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H.I.P. 1 – Neighborhood drama

January 18th, 2010 Leave a comment Go to comments

One of the first pieces of advice we received was to drive around the neighborhood of any house we wanted to look at.  We did this previously for a house in Mars and that proved to be a very smart move and this time would be the same. We had some errands to run on Saturday so we decided to drive around the North Hills and check out a few houses we received emails about.

From the outside the house was nice (that green is actually darker than the pic), the pictures we saw online we knew this house was absolutely perfect plus the information shows the place was updated and had a private yard. Too good to be true right? right.

We pull up across from the property and check out the other houses. Not bad, not bad. In fact we were sold on this place that we wanted to schedule an appointment. As I reached for my phone to call our Realtor it happened…

Next door in that off white house came this older lady. She got in her car, put it in reverse and backed into an SUV not once but TWICE! She pulled forward, put it in reverse and did it again! Oh yeah, there was no other car in front of her! She got out, saw us and then ran inside. My insurance agent would probably drop me for living by her.

Still amazed by what happened we leave and get maybe 4 houses away from the rear-ender when we see some ghetto chicks have their van parked in the middle of the road and are unloading it. They see us stopped and take their good ole time, read mail, chit chat. Another car came so now we have a jam and this guy wasn’t about to wait for anyone. He’s honking his horn, giving me the finger to move, which I can’t because cars on both sides prevented such a feat. Eventually the one girl gets in her van, pulls up to us, lowers her window and screams at us.  No words just blaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh with full tongue ring exposed.

Needless to say, we’re no longer interested in this property and will be staying far away from this area.

Stay classy!

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    • http://mylifeasafoodie.com Phil

      You guys learned the one lesson that almost no one takes the time to learn. Any time you’re about to plunk down the most amount of money you’ve ever spent on anything, it’s best to know everything about it. And the one thing people never take the time to do is hang out in the neighborhood for a while.

      Visit the neighborhood at least 3 times. Visit during the day, visit at night, and visit at least once during the weekend. Check it out, see what the neighborhood is like, what the neighbors are like – even knock on their door and tell them you’re thinking of purchasing in the neighborhood and wanted to know what the neighborhood is like. Even meeting one person may turn you either way.

    • http://douglasderda.com douglas

      You knock on someone’s door here you get shot. We don’t kindly to no strangers n’at *haha*