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well um all right so I've done this a

few times in the past but I wanted to

discuss some of my craziest stories of

2024 and some of these are going to be

repeat from previous episodes uh but

this will be a good way to catch up if

you've missed a few of my episodes in

the past and if you've heard them all if

you're one of those really devoted

listeners um some of this will be stuff

that you haven't heard I'll try to I'll

try to make everything a little bit uh a

little bit interesting here um but we

always have crazy stories crazy things

are constantly happening in the world of

real estate um is not a boring job by

any means there's always something wild

happening um and I like to share these

stories with you I try not to share any

stories that would be disparaging to my

clients because that's not cool a lot of

my clients listen to to these shows so I

don't want them to be like hey wait he's

talking about me um I don't do that um

but uh but I do want to as we come to

the end of the year here and and for

some of you this might be the final

episode you hear before Christmas so

Merry Christmas um I've got some great

content coming out on Christmas day uh

the week after the week after that so

please don't miss my endof year content

just because you get busy because

there's some really good stuff coming up

here that I think you guys will be

interested in uh but Merry Christmas if

this is your your uh if you're listening

to this right before Christmas and I

hope you guys have a great holiday

season all right um so I've just got a

handful of of uh of crazy stories from

2024 and I just want to start off with

um I'm not going to I have to be careful

with how many specifics I give with

everything but um I had a listing this

year that was a multiple offer listing

yes even with the slower Market you

still get multiple offers in certain

situations and we had one of those um

not too long ago where I had multiple

offers at home a lot of showings a lot

of interest and I actually got reached

out to a few times by unrepresented

buyers who were interested in me showing

them the home that I had listed now when

when people call me up they're

unrepresented I always show them uh my

listings in order to help out my seller

it also gives me an opportunity to

potentially pick up a new client down

the road as well um but often times it

it doesn't end up going anywhere you you

just you never know what happens but a

lot of people they don't understand uh

that they would be better off having a

buyer's agent they just call up the

listing agent directly I don't recommend

that to anyone uh but you'd be surprised

how many people do that and so I was

actually at uh one of my listings

showing it to uh someone that wasn't a

client someone that had just called me

up they were just like hey can you let

me in the home so I get there um and I'm

on the front porch going over we have a

brokerage disclosure that I have to go

over with them I'm going over that

brokerage disclosure making sure um that

I've disclosed everything that I need to

getting them to sign that these are all

just requirements um for when you're

talking real estate with someone and

while I'm there another vehicle pulled

up no big surprise I figured it was

another agent people come out of the car

and they yell out is anyone here

Stan as loudly as they could as as they

could and I just kind of looked at the

people I was I was there with and I was

like uh yeah that would be me um you

know I have my name on the sign so um so

I'm sure that they just saw that and

they said well we want to look at the

house and I was like okay well uh we're

doing private showings right now I'm

about to let these uh these kind people

in um also there's some paperwork that

I'd have to go over with you and I

wasn't prepared for this uh to for you

to just pull up here um so if you want

um you know I'm committed to these

people right now and they they've got my

full attention but my phone number is

right there on the sign where you got my

name so feel free to text me we can set

up a private showing I can send you the

paperwork and uh and then we can get you

in the house that way well they went off

with with a huff and a puff angry and uh

and just just left I never heard from

them they never called me they never

texted me um and they just seemed angry

about the whole thing and here here's a

ridiculous thing is I was they they just

thought that they could just come in

there and uh you know almost like it was

an open house that I was just letting

everyone and anyone into the home at

that time that's just not how this works

um now I will say that they were from a

generation of people that uh most likely

at one point uh bought and sold real

estate before agents were ever really

involved I mean buyer agency has only

been around for 30 years um so there was

a time when when Buyer Agents didn't

even exist and I find that people that

uh that bought and sold homes before

Buyer Agents existed tend to think that

Buyer Agents are unnecessary in the

market

today um you guys know my opinion on

that I'm not going to get in the Weeds

on that uh but for people to get angry

because I am helping people that

actually set up a private showing with

me and because I wasn't prepared for

them and didn't have the paperwork uh

for them when obviously there was no

need for me to bring paperwork for them

since they weren't they hadn't reached

out to me I mean it's very simple I've

got my number plastered everywhere um

they went off with a huff and a puff and

they missed out in a great house um end

up selling for 30,000 over list price

and they probably wouldn't have ended up

