You live long enough and buy and flip foreclosures and pretty soon you would see everything under the sun in these foreclosures but last week…

I walked in to one Oakland county foreclosure that was in very good shape. The bank has actually gotten the foreclosure cleaned up and apart from the rust on the kitchen stove; this house was in very good shape. There was nothing in this house – completely vacant. Yet when I walked down in to the finished basement there was, sitting in a corner, a pretty big fish tank with 4 big gold and yellow fishes swimming happily. I have no idea how these fishes have been there without any food? My contractor felt so bad that he ran to the store and bought some fish food back for them.

If that was not strange enough, in the very next foreclosure I discovered pages torn from the Bible and taped on every entrance of the house. There was a big handmade cross nailed to the entrance of the basement. I have seen The Blair Witch Project and I remember the basement scene at the very end of the movie. Turns out my contractor have seen the movie too. We both looked at each other, waiting for the other guy to go into the basement and after a minute we just both walked out of the house. I can’t remember the last time a house creep me out this way.

What was the strangest thing you ever saw in an empty foreclosure in Michigan? Email me at goldfish@markijlal.com if you found something totally crazy when you were on the road looking at foreclosures in your Michigan city.