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My husband and I sold our spotless smart home after professionally deep-cleaning everything.<\/p>\n
Three weeks later, we received a letter from the new owners.<\/p>\n
They claimed our dogs had left a horrible smell in the house\u2014and demanded $10,000<\/strong> to replace the carpets.<\/p>\n We were stunned.<\/p>\n Our realtor told us the house had been perfectly clean when we sold it.<\/p>\n Then my husband had an idea.<\/p>\n We had forgotten to disconnect the smart-home app.<\/p>\n So that night, he changed the thermostat.<\/p>\n At 2 a.m., the house became unbearably hot.<\/p>\n The next night?<\/p>\n Freezing cold.<\/strong><\/p>\n Soon, the new owners were calling every day, complaining that the thermostat was \u201cpossessed.\u201d<\/p>\n They hired multiple HVAC technicians, but nobody could figure it out.<\/p>\n The wife even started burning sage, convinced the house was haunted by our dogs!<\/p>\n Then, weeks later, they finally reset the system and locked us out.<\/p>\n But months afterward, I ran into the woman at the grocery store.<\/p>\n She told me she could still feel a strange presence in the house.<\/p>\n I smiled and said:<\/p>\n \u201cMaybe next time, think twice before demanding $10,000 for imaginary dog smells.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Sometimes karma needs a little help\u2026<\/p>\n and ours came with a temperature-control app.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My husband and I sold our spotless smart home after professionally deep-cleaning everything. Three weeks later, we received a letter from the new owners. They claimed our dogs had left a horrible smell in the house\u2014and demanded $10,000 to replace the carpets. We were stunned. Our realtor told us the house had been perfectly …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11007,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11005\/revisions\/11007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}