offering that anyway so I feel like I

DOD dodged a bullet on that one but it

is what it is um that those are not the

types of people that I typically want to

deal with and part of why I handled the

situation like I did was I wanted them

to understand that they honestly that

they were being rude and they were not

being considerate to the people that had

reached out to me and had scheduled a

private showing to see what their

response would be because if their

response was oh I'm I'm really sorry

didn't realize that that was the system

blah blah blah then I would have really

gone out of my way to make sure that uh

that I was helping them out in any way

possible but when they responded to that

just being mean and nasty that told me

okay these are these are just mean and

nasty people and that's that um another

one that uh was one of my uh crazier

stories and I did an entire podcast

about a mobile home listing that I had

that I mean it was a the Murphy's Law

transaction of Murphy's Law transactions

but even after I've recorded that

episode more things happened more things

happened um and so I recorded a whole

episode going through all the different

things that happened but more happened

and so consider this to be the final

little bow on on this story okay so

after everything that happened in the

episode where I already discussed this

we had one final thing to get us over

the over the hump in order to actually

close this transaction and that was that

we had an appraiser we had two

appraisals done on this house first

appraiser didn't think there was

anything wrong with it second appraiser

didn't like that there was vinyl

skirting around the foundation of the

home felt like it needed to be a more

solid type of

skirting and um and we didn't have any

any option but to do what that appraiser

said that appraiser had the the final

say even though there was another

appraisal um it it didn't matter it

didn't matter that appraiser uh

basically what they said we we had to

abide by it no matter what what um and

so it was immensely difficult finding

people to be able to capable of of doing

the work that was required and then

people that were available obviously you

know we were still getting tons of rain

you can't do anything in crawl spaces

when there's rain um and so long story

short we got to to the end of the month

and the buyer was about to have to renew

their lease for a month and they didn't

have the money to do it the buyer was

getting basically all of their money

from relatives and other sources closing

costs paid by seller um they didn't have

enough money to to be able to put

another dollar towards this transaction

or another dollar towards something else

and the seller really wanted to close it

too the seller needed uh needed their

money as well and so so what the lender

recommended was that we go ahead and

close prior to the work being done on

this foundation and then you know the

work would be done we after closing and

then um the appraiser could go back out

and then approve it the way to do this

we had to get two different quotes from

two different contractors to do the work

those quotes had to be submitted and

approved by the lender and then uh an

amount held back in escrow in order to

pay one of those two contractors with an

up charge as well um in case the work

ended up uh being higher like a a

contingent the amount in case the work

ended up costing more than

anticipated um so I started working on

getting a quote the listing uh the sorry

the uh the seller who was not in town

also worked on getting a quote as well

from someone that he knew and so we each

got quotes the seller wanted to go with

his guy um and so we went ahead and

closed that went fine it was what it was

um we closed but we still have this

outstanding thing left so um the uh the

the person had said that my S contractor

that he could have the work down on the

foundation uh by the week after closing

well guess what the week after closing

came and I get contacted by the buyer's

agent the contractor didn't show up and

so I'm like well what the heck okay the

contractor didn't show and this isn't

someone that I know I don't know this

contractor remember this is this is the

guy that my seller hired so so I reached

out to my seller he's like hey can you

just deal with this directly with the

contractor gave me his information um

and yeah of course so I reached out to

the contractor and he said hey I'm sorry

you know we're a small company and half

my crew it got sick and we're working on

it and it's like okay all right so I let

everyone know his crew is sick and we

need to wait he said you know we'll have

it done by this time next week this time

next week comes by he still doesn't show

up I reach out to him again and this

time the excuse is well we've had rain

the past few days I can't get under

there because of the

rain it's like okay that's that is a a a

fair excuse right you can't do

foundation work in the rain um usually

so okay

whatever um so I communicate with all

parties again everyone's a little bit on

edge right now right um and uh you know

remember this could this could end up

being a problem there's multiple ways

that this could go a foul um and um so

then you know he said we'll get out

there in in another few days so another

few days come by and he doesn't go out

again and so the buyer's agent contacts

me and we're talking and she's just like

yeah the buyer said you know a bunch of

brick was dumped off at the property um

but they've just not seen anyone there

working and in my mind I went a bunch of

brick because I had spoken to the seller

my understanding was that the seller

wasn't doing a brick foundation around

