Hustle Humbly Haunted Houses

Happy Halloween from Hustle Humbly. We dressed up, turned on the spooky music, and asked our listeners to send us their scariest, creepiest, most unbelievable real estate stories. And y'all delivered.

Important disclaimer: if you are triggered by death, crime, bugs, paranormal activity, or just creepy stuff in general — this is probably not the episode for you. Go listen to Episode 220 about free tools for your business. That one is very friendly.

For everyone else: buckle up. We've got haunted hotels, tombstones used as stepping stones, a bag of teeth on a kitchen windowsill, a Chucky doll at the bottom of a basement staircase, a ghost named Mr. Fred who hides your keys, and one very memorable green-faced man in a window. Katy named every story like an Edgar Allan Poe short story, and honestly she was really good at it.

Here's what we cover in this episode:

- Louisiana's psychological defects disclosure law — and why it basically doesn't exist because of New Orleans
- Alissa's haunted tour of the French Quarter: the Andrew Jackson Hotel, disposable cameras, and photos taken of a sleeping couple from above
- Jay from Nebraska and the bag of teeth on the kitchen windowsill of a vacant house ("Teeth to Remain")
- McKinsey from Wisconsin: blood stains, toenail clippers, and a very long property showing ("The Blood Stain Showing")
- Stacey from Georgia: the house that played Magic Carpet Ride by Steppenwolf — then Enter Sandman by Metallica — every time the door opened, installed by the seller to scare away vandals ("Music Man")
- Maddie's stories: the tombstone in the front yard that was a protected historical landmark ("Talk About Curb Appeal"), and a foreclosed house where the people seemed to have simply vanished
- Lauren: the husband who hid a dusty old Elf on the Shelf in the attic eaves of the house they were selling to scare future homeowners
- Janice: the estate sale where the cleaning lady placed a baseball at the top of the attic stairs to see if it would move — and then Katy pretended it had
- Lindsey in Colorado: the HUD murder house she bought anyway, snuck into alone to negotiate with the ghost, gave birth in the master bedroom years later, and called it "the whole spectrum of life and death"
- Lisa from London, Ontario: the estate sale home across from a cemetery with an invisible tenant named Mr. Fred who hid keys, rang doorbells, and turned on a ceiling fan during an open house — until asked nicely to stop
- Donna from Minnesota: the greenish-faced man peeking from a corner window that was physically impossible to reach from the basement stairs ("Green Face Gremlin")
- Stephanie from Florida: the house she couldn't even walk two feet into without a physical panic attack — no known deaths, no history, just pure evil energy
- Noel from Maryland: the Victorian farmhouse with an Underground Railroad tunnel, a little girl who ran in the yard daily, and a Shadow Man who kept the horses from getting hay
- Noel's second story: her landlord Edgar Allan Poe the third who haunted her apartment after his death — and communicated via a flickering floor lamp — until she told him to stop scaring her kids ("The Tell-Tale Lamp")
- Alissa's Myrtles Plantation story — and Haven's core memory of learning about the hanging of the nanny
- Karen: walls covered in Texas-sized roaches in a dark vacant house ("The Walls Are Crawling")
- Misty from Indiana: the running shower sound in a vacant farmhouse — turns out the water main had burst and was flooding the basement
- Rachel from Houston: a squatter living in the seller's art shed, and a grandfather's home with thousands of dead flies and a large black stain where his body was found weeks after his death
- Alissa's inherited listing with the green pool — and why dad's ashes were in it
- Katy's vacant house she staged alone and brought a plant for the person who used to live there
- What states require disclosure of psychological defects and deaths — and a promise to do a full episode on it

Toast of the week goes to Kendra Anderson in Richmond, Virginia, toasted by colleague Carrie Ringgold. Kendra welcomed Carrie to their office, mentored her from day one, shared ideas freely, and closed their first deal together smoothly. Cheers to Kendra!

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