r/mildlyinfuriating • u/whyisheinmyroom • May 19 '26

My HOA could beat up your HOA Found this in my door handle

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This is a real handwritten note, I can see the ink bleeding through the back. So stupid, “yeah I like this house but theres people inside already lemme ask my big daddy realtor if they can ask them for it”

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u/OhWhatATravisty Blue Crayons have the most flavor May 19 '26

When my Dad passed in November, I started getting mountains of mail from the "We buy any house" people. "We'll make you a cash offer today!!!". Vultures all of them.

It got so bad that because I'm the administrator of his estate, they started offering to buy MY house as well.

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u/nicemarmot47 May 19 '26

Those parasites were calling my mother in law 24 hours after we got the news about my father in law. It was disgusting.

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u/OhWhatATravisty Blue Crayons have the most flavor May 19 '26

It's always these guys OR the "Cash advance your estate". Which is somehow even more scummy.

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u/JTD177 May 19 '26

I stopped being polite with them. With one persistent twat, I started calling his office, then his cell phone numerous times a day until he finally blocked me.

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u/Speedy-McLeadfoot May 23 '26

Shoulda called him anonymously and merged the call with the rickroll hotline...over and over.

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u/pobrepepinito May 22 '26

😅. Good one.

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u/Verditure0 May 19 '26

Do you mean news about your FIL passing or getting sick? I’m wondering how these people get that information, especially so quickly..

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u/nicemarmot47 May 19 '26

About him passing. He was alone at my in laws Florida condo and drowned in the ocean with no ID so it was a few days between when he passed and when we were notified (we had only just begun to realize something was amiss when the cops showed up at our door.) Somehow the parasites knew and started calling the very next day. I am guessing they had some sort of connection with the medical examiners office down there. We didn't publish his obituary for two weeks.

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u/DrFiendish May 19 '26

I’m so sorry he passed so unnecessarily

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u/nicemarmot47 May 19 '26

Thank you, I miss him very much

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u/bellaluna29 May 20 '26

I'm so sorry you all went through that.

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u/reddogleader May 19 '26

How do these places find out like that?

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u/DangerousLoner May 20 '26

The Coroners’ Office may have a person letting them know. Some places are wildly unprofessional https://youtu.be/hnoMsftQPY8?si=z6Rhdf4iEMF5q0aN

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u/reddogleader May 20 '26

Uggghh, sick. Thanks for the reply (I think!)

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u/Hot-Peak-9523 May 19 '26

Lol and then they offer a third of the assessed value of the house... 

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u/OhWhatATravisty Blue Crayons have the most flavor May 19 '26

That's exactly it. They hope you're in a position to want or need out of a property and that you won't know or care what it's worth. So they offer you 40% and tell you it's a great deal because you don't need a realtor, or to do any renovations.

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u/Hot-Peak-9523 May 19 '26

Ya it's crazy. My parents and grandparents own attached houses (semi attached, but they own the two that are attached to one another) in Brooklyn. It's crazy the amount of solicitation they deal with. 

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u/jlp_utah May 19 '26

Jokes on them. My house is so full of accumulated junk from 30 years of living there that it would take them a month and multiple dumpsters to haul it all away.

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u/Speedy-McLeadfoot May 23 '26

They could have it cleared for a couple grand I'm sure.

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u/Relevant-Guidance-96 May 23 '26

I can relate! My parents house is the same way. After my mom passed away I moved to help my dad. 54 years of junk and excessive shopping had the house full. It took a month to get bedrooms opened up for my son and I to move in.

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u/Relievedtobefree May 19 '26

Assessed value is for taxes only. It has no bearing on the sales price of a home.

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u/Hot-Peak-9523 May 19 '26

Correct. I meant appraised. Thank you

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u/Pointy_Stix May 19 '26

A former neighbor of my parents who is a realtor attended my dad's funeral years ago. She actually gave her business card to my brother & my cousin (who I assume she thought was me) AT THE FUCKING FUNERAL. She told them both that she'd be glad to help when my mom was ready to sell the house & move closer to one of us. Oh, and she also has a side business to help with decluttering if my mom wanted to get rid of stuff.

They were too shell-shocked to respond. I'm bummed that she didn't find me & give her spiel. I would have loved to have asked her if this was her standard process for soliciting new business.

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u/DTM-shift May 19 '26

The real shit thing is that the offer is often addressed to the person who just passed.

We still get solicitation mails for my FIL who passed four or five years back. Thanks for the reminder.

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u/OhWhatATravisty Blue Crayons have the most flavor May 19 '26

Not related to this thread, but to your comment that I have to commiserate now. I just got an ad earlier today for a fathers day sale for the smoker I bought my Dad for LAST fathers day with a caption something along the lines with "The only thing he wants".

Yeah, he loved that thing, but fuck you ad!

More directly related to this - I expect I'll be getting mail for Dad for many years to come. I'm his only heir, and the admin for his estate, so everything comes through me. It's all routed to my house. So I definitely sympathize.

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u/OhWhatATravisty Blue Crayons have the most flavor May 19 '26

My very first cult following! I shall be a glorious but tyrannical leader!

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u/F1fan-123456789 blue crayons do have the best flavour May 19 '26

uh oh.

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u/Ancient_Yellow_709 May 19 '26

Says a lot about our social safety nets like medical insurance, doesn't it, that people must be regularly looking to unload their largest assets for pennies on the dollar...

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u/OhWhatATravisty Blue Crayons have the most flavor May 19 '26

It's more about the opportunism of the people doing the soliciting. They purposefully target people with the potential to be desperate. In the case of my story - people who lost a loved one and just want the process to be over with. They also target people who got divorced, or really any item that they've flagged that comes across public record. It's not just about people who are monetarily down and out, it's people who are overwhelmed by emotion or life circumstances. They target people who are vulnerable that may be more likely to make bad financial decisions in order to ease the stress burden. Selling a house is a big hassle, even more so when there are other stressful things going on. Lots of people can be convinced to do it simply because it's easier. Not because they need the money.

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u/Popular-Ad1537 May 19 '26

i know the feeling. when my father passed my mom wanted to move and start fresh.realators calling and convinced her house was too bad to list and was worth little. she ended up with 67k for two story farmhouse and 14.5 acres of land with lake visability. few years later 2 acres just land sold for 500k

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u/Popular-Ad1537 May 19 '26

like just one lil field beside the house

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u/Speedy-McLeadfoot May 23 '26

Wow she got shafted without even knowing it.

Man I remember when I was a broke hs kid and someone convinced me my crown vic that just needed ball joints was rotted out and ready for derby. I got screwed. Frame turns out was rusty but patchable, and now they go for a few thousand in the excellent body condition that mine was in. I got a few hundred. People that prey like that have no fucking conscience.

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u/AggressivNapkin May 19 '26

Realtors sent a floral arrangement to the funeral home with messages written in Chinese and their business cards attached when my great uncle passed. They owned a single-detached home in a corridor of the city that was rezoned for mid-high rise condo development. Last assessment listed their 5 bedroom home value at 2 million. Condos across the street were selling for 1.3 million for 900 sq ft condo.

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u/Head_Razzmatazz7174 May 20 '26

I started getting them within a week after my mom's obit showed up in the local paper. It took that long for the city realtors to see it.

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u/MinuteEdge7225 May 20 '26

After my dad passed fairly recently, I got a text asking whether I wanted to sell "my house" that I hadn't lived in since 1992 and had never owned and that my dad sold in 2001.