rottie!

A half eaten pizza. No keys at all.

Strange hooks hanging from the ceiling and floor to ceiling mirrors in the main bedroom - the OH of the previous owners job was a prison officer.......

Loads in this house:

• A number of missing keys including to the integral garage and one of the patio doors.
• Integrated fridge part of the fridge freezer didn’t work (found that out after putting a big shop in there and it all being ruined).
• Integrated freezer being so iced up you couldn’t have fitted anything in it.
• Mouldy toilet rolls underneath the leaky bathroom sink.
• Leaky bath overflow, had a deep bath which then leaked all over the living room ceiling.
• Shower heads so mouldy I wouldn’t use them and sent DH to B&Q that night.
• Filthy Kitchen cupboards, old cereal left behind, sauce spills left.
• Bras in the wardrobes, old wedding presents, unopened birthday cards and a brand new M&S jumper.

Actually didn’t bother me so much, the last house was much worse!

Discovered on moving in day in August that the previous owner thought they could live in our house for another week on our dime - exactly what we were supposed to do for a week hadn’t entered her head! Our house was full of her stuff until 5pm that day. On arrival, log burner was condemned, boiler pump totally had it so hot water but no heating, and none of the doors shut properly. Upside was she left a load of champagne, spirits and fancy wine - which I’ll enjoy after I’ve given birth in March!

Door from kitchen to living room had been kicked off it's hinges so when I opened it, it fell over and I literally fell on top of it.

Punch hole in the wall of the bedroom.
(Colleague told me later that the previous owner had sadly been in an abusive relationship. The house reflected this, and had happened between us viewing and completing and moving in.)

A poo in the downstairs loo along with a used cat litter tray.

Graffiti on a bedroom wall, where one of the children had written if you are a hot boy then phone this number for a date.

No light bulbs

Bath overflow not connected to anything, only discovered later when water came through the ceiling.

That the waste pipe from the toilets emptied straight into the next door farmer’s field.

Cost £10k to put in proper drainage and septic tank.

The owner.

Messy divorce, he'd been forced to sell by court.

On day of completion our money was transferred over and we went to estate agent who gave us keys.

When we got to house he was there, barricaded in and refusing to leave.

We had to take him to court to evict him and in the meantime he trashed the house.

@MaggieMay23 that wasn't a bungalow in SE London was it? If so..........sorry

Only 1 front door key - apparently the family of 4 consisting of 2 adults an 18 and 16yo shared the same front door key. There is no rear or side access so if you go out the only way back in is through the front door unless you climb the 10ft back wall.
Nuggets of dog food all over the house. Even behind the bath panel.
A turd in the downstairs loo.
A diet plan blu tac'd to bedroom wall. A My weightless chart attached to back of bedroom door ( the diet plan obviously
didnt work as it showed an increase in weight for the first for weeks the chart had been completed).
Fake tan stains on bedroom wall and door.
Broken coat hangers and hairy lipsticks in every built in wardrobe.
Shower tray not actually attached to wall.
Dog toys in pretty much every room.
2 dog tyres on the decking. Kids toys and broken garden equipment all over the decking.
A full dishwasher of stuff of which the cf vendors returned and helped themselves too when we were out the day after completion but 2 hours before our locksmith was booked ro change the locks- obviously using the keys they didnt hand back!!!
Penguin chocolate biscuit wrappers everywhere. We are still finding them 2 years later. In the loft, under carpets, we filled a carrier bag of them when the bathroom was renovated.
Their post continues to be delivered here. 2 years on - we still get bank stuff, medical, college stuff etc.
Oh and I almost forgot the nuts found amongst the Fake coals on the electric lounge fire.

Omg GinnyBaker thatbsounds horrendous! How long did it take to get all that sorted?

These are horrific. I feel lucky, both times we've just been left useful items we didn't expect. Oh actually we did get left an old chair that is too big to take in the car for the tip, and council charge £50 to pick up items so yeah that's still sitting in our driveway until we can be bothered to saw it up

@YCAWS no it was a house in the West Midlands

Bottles of piss in a wardrobe

1st house - absolutely flawless, and although the decor looked a bit tired but was clean as they did a deep clean before moving out. Actually the lady was very friendly from the start, during the viewing stage I was in my late pregnancy and she was aware that I would be having my baby before we moved in. After we moved in, she came around to visit a few times (she moved fairly nearby) to check if we have settled fine.
This house - where to begin! A family of 4 lived here where both the middle aged parents were suffering from serious physical ailments. They had 6 dogs and cats and it appeared that in the last 5 years they had stopped caring to clean the house. The carpet fitters were heaving when they came to fit new carpets, the old one was so caked with hairs, piss and all kinds of filth. Even inside of ward-robes were grimy. I had asked them if they would leave the small fridge and they did leave it but it was FILTHY! I spent close to 2 hours cleaning it. We did a major refurb in the 1st 3 months - changed all flooring, ripped out all the 3 bathrooms/toilet, kitchen, full painting and ripping out the dilapidated garden house. I used to dry heave often while in the house until the carpets were changed. My NDNs were very happy too as now the dogs and cats wont be paying them surprise visits through the short boundary fence between our properties.

A ponytail of waist-length thick, dark blonde hair, which had seemingly been hacked off and left in the kitchen bin.

Years ago, my friend discovered a clearly well-used fleshlight under the bed when he moved into a shared house.

Love that they came back for their lime pickle!
Our boiler pegged out the day we moved in and we didn't have enough money to fix it for months during winter! Front windows which we thought seemed fine turned out to be totally rotton and had to be replaced and generally alot of bogded DIY jobs that we're still working through!

One shoe left in the bedroom, a massive pile of crap at the bottom of the garden including 2 double mattresses, a toilet, 3 Xmas trees and that's just the start! They also left some old flip flops, loads of the kids school work, and the house was generally a complete state even though we were told it would be thoroughly cleaned!

.....cleaning this gap above built in wardrobe. See something up there, looks like a cigar. Put hand in to grab it—-starts vibrating.