Ghost cost extra...15:41 Oct 13 2011
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Well that was a first for me. The couple we rented the house to has a child about 5 and one on the way. Reason they are moving out of an apartment into a 3 bedroom home we have. Nice couple, good jobs, really sweet child = so I rented it to them.
I meet with the man yesterday to do the lease, walk thru the house to list damage, hand over the keys as he wanted to start moving in this weekend. And it seems I am over booked as it is this weekend, having to work Sunday on billing if all goes as planned with my sister, as my other sister come to stay with Mom.
Mom has been ill these last two weeks, throwing up, dizzy. Kidney infection, meds tearing her tummy up, weak as she has not felt like eating. But the deadline to get these bills in is this month. So.. We work Sunday. Birdy’s Camp Wild cat thing is this weekend, the Civil War reenactment. Forgot the damn thing until she called last night. Oh well… me taking photos or getting bills in for work I already paid out on, cash in hand… yeap, billing will be done Sunday. Just how it is.
So back to the man I rented the house to-= this house we have owned since the early 80’s. Wood floors, old details, old kitchen cabinets, really a cute home. They loved it when they did the walk thru on the weekends I worked showing it most of the day Sat/Sundays. Took us three weekends but I liked them and they checked out on credit/ income/ the lady they rent from now said they paid on time, no problems out of them.
So I spent half a hour with him yesterday doing the lease, answer questions. I left him in the house with the two keys, and off I went on my merry way. This morning I made copies of his lease, and called his work to leave a message I was going to drop it off in the mailbox at the house. He calls me back, and said he had a few more questions. “On the middle bedroom floor, the hardwood, was the burnt footprint there before?”
Yes- it was there when we purchased the home. The home was owned by a man who used to drive a taxi for my Dad some years ago. He died, the son after the funeral asked Dad if he wanted to buy the house. He lived out of the state, across the country in fact, and did not want to deal with trying to sell it with a realtor. Dad asked how much, they talked, agreed to a price and he wrote him a check for it on the same day. Of course it was cold as hell, but the bank cleared it till we got up there to make the loan. Small town, they knew he had the money.
The footprint was there- it is a soul of a shoe, burnt in to the wood. “And the other foot- the bare foot. You can see the toes.” Ok- I don’t remember that one but I said yes, it was there. Seems they did not see it during the walk thru and just notice it last night. I joked and said “Yeah- kind of spooky but they where there when we got the house.” He then ask me if anyone had died in the house. I don’t remember if the man had or not but I said no. I have one house where someone died, but I was not going to say this one did. “Has anyone said anything about the house being haunted?” “Nooo.. Why would you ask that?” “No one has to die in the house for it to be haunted.” “Ok.” “I left a voice recorder running today, to see if anything come in.”
Ok- that is when I start to think… the dude is a little nuts. “Hoping for a EVP are you?” “You know about that?” “Yes- I watch a few ghost shows. But I am telling you nothing is in that house. I have been alone in it more times then I can count- cleaning, painting, showing it. I have never seen anything, and no one who has rented it ever said anything to me.” “I don’t know- when we went in yesterday my daughter went into the carpet bedroom, and she was in there talking like she always is and ran back out to the living room to us and asked who the girl is in her room.” “Really?” “Yes. We went in there and looked, no one was there.” “You do know there is a large window in the room- she might of just seen her reflection.”
“Oh she wasn’t afraid or anything. My wife kind of freaked out, then we found those footprints and it just really got us going.”
Great… they will run screaming out of the house one night, saying it is haunted. And break the year lease. Can you claim a haunting to break a lease? Hmm
“Sure it is nothing, once you move in it will feel like a home. But if you find something, give me a call.” *laugh here* He joins in and said it would be cool if he did, and he would.
COMMENTS
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Morrigon
23:07 Oct 31 2011
WOOOOOH!!! Fun!
MooniePie
23:58 Oct 31 2011
I wish I still had Trick or Treaters. I loved to dress up and pass out candy.
Damn them for growing up! -shakes fist-