Posted on 11/06/2014 10:53:01 AM PST by Red Badger
The new owner of a foreclosed home in Cape Coral got more than he bargained when he went to inspect his purchase.
William Wilson bought the light pink house on SE 19th Lane for $96,000 at an auction on Tuesday, according to the News-Press of Fort Myers.
When he went to mow the lawn and check out the house itself on Wednesday, he found a corpse on the master bedroom floor. Wilson told the paper all that remained was the bones, skin and smell of the remains.
Wilson said the inside of the house was a mess and it looked like whoever lived there was packing to move.
Cape Coral police said the most recent piece of mail was from November of 2011 and unpaid taxes went back three years, according to the News-Press.
Longtime residents of the neighborhood said the last people to live in the house was an older woman from Miami and her sister, but they hadn’t been seen or heard from in years.
Imagine coming back from vacation to find out that a possum had crawled up into the hvac system and shorted out the heater coils. He got electrocuted and since the system was out in the hot Florida sun for a few days you can’t imagine how bad a maggot infested possum, dripping over the coils, could smell. I’m getting sick thinking about that smell.
Looks like the first lady
Is that Meyer Lansky’s house?
Gag! A possum would be even worse than a rat!
I can’t even imagine.
Actually, Hyman Roth’s house.
“A GOOD realtor could spin it in to a ‘positive’...”
“A great home to spend the rest of your life in!”
Or...
“The last home you’ll ever need to buy!”
Nope. As is where is. What u see is what u get..............
“One owner!”...................and they loved it to death!.................
I couldn’t remember the name they gave Meyer Lanky in The Godfather.
Not a sale per se, but an auction.
They tend to be sold without the ability to go in and do a full inspection.
Years ago, our first house was an old Victorian that had been rebuilt over the years. The front bedroom had been a porch and did not have hot-water radiators. Instead, someone had installed forced hot air off the furnace manifold.
Well, we had a lot of cats. Cats like to find and play with and then kill mice. One mouse fell through the hot air register and down into the furnace manifold. So every time the heat came on, the bedroom smelled like hot, dead mouse. In desperation, I poured some Aqua Velva down the register. Big mistake. Then, every time the heat came on we could smell dead mouse wearing Aqua Velva, which was infinitely worse. Took months for the stink to stop.
Obviously, a rhetorical question...I’m sure the deceased pulled the lever for Barry two years ago and for Charlie Crist this time around.
Considering a LIVE maggot-infested possum is already about three quarters of the way to the smell of a dead one....that IS pretty bad. :)
You should have used “Fabreze”, like Cindy Anthony!
Now that's funny!
Here in Florida we have these little green tree frogs that get inside everything. And sometimes they can’t get back out!
Had one die in my car’s AC vent...................horrid smell for a long time!....................
LOL!
The rat in our attic(and he was huge) apparently came into the house wet from rain and shorted out some wires above our bedroom. It was summer and he had already started to stink by the time the electrician came to fix the shorted out wires. Even though we removed the dead rat the smell hung on for about 2 months.
Dude?!?! The dead with the deed? Dad dreds that dud deed.
*dreads
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