Mary's Funny Real Estate stories: How not to sell a house-- I was showing a house, and the first turnoff for my clients was a large cage of mice. We couldn't imagine why anyone would want to keep common field mice, but we continued to tour the house. When we got to the master bedroom, there was a large heavy shelf above the bed, with an enormous fish tank on it. In the tank was the bigest boa constrictor I had ever seen, and for a snake-o-phobic, like me, it was at least 118 feet long. We figured out what the mice in the cage were for, and beat a hasty retreat.
Another house (not the same buyers, thank heavens) had a reptile room downstairs. Snakes, tarantulas, gila monsters, lizards, etc. My clients walked out and said they would always be afraid one of the reptiles would have escaped and they would find it in the wall or coming up thru the toilet.
Get rid of pets like these before the house is shown. In 99% of cases, people don't like reptiles, and we can't just advertise for those who do, and hope they will show up to view the house.
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