We had this cute older couple move to town. They bought a one-story home. They decided the house had everything they wanted except wood floors. So they bought the house and waited to move in until their new flooring could be installed. Two weeks later the big days arrived.
The couple go over to the house and open the front door and the house immediately smells of gas. They call us (my real estate partner and I) worried what they should do. They didn’t go in and they were worried about now owning a house with a gas leak problem.
We tell them they need to call the gas company to determine the leak. And once we knew what the problem was we could determine what we could be done.
The next day they call us back and tell us the gas company had come out to the house. The inform us the gas company said that there was NO leak. Gas had indeed flowed freely into the house but it was from the fireplace. It was determined that the floor guy, as he crawled on his hands and knees, had bumped the gas switch (match light) on the fireplace with his rear end. This had caused the gas to flow freely and the house to smell of gas. It was very enlightening to learn that rear ends could cause more than one kind of gas problem!
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