Stranger showed up at our apartment unannounced

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That’s why I never answer the door (unless maybe I know the person, and sometimes even then). No good comes out of unannounced visits, ever.

The question I always have about this is that then the stranger thinks your house is unoccupied and may choose to break in.

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Anonymous wrote:I am hoping to do this someday. During the pandemic we rapidly moved from the high rise apartment in downtown NYC that I brought my newborns home to (they were by then toddlers) and haven't set for in it since the day we left (movers came and packed up our things without us). I'd love for them to be able to see it when they're old enough to remember. I was thinking about sending the tenants a letter request beforehand and bringing a gift if they say it's ok. It's a doorman building so not a big security risk of us trying to come back after.

No that’s weird.

Why?

[Anonymous]

We let in a college student that we 100% knew lived in the house before we had it. But I’d never in a million years let in a strange man.

[Anonymous]

I stalk my childhood home on Zillow and hope for it to go on the market so I can do a little lookie loo. I wouldn't just knock on their door though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Asking if he and his child could take a look at our apartment because they lived there years ago and the child was born there but has no memory of it. How would you have responded?

First of all if I'm not expecting you I won't open the door but if I did I would stare, blink about 3 times and shut the door in their face. Wtf. People are nuts.

[Anonymous]

I have no immune system due to disease no one comes to my apartment without a mask on and certainly no strangers I would not open the door.

[Anonymous]

Op you let them in didn't you???

[Anonymous]

We took pictures of my kids and nieces and nephews on my parents front steps every year when they were small. When we came back for a funeral, we asked if we could take the now adult kids picture on the front steps. They were very sweet about it. They asked us in but we declined....

[Anonymous]

I would never have opened the door. IDGAF about you or your kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Asking if he and his child could take a look at our apartment because they lived there years ago and the child was born there but has no memory of it. How would you have responded?

Never ever let a stranger in your home.

Never open the door to an unexpected visitor unless you have at least two chain locks in place.

[Anonymous]

Someone came to our parents’ house. It was a 1960s house so not that old but they lived there as a kid and asked to see around. My mom let them in. They took a tour, relayed some information about the house, thanked her and left.

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We let a really old couple and their son in. They were celebrating their 50th anniversary by coming back to DC to see the house they’d lived in a room in when they first got married. They had a photo that was unmistakably them in front of what was unmistakably our house 50 years ago. They were adorable. Turned out son went to my alma mater too, so we had a nice chat about that.

[Anonymous]

OMG you people. No wonder there is so little sense of community or just general kindness among people.

[Anonymous]

Absolutely not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We let a really old couple and their son in. They were celebrating their 50th anniversary by coming back to DC to see the house they’d lived in a room in when they first got married. They had a photo that was unmistakably them in front of what was unmistakably our house 50 years ago. They were adorable. Turned out son went to my alma mater too, so we had a nice chat about that.

Bringing a photo definitely makes it more credible.

I want to go back and show my kids my yard and the tree I used to climb to the top of. I think I might be brave enough to ask to visit the yard but not the inside.