Since REO Expo launched its contest last week soliciting agents and brokers to share their greatest REO accomplishment, the stories have been pouring in. After all, the winner gets into REO Expo for free, along with a hotel stay during the event and two runners up also get to attend REO Expo for free. Some of the stories are inspirational, others down right funny. And this one, a bit morbid:

“The toughest was some years back (1990’s), it’s not a happy one by any means and left all involved sad, tired and hope to never to go through that again.

I lived outside of San Diego for a few years and this took place in that state. The property was tenant occupied and the homeowner was a piece of work and would not cooperate in any regard except to try to collect rent from the tenants after the property became an REO.

Anyway, myself, the property manager from the aforementioned owner, went to the house to offer assistance for a relocation. They had moved from Florida, a mother and her 20-year-old son, about 9 months earlier and found this home to rent. They did not answer the door so we started to walk around the property… and saw a body on the floor in one of the bedrooms, blood spatter on the wall.

Of course the police were called immediately. It was a double homicide with the mother found in one of the other bedrooms. They had been there for four days if I remember correctly. The murderer had chased them through the home with a knife as knife marks were on the bedroom doors, walls, kitchen cabinets along with bloodstains.

Well, of course, everything shut down on our end until the detectives finished the investigation. It was a difficult preservation task to say the least, but done quickly by the team of pros equipped for the task. The news of this murder was all over the papers and a topic of conversation. However at a price every property will sell even with such a bad ending for the poor tenants, to an “investor”. God loves investors. The police did find the suspect/ murderer.”

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