uh around that mobile home and so um but

that was what the contractor that I had

quoted gave me a quote for was for Brick

so I reached out to my contractor that I

had reached out to originally and said

uh and sorry no no no I I didn't reach

out to him yet I just plugged that back

in in the back of my head and was just

like okay this is weird but maybe my

seller had changed it with uh with his

contractor so I reached out

to the seller I reached out to his

contractor again is more hemming and

Hauling um you know need more time not

quite there yet well then right after

that I get a text message from the

contractor that I had gotten a quote

from and he said hey sorry um due to all

this weather we're not going to be able

to be out there on Monday to to Brick

the foundation as we had originally

planned we'll go out there on Tuesday

well I saw that and immediately I'm like

wait a minute that brick is from my

contractor not the seller's

contractor and holy cow we're in a

potentially really bad situation here we

could have two different contractors

both thinking that they need to get paid

for this job um and I had never given

the green light to to the contractor

that I had gotten the quote from all I

had asked for was a quote and I had told

him that um and so he you know

contractors you know how they are uh if

you've ever worked with them

communication can be a struggle um so

long story short um I immediately

contacted the seller and was just like

hey got a potentially really bad

situation that could be a really good

situation the good is that

my contractor he already has brick out

there and he's ready to get the this

work done on Tuesday and I trust that he

will and as opposed to your contractor

that has now delayed and delayed for

multiple weeks U the bad is that if you

don't cancel with your contractor you're

going to have two contractors expecting

to get paid well thank goodness it did

not take much for him to cancel with his

contractor I don't think his Contra

contractor wanted to do the work anyway

um and then finally my guy went out

there they brick the the foundation and

all was good well guess

what I had written down this uh as as

one of my stories to discuss on this

before this happened just a few days ago

I get another call by the way I'm

recording this uh December 10th so a few

days

ago this is going to come out I believe

on December 18th so it's it's a few

weeks ago by the time you're listening

to this but from from the time that I am

recording this um a few days ago I get

contacted by the seller saying hey can I

have my money released and I was like

well I thought the money was released

the lender had sent an authorization to

release the funds to the closing

attorney and the contractor had reached

out to me and had made sure everything

was lined up for him to get his

money and so everything seemed good to

go um so I reached out to the contractor

and was like hey did you get paid and he

was like no we've not been paid yet and

I was like shocked that he hadn't made a

big fuss about it because he had made a

big deal about it earlier um and so I

reached out to the closing attorney and

was just like hey we need to release

These funds to the seller and the

contractor and they said well we can't

until we get uh permission from the

buyer or the buyer's agent to do so on

the basis of the work having been

completed and I said well you've already

gotten an authorization from the

lender and the Appraiser's already been

out there and approved the work so no

you don't need anything else beyond that

and the closing attorney sent me a form

that that uh that they claimed yes we do

need authorization from the buyer or buy

buyer agent well I looked at the form

and the form said that they need

authorization from the lender who had

given them authorization well by that

point i' had already gone back and forth

and I was already really angry with the

closing attorney about this anyway

because I did not need I'm so done right

this this is a transaction I've been

working on for like five months I'm so

done with it by now um and so I just

reach out to the buyer agent I was just

like can you please tell this attorney

that the brick work is done and they can

release the funds and they did the

buyers agent did and they finally

released the funds and my mobile home

listing from hell is finally I think

finally done I hope I never hear from

this home again I don't care I don't

want to hear from it again I'm done with

it

um another story that I've alluded to

before I've talked about um a

refinance that um that I was doing on a

couple of my duplexes and and talked

about how we got some uh some crazy

appraisals that that came in I I did a

whole episode on that if you if you've

not listened to that

um please go back and listen to it

because it's it's a very fascinating

very fascinating story uh with regard to

how different appraisers work and how

sometimes they miss things and a good

Agent uh which yeah I'm I'm gonna I'm

gonna say I'm a good Agent I hope so um

if I'm not I don't know what I'm doing

here but um a good Agent can sometimes

correct appraisers well um that story I

thought was done when I recorded that

one too but that story is still ongoing

as well cuz guess what Underwriters

deter determined on their own that my

lease agreements were fraudulent my

lease agreements that my property

manager uh signed in writing there's not

even e signing it's wet signatures with

my

tenants and for some reason they flagged

him as fraudulent and now they won't

release uh they won't release the money

for me they won't even let us get to

closing because they thought the leases

were fraudulent and now they're in this

