Usually when a foreclosure comes up for sale it is the vultures that are making the offers. However, in Hopkinton, Massachusetts the vultures are keeping the vultures out. That right, the reason the home is in foreclosure is that a group of turkey and black vultures invaded the property and made the home unlivable for the previous owners that they threw up their hands in disgust and moved away.

Now, if you were the real estate agent that had this listing, how would you market it? Remember that it is in the great state of Massachusetts so the wholesale slaughter of the birds may put you in jail before you can sell the property.

The previous owners blamed the huge birds for polluting their well, scaring their children, chasing their cats and causing myriad illnesses, but their presence hasn’t deterred Patrick Murray, a real-estate agent trying to sell the property. The house is not for everybody, Murray acknowledges. But for the right buyer, he says, the 1,746-square-foot, four-bedroom, two-story house on a .63-acre wooded lot could “make an excellent bird-watching bed-and-breakfast establishment.” “What am I supposed to do?” Murray asks rhetorically. “I’m trying to turn lemons into lemonade.” The house, which the bank took back in March after a foreclosure, sits empty…

The previous owners — Daniel and Sue Cullen, who bought the house in 2002 for $152,500 and lost it to foreclosure in August — have one message for prospective buyers: “Buyer beware.” With the vultures, Dan Cullen said, come liabilities. While he tried every technique he could think of to get rid of the birds, he also said last winter that he feared that he would somehow be held responsible if the birds moved elsewhere and contaminated someone else’s property. Town officials to whom the Cullens turned for help also cited their reluctance to get involved in a dispersal plan. They said they might be held liable. via insidebayarea.com

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