the times of kryptoniteglows

So I’ve been seeing this one property in my searches, over and over with what seemed like a great price. I was rather surprised it had not been sold or something so far, the seller was said to be “motivated”, but I just figured they were not as motivated as listed. The listing is probably 6 months old, the picture of the property still has snow on it…. Some listings don’t have dates, so that is the first bad sign. The lack of pictures or pictures that are obviously out of date.

Google map’s streetview showed the house to be next to a gas station. Given that, I’m not even sure why I bothered to look. The place was also off of RT 4, basically a 4 lane highway is front of the house, these should have all been obvious signs that this place was no good…

I decided to do some background search on it, found they basically hadn’t paid their property taxes since 2006! This kind of intrigued me that it would have to be sold at a sheriff’s sale for taxes or mortgage, so I decided to take a look. Took the short drive over, it was only really then that I noticed the how bad it would be to live in front of a 4 lane roadway. There is sort of a barrier between the row of houses that start the development and the roadway, but it’s mainly a little row of immature trees. The gas station also seems awfully close, in that you could walk over to it.

The “two car” garage was basically one super long garage, in theory you could fit two cars inside it, but would you? Against my better judgment, I get out of my car to look at the property. That’s when the stench hit me! I don’t know if someone died inside or a crazy cat lady lived there or some combination of both, it stunk!