What unexpected hidden gem have you discovered after buying your home? – 17 surprising secret features
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‘A large mason jar filled with a bunch of old silver coins. This was back in 2016. The previous home owners were retiring to Florida. When the offer was accepted below asking price (they did buy it around 1965 in San Diego and it sold for 10x more) the old man showed everything about the home, what he did, the odds and ends and what to watch out for.
‘Ended up contacting the selling realtor and shipping it to him. Months later I got a check for the shipping price and 1940 mercury dime that I’ve been using as a golf ball marker ever since.’
-SargeDonnyDonowitz
11.
‘I bought 18 acres of land in Maine. When I had it surveyed, I found that I owned 4 extra acres.’
-oilman300
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‘Newspapers from 1928 underneath the tile/vinyl/rubber floors. They have advertisements for coal and ice and Vaudeville shows with blackface characters, Calvin Coolidge shooting a shotgun on the front page, and the big sports story was 2 completed forward passes in a football game.’
-Ender914
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‘A strawberry patch in the back yard. We bought the house in the winter so we didn’t discover it until the spring. We have enjoyed it ever since. We also found a bunch of old fashioned skeleton keys in a cupboard. All the doors had been replaced in the house so they didn’t fit anything but they are a novelty. We have them displayed on a shadow box.’
-Nice_Ad4063
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‘A creepy as shit mural painted on a front room wall that was invisible at first glance because it was painted in that UV fluorescent paint. It seriously creeped us out.’
-Pickles_McBeef
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‘I owned a terraced house in Surrey, England in the 80s. It was quite old but had a long back garden. One summer I decided I’d dig a flowerbed along one fence. As I was nearing the end of the garden, I hit some metal so digging was taking a while. During that time, the old lady who lived next door wandered down and told me “there’s a car under there”.
‘She had lived there all her life and told me that in the late 30s, prior owners had a car accident and wrote off their car. They dug a big pit at the end of the garden and rolled the car into it. I was digging up part of the chassis, the cables for the brakes and a bit of the floor. I stopped digging then. I have no clue if it has caved in since then.’
-r7-arr
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‘Found a secret room behind a bookshelf, like something outta a spy movie. Turns out, it’s a perfect hideaway for all my junk’
-daphnepinkie
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‘When my wife and I bought our forever home, I kept finding railway spikes ( a few) everytime I would drag the gravel driveway. My great-grandfather on my dad’s side (died before I was born) used to own a logging business just a few miles from here.
‘Did some digging into it and found that all of the logs in my log home came from his business in the 60’s. It’s kind of nice to think that this home was meant to be mine.’
-Legitimate-Winter748
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