My mom and her siblings have done this 10+ years ago. (They're 60-75 now.) People always let them in!

The adult grandchildren of the man who built my childhood home did this when I was younger. The house is over 130 years old and has some interesting quirks that they grew up hearing about and we really enjoyed hearing the backstory.

If I'm a single woman living alone, probably no. If I have a strong man with me- probably yes. I'd listen to my intuition above everything though

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 no never. I grew up in an old house that had been in the family for generations but in the middle of nowhere. Some woman showed up when we were home after school alone and said she lived in the house growing up and wanted to come in and see the house. We knew she hadn't lived there but wouldn't leave and kept banging on the door and walking around the house. We called the police but my brother also snuck out and ran to our far off neighbors house. They came back with their shotgun. She never came back. It was scary and freaky and she never did live there!

Found it! She did break in! Here’s the intro paragraph

Goldie's Haven
By Hanna Rosin
May 14, 2005
Every year or two Goldie Hawn drives back to the brick duplex on the dead-end street in Takoma Park where she grew up. Sometimes she comes alone and sometimes with her sister Patti, or her old friend from childhood Jean Lynn, or her partner of 20 years, Kurt Russell. If there's no one home she finds a neighbor to let her in; once there was no neighbor around, so she sneaked in through a front window the owner had left unlocked, and then wandered around, through the kitchen where the family used to hang out, down to the basement, up to her old bedroom.

Anonymous wrote:Goldie Hawn grew up in Takoma Park and would reportedly drop in to see her old house unannounced. I don’t think I’d let randoms in though.

Didn’t she actually break in? I know the WaPo had an article about this a while back…

Maybe if they could show me a picture of them in the house.

When I go to my hometown we drive up the driveway of the house I grew up in. It’s a long driveway and you can’t see the house from the street. I get nervous doing that but it’s such a pull to see it.

Anonymous wrote:Goldie Hawn grew up in Takoma Park and would reportedly drop in to see her old house unannounced. I don’t think I’d let randoms in though.

I wouldn't let Goldie in either. Unannounced? Rude AF.

Goldie Hawn grew up in Takoma Park and would reportedly drop in to see her old house unannounced. I don’t think I’d let randoms in though.

No? But I have had a longing to show my family the house I lived in for six years. Really, not the interior so much as the yard and wrap around porch. I would never bother the people who lived there though.

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?

How did they get in the building?

No, would not have answered the door.

I mean, he was probably telling the truth, but not worth the risk.

We did this once about 35 years ago and it wasn’t weird but I would never do it now.