Open house horror stories from readers

An open house or a private home showing can become a disaster with one wrong move or one simple mistake. Recently, we published a guide to open house etiquette and asked readers to submit their horror stories. Here are just some of the strange, and sometimes horrifying, things people have come across when seeing a house, either at an open house or a showing.
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Compiled by Carli Velocci, Boston.com Correspondent

An open house or a private home showing can become a disaster with one wrong move or one simple mistake. Recently, we published a guide to open house etiquette and asked readers to submit their horror stories.

Here are just some of the strange, and sometimes horrifying, things people have come across when seeing a house, either at an open house or a showing.