[surferguy]

Back in May my wife and I purchased a place in Calgary on the west side.

We dove in even though 95% of people would have walked right back out after stepping foot in the door.

The place was a mess, I will call it border line hoarder but not stacked to the roof. Anyway we closed the deal and then had to give 3 month notice to the renters to move. (I can handle the renovations and repairs and we wanted a handyman house)

So the last week of August rolls around and we get a call to bump up our possession as the renters will be out Aug 1. Great!

Well the day we get possession the house is a mess, an absolute mess! The former owner had three guys on site hauling out the renters leave behinds. SEVEN truckloads and a full bin of garbage left this place. It was nasty.

Nothing a crew of friends couldn't handle though, we scrubbed and put in over 150 man hours on the August long just to get the main floor sanitized. We are now moved in and are working on the basement to get it prepped for a buddy to move in.

Well we found that the carpet was ruined due to cat piss, so we tore that out as well as the drop ceiling. When we did that it rained cat #### on us from the joists. Then i swept and scrubbed in behind the furnace where I found another pile of cat ####, this time about the size of a ice cream pail. gross.

Anyway we have a heap of work ahead of us, but we are up for the challenge!

Here is the kicker for everybody who is still reading this long winded story.

This house was a former day home!!!

I was shocked to see the condition of this home and the yard and know it was a day home. The toilet downstairs wouldn't flush and the sink upstairs wouldn't drain. Who leaves their kids at a place like this?

Well today I found out, when at seven am the first of 4 parents showed up to drop their kids off at the "day home". I had to break the news to them that I had bought the house and the day home was no longer there.

The parents were not told the house was sold and that the day home was moving, yet as I was told by each parent they had already paid for August!

I guess the former renters told the parents they would be on vacation from Aug 1-19 and the place was looking "a bit bare" as the landlords were "going to be painting".

So from what I can amass the former renter took off with about 3800 bucks on August 1 and much to my surprise I had some dumbfounded parents to deal with at 7 am today.

The long and short of it, consider this a reminder to take a look around where you are dropping your kids off everyday, this creep is still out there somewhere.

I dearly hope this guy is caught.

I will keep you posted on any more surprises this place reveals.

Ohh and I found a dead bird in the wall.