Rod Meyer - Crazy Sh*t In Real Estate with Leigh Brown - Episode #162

Want to imagine what a flooded home filled with 60 cats smells
like? Well, no need to guess because Rod Meyer can tell you! Rod
Meyer is a REALTOR from Grand Forks, North Dakota whose whole
family is in real estate. Tune in hear about the destroyed “cat
house” (that sold!) and the silly things he’s had to do to get
approval from FHA appraisers.


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Time Stamped Show Notes:


00:50 – Introducing Rod, a REALTOR of 10 years in Grand
Forks, ND; he and his wife have a brokerage and he feels he’s a
magnet for strange real estate happenings

01:35 – All four of his kids are in real estate in one way or
another; his wife thinks everyone should sell real estate

02:40 – They all talk about real estate around the dinner
table

03:00 – CSIRE stories

03:10 – His wife walked into a home when the owner said,
“Come on in, it’s open” and the man was sitting on the couch in
his underwear smoking a doobie

03:15 – Rod’s attorney friend asked him to look at a property
on a sunny day at 20 below with three feet of snow

03:30 – They walked into the house and walked back out
because of the smell; there was four feet of water in the
basement from broken pipes

04:08 – The neighbor was supposed to be in charge of the
propane tank to keep the heat on all winter but had forgotten

04:25 – He and his son pumped the water out; there were 60
cats on the property that had been crawling through the ducts

05:30 – They listed the property for $100,000, it was 15
acres on a creek, and it got sold; the guy eventually got
divorced and built a new house

07:15 – It took two days to pump the water out and there was
cat hair everywhere; beds and clothes were floating everywhere

08:55 – He’s shocked that someone bought it; there’s a buyer
for everything

10:20 – Silly FHA loan requirements

11:40 – Rod had to paint a chicken coop and garage off the
property per the request of an appraiser; the husband of the
seller had died shoveling snow

14:00 – How to reach Rod: email meyerr6@gmail.com or by phone
(701)739-1716



3 Key Points


There’s a buyer for everything!

Sometimes appraiser requirements are silly.

The real estate is NOT like what you see on HGTV.