Hello everyone and Welcome to another

episode of Selling Greenville your

favorite real estate podcast here in

Greenville, South Carolina, I'm your host

as always Stan McCune realtor right here

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today we're going to have a

light-hearted show last week was a

little bit of a of a heavier one for me

and we and I do you know if you've

been a long time listener like a

two-year listener you know that that

I do a lot of different things with this

show and sometimes it's as simple as

just sharing crazy stories and I feel

like because I've had a bevy of them

lately I feel like it's time to share a

few of the crazy real estate stories

that that I've had the past couple of

years I think that

to me they're they're just interesting

and they're they're fun to tell and

sometimes we just need to hear some of

the crazy things that are happening and

so I'm going to just jump in to we're

just gonna I don't think it's gonna be a

super long episode but just five crazy

real estate stories that have happened

to me lately

and I've named every one of these homes

or places that I went to

gave them all little little pet

names so I hope you guys will will

enjoy this and then next week we'll

we'll have a more Greenville and or

real estate Centric story but to

start off I want to talk about the

doghouse okay

the doghouse so there was a property

that I helped an out-of-town investor

purchase that after they purchased it

they had to evict you know some

people out of it that we're not paying

anything that we're basically squatting

in the house

they had to go through an eviction

and they asked me hey Stan you know we

don't have anyone that can get over

there anytime soon can you go over there

to just check out to see if

everyone has actually left the house

and so

you know of course I agreed to do

That these are the types of things that

Realtors do that we don't get paid for

but that's just that's a part of the job

and it's and I enjoy being able to help

people out with these types of

things and so I went over there and um

this is South Carolina and in South

Carolina, they encourage Realtors to

carry a gun and so most of the time I do

and so I went into the house

did not find anything that was

immediately like

concerning seemed like everyone was out

most of the contents were out and so I

was walking around there were several

different structures on the property and

I come to a

an open shed and it was like okay this

is this is a shed that I think

you know I want to make sure that

there is nothing in here that could be

problematic for this client

but I could just sense something

and so I

I pulled up my my firearm that I

was carrying and just slowly opened the

door to the shed and

I just see eyes flashing at me and I I

hear growling and there is a massive dog

in this shed

and I don't know if it was protecting a

litter or what it might have been

but needless to say it was I thought

that that dog was gonna come after me

and this is the only time that I thought

I might have to use my firearm the only

time in my career that I felt like

okay

I might need to actually discharge

around here

but I backed up slowly

tried to be as you know as unassuming

and as unintimidating as possible to

this crazed dog

and I was able to back out of the

doghouse shed and was able to get to

my truck and get out of there in one

piece

thankfully like I said that was the

only time I've felt really really

threatened and I'm grateful because

there are other people that have

actually been threatened other realtors

that have been threatened by real humans

and whatnot that's that's the worst

that I've ever experienced but the

grossest thing that I've ever

experienced was the next one which is

I can't take credit for this name is

actually the the people that bought this

property from me take credit for the

name but it's the roach motel and this

is the property that I actually

purchased and I did not know that there

was a roach infestation when I purchased

the property

and actually had people living inside

the property when I bought it it was a

duplex and

and you know it was it was in really bad

shape most most of the time in

Greenville when people are selling

duplexes or triplexes or properties like

that they're either selling for absolute

top of the market or there's something

really really wrong with the property

maybe in some cases a combination of

the two of them

in this case the property was a

complete disaster it was really not

inhabitable but sadly there were

people living there and so again

I had my property manager assist them

with with getting them out and and

re-relocating them and then I had to you

know do the standard procedure of

changing out the locks and and doing all

that kind of stuff well my locksmith

called me up and when he was going over

there to change out the locks and he was

just like you have a major Rich problem

on your hands now I had been inside this

property and hadn't seen any roaches

but it was like okay

I'll go check it out just finish

what you're doing and you know I'll be

over there sooner than later and I'll

see what's going on

it was it was absolutely disgusting I've

never seen anything quite like it when I

opened the door

it was literally a waterfall of roaches

like I cannot express how many roaches

there would be and I'm not sure if like

I had the door open for at least a

minute

and there was a constant flow of roaches

falling from the door frame or the

ceiling or something I don't know I

don't know how long it would have been

that I would have left that door open

before the roaches would have stopped

falling and we're not talking about like

one or two roaches falling down we're

talking about like there is I when I

stuck my arm when I opened the door if

the door opened inward I stuck my arm in

there there's roaches dozens of them

bouncing off my arm

um and just as long as I wanted to I

could have experienced that needless to

say I did not want to experience that I

left the door open to to peek in there

to see you know what all is going on in

there for about a minute and then I

was just like shoot I have to close the

store now I have to to get through these

roaches again in order to close the door

that was absolutely disgusting I

hope I never experienced anything like I

mean it's literally like the stuff of

horror movies

and so thankfully

I was able to my pest control guy was

able to get in there and address most of

the roaches I sold the property to to

some to some clients of mine

Ian if you're if you're listening

shout out to you but I sold the

property

and they knew that there was a

roach problem but thankfully it ended up

you know once my pest control guy got in

there once you know all the furniture

and carpet and whatnot was out of it

there was really nothing left for the

roaches to do but to die

and so thankfully it was it was

able to be remedied and it's no

longer the rich Motel now it's a

beautiful duplex that is serving a

great function of providing

affordable housing to the

Greenville area

third crazy crazy home that I went

into was one that was just a recent one