like long under writing thing they had a

nasty conversation with my property

manager they did all sorts of things and

I'm here I'm stuck I can't even switch

to another lender well I I could pivot

to another lender if I wanted to um but

I've got you know if you listen to my

episode on this one I'm actually happy

with the appraisals I got and I don't

want to go back out there and have to to

reinvent the wheel get new appraisals

all of that because this has already

been done one time I'd have to pay for

double everything no no thank you um and

so now uh you know this has been the

year that everything has been difficult

everything has felt difficult and so

here we go now I have a situation where

my property manager is upset we can't

reach someone with the underwriters that

are helpful and here we are we're just

waiting on a paper pusher to sign off on

something that's the most ridiculous

thing ever so here's some of the

nonsense that we deal with in real

estate um sometimes it's Underwriters

now um I always recommend working with

lenders that have local Underwriters

unfortunately none of my local lenders

that have local Underwriters could

handle this refinance for me um and so I

ended up having to go with a different

lender that their underwriter is out in

California now the lender is local but

the underwriter is not and here we go

here's the problem this is these are the

sorts of things that people don't think

about when they're selecting a lender is

that um something as as basic as where

the underwriter is located can sometimes

uh derail a whole transaction here I am

right now I don't know what's going to

happen um it it's been one of the

craziest things I've ever dealt with um

and hopefully it'll be over soon um

another story that I've alluded to in

the past but I'd be completely remiss if

I did not bring up as one of my crazy

stories of 2024 the week and and weeks

following Helen I mean hurricane Helen

was unlike anything that Greenville has

ever had um the entire County was

basically without power for a week to to

two weeks at least some uh in some cases

three four five weeks people were

without power it was insane um the first

day that I went out after Helen I was

completely ill-prepared uh I had not

gassed up the the day before the storm I

didn't think the storm was gonna was

going to have that big of an impact I

was just completely out of the loop this

was a busy week for me so that was just

on me I'm not I'm not blaming anyone for

that one that I can't blame a appraiser

or an underwriter for for Helen and for

me not being prepared for that that was

just on me um but um I was actually I

was I had like 40 miles till empty um

and I go out and every gas station is

either out of gas has no power or so

backed up that it's like I don't even

know if my 40 miles I've got a pickup

truck I don't even know if it's going to

last me um I went to I think 15

different gas

stations almost none of them had guess

the ones that did um it looked like it

was going to be a 2 to three hour wait

at best and then you know you're you're

gambling with whether they'll have gas

uh by the time that weight is over I I

saw people literally just waiting at gas

stations that had no power just hoping

against hope that somehow the power

would come back it was crazy the whole

thing was it was very apocalyptic very

apocalyptic scene all around and uh I

finally found a gas station over near

Highway 14 uh towards Greer and um and I

got in line for it and I was in line for

like an hour I had my wife you know I

was now my gas was now down to 10 miles

until empty and of course you know it's

inconsistent you never know how accurate

that's going to be I have my wife coming

with like a gallon of gas in case I run

out while I'm in line I mean the whole

thing was

crazy I pull up to the pump on empty

there's people having fights at the gas

station like I said it's like a

post-apocalyptic kind of

situation um I have never I I don't

think in my life I have ever ever felt

so relieved as I did when I filled up my

tank with gas and just knew I don't have

to worry about this I will be able to

you know go around see my listings

continue on with my life and not have

this one thing looming over my head cuz

none of us knew what was going to happen

we didn't know how long are we going to

be without power are we going to be

without gas for an extended period of

time and and none of that ended up being

an issue like if I had could have just

waited three or four days all those

lines went away right power started

coming back at those high priority

locations there was plenty of gasoline

to go around this was a fairly olated

gasoline situation um and so it ended up

being not that big of a

deal um but it was a big deal to me

because I hadn't gassed up prior to the

storm and I needed to go out and then go

around to look at my listings which that

was its own crazy thing every single

listing I had had a tree down somewhere

one of them uh we got under contract the

day before the hurricane and we still

hav't closed because a tree fell on the

front porch now thankfully the buyers

still wanted to move forward with the

transaction

but we had to make an insurance claim

and and uh now uh actually today as I'm

recording this the appraiser is going

back out to review the work to make sure

that the porch was done correctly I mean

what a what a trip I I was arranging for

PE for um lawn uh care people to haul

away massive trees I mean it was just

one thing after another um my office

somehow had power even though my house

didn't I was spending I was late nights

at my

office uh because it was like I went

that that first night without power went

home and it's like dark at like 700 p.m.

