Someone Took the Carpet?!

I’ve been in this business a long time and I’ve seen a lot of crazy things, from wild Peacocks chasing me out of a backyard to foreclosed properties with the sink missing. I know when people lose their homes, it’s a very emotional event, and my heart always goes out to them. I guess in some instance, say for example, a homeowner goes to all this time and expense to fix up his or her home, only to find out that they are going to lose that home.

And, in perhaps a fit of escalated emotion, they decide to take out whatever they put into the house. I don’t think it’s for the money as much as it is principle, warped as it may seem to those of us visiting the now-vacant house and seeing, for example, the fireplace mantle or sink ripped outta the wall.

This week though, I gotta tell ya, really takes the cake. I have a deal in escrow. The buyers are the nicest kids in the world. The house is NOT a foreclosures. The house is vacant. So I get a call from the FHA appraiser that the home has no carpet.

Huh?

Of course the house has carpet. It’s new and pretty and I just walked on it last week when I let the home inspector in. Well, not anymore, she informs me. And, there is a broken window in the back.

So let me get this straight.

Some hoodlams, who have nothing better to do, scope out a vacant house and break in to steal carpet? Really? Yep. Someone broke in, pulled the carpet up, rolled it up and took it right out of the house. How bizzar is that?

And this was just a short time before we were to close, mind you.

Fortunately, the sellers had it replaced, but now I’m wondering, will it happen again? How do you protect yourself and your clients from such parasites that would do something that irrehensible. I just don’t know.

I secretly fantazie that I am Wonder Woman and I camp out at the house until the creeps come back for more rug. As soon as they walk in the house, I’ll zap them with my Wonder Woman wand (did Wonder Woman have a wand? I don’t know, but that seems sort of irrelavant at this point). I think about getting a gaurd dog, a camera and a sercurity gaurd.

It’s sad enough that so many folks are losing their homes, but to break into a home and steal the carpeting seems to be a new low. I am sure, somewhere, somehow, there is carpet karma, and I am certain these carpet thieves have it comin.’

Ta ta for now,
Wonder Woman