💩 Why Are People Pooping At Open Home Inspections?

How common is this? We speak to a real estate agent!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda jam Nation.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
I thought i'd heard it all.

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Well, no, as you said, we've had the Pooh jogger,
We've had the bicycle jogger. No, the bike poor, Yeah,
I think that was that was doctor Carr's and now
we've got the open home poor. I read a story
on the weekend. People are saying something unusual is happening
in the real estate market. Someone it's happened twice in

(00:26):
a row that these people had an open home viewing
for their home with a real estate agent there. They
came home both times and someone had left an enormous,
unflushed number two in the toilet. Someone else was saying
that they had moved out of their home at the
end of lease. They'd cleaned it perfectly. Then they got
a call from the real estate agent saying, well, the
bathroom is disgusting. They say, what do you mean, There's

(00:47):
a big number two in there that they hadn't left.
What's going on is there's some speculation that people are
trying to sabotage properties for others. If you're going too
an open home inspection, because properly are so hard to
get that you're putting other people off in the Brady Bunch.
They just put a sheet over the head and tried
to scare people here. The Brady Bunch had.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Done this, they joined the Klan. The Brady Bunch pretended
it was hoarded.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Yeah, so we thought we'd get to the bottom of this.
I have a friend who's a real estate agent. We're
not going to use his name. Hello, Anon, Hello.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Amanda, and Jonesy, we've used your We've got your voice
running through a voice disguiser.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
Actually, we don't really don't. We know, we don't. We
were He always sounds like that. Now, can you tell us,
having heard what I've just said, is this something that's
really weird or have you come across this yourself?

Speaker 3 (01:40):
No, definitely. We've had times where people have come into
your open home and asked to use the bathroom, and
early on in your career you think it never occurs
to you that someone's going to do a number two,
So you think that's fine if you quickly need to
go use the bathroom very quickly. Once the smoke detectors
start off in the house, once they've done the number two,

(02:02):
you realize that's not what I had in mind. And
so it has happened quite a few times the early
in your career and then now you just say to people, know,
there's a shop down the road or the hotel across
the road.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
But it makes people do it? What makes people want
to do a number two in someone else's house.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
It's strange to us that people would think it's like
you're arrest stop, but they do do it. They do
stop in and just say can we quickly use the bathroom?
Even when there's like thirteen fourteen people walking through the house.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
Right, So people actually will stop in at an open
home even if they're not looking at the house because
they want to use the toilet.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
Yes, like wipe. We had joggers run past, they can
we quickly use this bathroom? You know?

Speaker 2 (02:45):
So is it a strategy to put someone else off
buying the house? Though?

Speaker 3 (02:50):
I think for the rental market it's probably more a
strategy for people, But I don't think for the selling side.
I think people are just having to go to the bathroom.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Wow. And so what other stories of did you have
of the kind of people coming through people's house, Because
if you're selling your house, you'd be horrified that someone's
just going to do a big number two?

Speaker 3 (03:09):
Oh? Absolutely, because it's not what you want at all.
For obvious reasons, you get. You get all sorts of things,
like people. The classic is they try and bring their
dogs in. That's not an uncommon one.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
Will they bring their dog into the house.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
Well, they try to. You're changing. You don't let them
bring it in, but they try to. They hide it down,
they jump off, they do all sorts of things.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
What about the time you've told me that someone was
an open for inspection for a rental and someone had
passed out on the bed.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
It was actually a sales open and someone had a
big night and they were quite not well. So we
had forty people lined up so he just wouldn't wake up.
He was okay, we was breathing. But I rolled him
up in the dinner and we had to open the home.
So people were coming out and saying, you know, there's
a bloke a sleep in the bed, rolled up in
the corner. I said, yeah, no, I put him there.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Don't worry about him. You'd have a you'd have some
sort of acronym for that sleeping tenant. It's got an
st lock up garage.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
So when you heard this story, what about people doing
number two's it's not weird to you. It's just you
have seen this time and time again.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
It's not surprising that people do that that people do
do that at all.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
I'm going to ask you this question. Have you ever
been called on and felt the need when you're in
someone's house?

Speaker 3 (04:27):
Never once changing, never once, that's always prepared.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
That's what the garden's for. Thank you, mister anonymous.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
Sorry mate, tell.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
You on about you and good Win on the Sharks
on the weekend.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
Yeah, well we were bad luck for the buddies.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
I think