my dog was asleep I have a very

energetic dog she was asleep at like

7:30 like a deep sleep I've never before

seen her do that not since she was a

puppy um and and you know as as a puppy

they just take those naps all the time

no no no she was like out for the night

and like I said I can't express how

weird that is for her to H for her to do

that we were all just really thrown off

uh by everything um I was grateful that

my office had power that was clutch I

was going over there recharging

everything using the water and ice that

they had I mean it was fantastic um but

um man I don't think anything Will trump

in 2024 I mean I will always think of

this hurricane I will always associate

that storm with this year because that

was just such everything about it was so

crazy and I don't care to have something

like that again and this gave me new

respect for people that live in Florida

and Louisiana and people that get

battered by these storms all the time I

couldn't do it I will never move to one

of those States um it hold me

accountable if I ever uh decide or or

say that I'm thinking about moving to

one of those States hold me accountable

cuz I don't have any desire to do it I'm

going on the record now that I won't do

it

uh because that it's just too it's just

too much too crazy um I I being uh a

couple of weeks without power and having

to go through all those hoops and seeing

people fighting at gas stations no thank

you that's not for me um another crazy

thing from 2024 and and this will

certainly be one of the things that I

associate with this year as well was so

I've mentioned a few times on here that

um earlier this year I joined the board

of directors for the greater Greenville

Association of Realtors was announced

just a few weeks ago uh when I was sworn

in but I actually started serving in

January in an interim uh as seat on the

board um and guess what we had a massive

thing that happened in the Association

of Realtors when the National

Association of Realtors lost a lawsuit

and then uh a settlement a massive

settlement that completely changed the

entire industry was then leaked prior to

them preparing any anyone for it and

guess what I'm on the board of a local

Association we're having to deal with

the Fallout from all of this and none of

us were prepared for it not one person

and and that's not due to a lack of

preparation that's because the National

Association of Realtors didn't tell any

of us that this was going to happen and

I don't think that they could tell us

because of um of of potential legal

ramifications they had to announce it to

everyone at the same time but then of

course it was leaked um and so that just

expedited the timeline created all sorts

of Fallout it was it was insane the N

was not prepared for it to be released

when it was released the local

Association certainly was not prepared

um and what a time to uh join a board of

directors at a time when I mean one of

my first phone calls after all of that

was

someone um that is uh not a realtor but

is directly impacted by the real estate

industry and this person their

employment is directly impacted by it

and this person was like am I going to

lose my job like this this was the the

level of freakout that happened right

away as a result of of that settlement

was crazy um now since it's happened you

know our our industry we always adapt

and survive it always happens we've been

through real estate is an industry that

goes through the ringer more so than

many Industries right because it's so

such a

decentralized world it's super local um

there's not a whole lot of uh of major

uh Power players in the real estate

World from the standpoint of of the real

estate brokerages and agents um so it's

very

decentralized and so uh as a result of

that it can it can be kind of

disorganized in some ways and that's why

the National Association of Realtors

exists is to bring some level of

centralization and organization to a

very unique local industry um but the

weeks following that uh n settlement was

crazy particularly me serving on a local

Association board it just made it a

whole another thing um we had to have

long long

conversations um uh discussing the the

future of the industry even had an

entire day that we spent kind of game

planning you know how does all this work

um in in you know the scenario in in a

bunch of different scenarios what kind

of make sure that we're bringing the

best value to the members of the

association a lot going on behind the

scenes that a lot of people don't know

um but uh but it was crazy that was

that's one of those things that unless

you were there you don't fully

understand how crazy it was but it was

quite

crazy um another one this was earlier in

the year I actually had I was actually

going back through all of my closings

and and was reminded oh yes I had a

closing

that fell out from being under contract

three different times before it finally

worked out it finally went under it

finally went under contract for the

fourth time with a buyer that was

actually willing to close on it never in

my life now I'm sure there are some some

agents listening to this that have had

this happen before but for me personally

my number one priority when I get

someone under contract is that it does

not fall through okay that is the number

one priority because nobody is happy

when a contract falls through all

parties are upset and usually they feel

a little bit upset towards you as the

agent even if you had nothing to do with

it so I make it a really really high

priority let's try to get out in front

of potential issues on the front end

let's look at this house closely during

the showing let's make sure that we

leave no stone unturned in so far as we

can prior to going under contract

because we don't want the contract to

fall through so for me to have a

contract fall through three times never

in my career have I had anything close

to that and I was I mean everyone was

upset I was done with it my clients were

done with it and you know what I even

had a conversation one of them um at one

