House hunting can be scary, for sure! Realtors are brave folks! Here's a funny for you, Connie, if you want ... when I was looking for my first place (my mother and I decided we'd both be happier if I moved out, LOL, before she got remarried ... I was just finishing up college, and wanted to lose money in a mortgage instead of rent), we looked at all the small houses in our area. We found the most adorable, gorgeous place downtown, convenient to everything, just above our price point, sold by the sweetest old couple. My mom had a rule that you should always peek in the attic, though she admitted she couldn't articulate WHY she had that rule ... it just seemed a good thought. So we peeked in the attic ... and every beam in that attic was charred through! Clearly they'd had a bad house fire at some point, and done some fantastic cosmetic work on everything but the attic ... which is why it looked so great. They pretended surprise, that they had no idea it was like that, or why. We decided to pass on that one ... no way to verify structural integrity ... but to this day, I wonder what on earth the story behind that burned attic was... and who ended up with it ...