For $2 million, my home is yours to tear down - Vancouver Courier

That means we have no idea who's been walking our hardwood, opening our cupboard doors or peeing in our toilet. Since then real estate-crazed trespassers have let themselves into our back yard through the side gate, walked across our lawn and flowers and snapped pictures of the house with the glee of paparazzi parked outside Hollywood's Mr. We don't even blink now when yet another $200,000 black Mercedes SLS stops in front of our home at 10 o'clock at night and the owner gets out to take pictures with their iPhone. The second open house was for "Realtors" and about 70 people dropped by, while an estimated 200 Lookie Loos were expected for the third open house this past Sunday. It was this last open house that sent me over the top. Prior to vacating for four hours, I printed off signs that read "Please Remove your Shoes" for the front and back doors and "Private" for our closets, which I also tied closed. My thought is that if you have the cash to buy this home I'll show you my closet, but there is no reason on earth my neighbours or Craigslist followers should get a look at my shoes (or skeletons). I also went completely over the top and wrapped toilet paper around our toilet because I decided no more strangers were going to pee in our home. By this time my partner was beginning to look at me as if I'd lost it, which to be truthful was pretty much the case, but I promise that toilet paper will be coming out again this weekend when the realtor hosts the fourth, and I hope, final open house. After witnessing first hand the extreme interest in this house, I laughed out loud last week when I saw an article in the Vancouver Sun with the headline "More sales listings bring balance to market. Instead, our $2 million home offers well-kept hardwood floors, rounded ceilings and lovely heritage roses planted by the original owner. All of our new neighbours are wealthy Asians, many of whom I've never laid eyes on. But in the past year or so I've made some headway and I'm now on a first-name basis with two neighbours. Realtors