point kind of tried to fire me another

one later wanted to make sure and and

they were divorced so um so they they

weren't talking to each other that was a

whole another thing it made it even more

difficult um another one you know at one

point was like after the third contract

fell through do you do you actually want

this listing do you still want to work

with us and I was like yes yes I have

carried I have pushed the ball forward

this long I am going to see this to

completion I'm stubborn sometimes to a

fault um and um that was that was crazy

I mean I had this listing under contract

so many different times and I had it

listed for so long and when that closing

finally happened the amount of relief I

felt like I had a new lease on life I

mean and I've had multiple of these this

year I've I haven't had a year like this

that you know when I talked about during

the Thanksgiving episode that it's been

a hard year in many ways it's just

because so many transactions were really

difficult um and you know I've said on

the show before the hardest transactions

are the cheapest ones the ones that you

as a realtor don't get paid the most for

and that's true a $150,000 transaction

usually is much more difficult than an

$850,000 transaction it's just the way

it is there's a lot of reasons for that

well I was looking through my my

closings for the year just kind of you

know recalibrating just kind of seeing

okay you know I know in the back of my

head what the year was but let's

actually look at it and I mean the

number of closings I had that were below

300,000 even below

250,000 a huge number a huge number of

closings so there was it was like I'm

looking at I was like okay it makes

sense this is why this was such a hard

year was I was literally in the in the

sandbox playing in the sandbox with the

most challenging transactions because

all of these every just about every

single transaction I had had some kind

of a Twist or turn that you just

couldn't anticipate and things that were

for a lot of people once in a uh once in

a career type of thing they all just

happened to me this year um and uh and

that home uh needing to go under

contract four times before it finally

sold was one of those things

Last Story um and and I I save the best

for last I'm not going to go I'm not

going to go into all of the details on

this one uh but there are some funny

ones so I had some people who contacted

me and they contacted me that they

wanted me to list their home well the

conversation was odd from the get-go um

it was there there was just a lot of

different things that felt off about it

um and but it was just like okay you

know so they're telling me they've got

this investment property they want to

sell it they want me to look at it and

so I'm like okay well when are you

available for us to meet at the home and

they said oh well we were just hoping

you could go look at it yourself I was

like go look at it like why why won't

you be there I was just like well we're

going out of town I'm like oh okay well

when do you get back in town and it was

quiet for a second and I hear another

person uh not the person I'm talking to

another person

and and I can tell that they're in a

vehicle

Say Never we're never coming back and

I'm like uh did I say something wrong

why and why are they never coming back

I'm just I'm just very confused um so

then I'm like okay you know well I can

go look at it

myself um how do I get in you know they

describe some things to me um and then

of course I asked customary question uh

at some point in this conversation

you know how did you find my number how

did you hear about me and again silence

and then the person I'm talking to says

well I don't really want to say and I'm

like what and then the then the other

person says just tell him and they're

like no I I I I don't want to tell you

well it ended up being that it was just

someone that I knew from like college

had referred me to them I I don't know

why they didn't want to tell me but it

came out later

um then they're like you know we've got

another section of the property we want

you to go in there you we want you to

throw out something that's in

there um and and also we've been

scrubbing it with bleach and because it

smelled there was something that smelled

bad in there we were scrubbing it with

bleach and um just tell us if it still

smells bad in there and I'm just like I

watch you know one of my guilty

pleasures is like True Crime shows

usually one of the last things I do

before I go to sleep is I watch Like A

murder mystery I just enjoy those um and

one of the Hallmarks of murder mysteries

is the Savvy murderers use bleach to to

clean up the scene after they're done

right it I mean bleach can really make

it challenging for law enforcement to

process a crime scene and so I'm like am

I about to enter a crime scene and I

can't tell you there is so much more to

the story that I can't say for a variety

of reasons but it was the wackiest I

mean just so many different things I

ended up yes I ended up having to throw

away something from them in the

microwave they had these like frozen

noodles I don't I just don't even I

don't even know what's happening I had

to go throw away their noodles I had to

dispose of a of a dead mouse I mean in

inside the house there were so many

absolutely insane things um that I mean

I could do an entire podcast and

originally I was going to do an entire

podcast just on that story uh there are

some reasons why I I couldn't end up

doing that

unfortunately um but um but if you want

to hear the story The the full story I'd

be happy to to tell you uh over the

phone that that's the only way that

you're going to get it from me um so uh

so yeah we we can discuss it that way

but I'm not going to go into any more

details on this show so those are my

craziest stories of 2024 I hope you guys

enjoyed that hopefully 2025 won't be

quite as crazy but I'm sure there will

be more crazy stories then as well so

yeah if you want more details give me a

call my contact information is in the

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