for me and I'm gonna call this one the

Buzzard nest so

this is a house on about an acre of land

in a kind of a unique part of like South

Greenville

and the the full back of the house was

like termite damaged and whatnot which

just was basically falling off the house

and so this was a property that I was

actually going to be listing and so

I wanted to even though it was like more

of a property that we are listing for

the land value more than the house value

I still thought you know there might be

someone that's interested in trying to

bring this house back to life you never

know I've learned over my years dealing

with Real Estate Investors there are

people that believe that they can

do just about anything

so I wasn't sure if we might get

people interested in trying to

revitalize that house but I wanted to

work my way around in it

and so and and familiarize myself

with the house and so I go inside

and I'm just walking around and all of a

sudden I around the corner where towards

the back of the house is falling off

and I come across two adolescent

buzzards

and they look like they're about to

charge me like they start puffing up

their feathers and they're hissing and

you know I've never been around buzzards

before not in that proximity usually

they try to get away from you but in

this case it appears that the parents

had nested in in this house and that

probably when they heard me coming in

the parents abandoned the the babies

which were basically full size but they

were still kind of kind of fuzzy they

still had some of their

baby feathers on

so even though they were full-size

buzzards I could tell that they were

adolescent they probably hadn't learned

how to fly yet or weren't very good at

it

and those things were nasty like I I

wasn't scared but I also didn't know

what they were gonna do like are they

gonna charge me are they gonna try to

Peck out my eyes

I don't know

buzzards are not normally inside of a

house

and so it wasn't quite as as

frightening as you know being in a shed

alone with a dog

but needless to say I did not mess

around with those buzzards I got out of

the buzzer nest and

I let them be I let them have their

their house back

the third crazy sorry the fourth

crazy story that I that I want to

share with you guys is the termite

trailer

and it wasn't really a trailer it was

more like a house

but

this was crazy I I had to call it a

trailer just you know these all

have kind of catchy names and I couldn't

really think of anything better so the

termite trailer it is really it

was just an old house

but it was so eaten by termites so so

I walk in with some clients and I had

red going in that that there were

some rooms that were unsafe and it was

like well I've been in a lot of unsafe

houses before as you can tell from my

stories

and so it's just like okay it can't

be that bad so we walk in everything's

looking pretty standard for an old

house we get to the back of it

and this house is on a tall crawl space

so it didn't have a basement but it

had you know like a like a five foot

crawl space

five foot high

the entire back of the house was so

termite eaten that the floor had fallen

down into the crawl space you can

literally just see

from the hallway you could just see

straight down into the crawl space

it was it was absolutely insane my

client actually wanted to go into the

crawl space so we did

and you know I was able even though

I'm no termite inspector I was able to

see termite damage

just pretty much anywhere that I looked

and I've seen plenty of dilapidated

houses and whatnot but that one was just

crazy from the standpoint of just

walking in and just being able to see

straight down into the crawl space

the way that we did and that was

the direct result of termite damage that

was pretty insane

last but not least I told you guys

this would be a shorter episode you're

you guys are overdue for a shorter

episode

given some of the longer ones that

we've had lately the final one I have

on here is The Walking Dead church this

is this is another one with Ian

Ian we've had a few interesting

experiences if you're listening The

Walking Dead church so

so I there's this church that was listed

a few years ago for really cheap that

was like you know hey I wonder if

there's this opportunity here like not

for the church itself like to try to

sell to revitalize this building and

sell it to another church but like could

we like retrofit this church into

something else apartments or halfway

house or something like that

and so it was like let's let's go

check it out

so we go to the church and you know

from the outside it was rough obviously

but we were not fully prepared for the

inside the inside

literally looked like a set from The

Walking Dead

there was

everything was set up as if you were as

if they were ready to have a church

service right away the the pulpit up

front had like glasses

like not like glasses that you drink

out of but like glasses that you wear

like sitting on the pulpit the Bible is

open to a specific scripture like

everything was set up as if like people

just got up and left like in the middle

of a service and then here's the other

crazy thing is that the walls of the

church were splitting apart like

literally they were falling in either

direction so the church was just

completely collapsing not in on itself

but outward and these people had taken

these metal lines and had connected

them to either wall of the church to

both walls of the church to hold up the

walls so in multiple places in the

auditorium there were these long poles

basically going across that were bolted

into the walls holding up the walls of

the church from collapsing it was it was

insane

we walked around there were classrooms

or whatnot we tried to walk through some

of these classrooms it was

that it was dangerous I was scared of

snakes in there we saw brown recluses

and black widows everywhere in there

that it was just it was absolutely

crazy it literally I'm telling you

it felt like walking through a set of of

The Walking Dead it was it was

terrifying

my client did not purchase that

property in case you're wondering

I couldn't we just couldn't come up

with any angle where it would make sense

like it just needed to be demoed and

the land value wasn't

to me a very good deal if you're just

looking at it from a land standpoint but

someone did end up buying it

I should probably look back and see

what you know what if anything they

ended up doing with it

but I would like to hope that the

Walking Dead Church

now looks presentable and looks like

something and isn't just this this

crazy property with walls that are

about to collapse outwardly at any

given time

so those are some of my crazy ones I

know that a lot of you my listeners have

crazy stories as well particularly if

you're Real Estate Investors so I would

really really love to hear some of your

stories as well

it would actually be fun at some

point to kind of compile some some

stories from some of the listeners so if

you have anything like that please let

me know shoot me an email or shoot me a

text

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