Homeownership can be a rewarding experience, but it can also be a total nightmare. You move into a new place, maybe even your first home, and them BAM! Out of nowhere, disaster strikes leaving you frustrated and sometimes with a huge repair or cleanup bill.
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Was getting ready for bed, walked into my bedroom to this.
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I’m starting to think this view isn’t worth golfers aiming directly at our homes
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Not one single fuse labeled in my new home.
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I posted this a few years ago, but here’s that time my neighbors’ house got broken into by a wild turkey
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This is my view from the bathroom floor, looking at the hole in the ceiling I just fell through.
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Not mine, but man that stinks!
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I was cleaning out my rental house and I smelled some strange smell in the closet. I had to get down on my knees to read this on the floor. It was written in sharpie
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Wife and I saved for years to build our dream cabin in the woods and less than two years later an abandoned house across the road decided to open up a tobacco store and light themselves up like the beacons of Gondor.
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This is a wall at my friend’s house…
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my beanbag popped, any tips for cleaning this up?
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Bought my first house and it came with a shed. Turns out the previous owner wired the shed himself and rewired parts of the house
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I went to replace a switch and found the previous worker used tape instead of wire nuts. Time to check the whole house.
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Microwave door blew up. House built one year ago
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Follow up to the honey bees swarming the side of my house. Bee keeper is here saving them. They were building a new hive.
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“I think I left a window open last night, not sure.”
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A neighbor’s “security” light that they keep on 24/7
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Literally Crappy Design – New house some friends of mine recently bought has a toilet next to a window facing other houses. This is the only window in the house with no blinds.
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Newly purchased house reno…
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After two years living in my house, I came home to learn my mantelpiece was just glued on.
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Whole kitchen sink just fell out of the counter
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Parents bought a house and while checking out the kitchen…
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Got rudely awakened by the sound of everything in my kitchen cupboards crashing to the floor.
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Please don’t bury your pet in a plastic storage bin. Someone (me) might accidentally dig it up one day.
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Just bought my first house. Was told there was hardwood under all the carpet. Tested a discreet corner in the closet, which did in fact have hardwood beneath. But not the living room. Looks like I’ll be spending too much money on new flooring now…
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Left our totally normal house to run errands. Came back an hour and a half later to this.
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Found out why my house started to smell every time the water heater kicked on.
