DREAM HOME OR SNAKE DEN?
The seemingly perfect five-bedroom home, set on pastoral acreage in the countryside, seemed to be the perfect new home for Ben and Amber and their growing family, especially at less than $180,000! But not too long after settling in, the couple discovered their “dream home” was actually a snake den — infested with hundreds and hundreds of garter snakes. They crawled beneath the outer walls, and the couple would lie awake, unable to sleep with the sound of all that hissing and slithering in the walls. Now that’s the stuff of a horror movie! Eventually, they couldn’t take it anymore, and even though they waged war against these creatures, who seemed to think the home was theirs, they lost, and had to flee their “dream” home. So, what happened? It turns out that even though they had signed a document that noted a snake infestation, their agent assured them, and reassured them, that the snakes were just a story made up by the previous owners, who had defaulted on their mortgage. In the end, the couple had to file for bankruptcy and the house was repossessed, and they left right after their daughter was born, after just three months of living there (and three months of hell living with and fighting off snakes).
Key Takeaway:
The moral of the story here is to hire a buyer’s agent who cares more about his/her client’s best interests than about selling a particular home (in this case, the agent flat-out lied), as well as to have your own thorough home inspection done by a professional (the couples chose to ignore this step and trusted the agent was
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