Courtesy of Amber Sessions(REXBURG, Idaho) -- Even in this economy, a picture-perfect five bedroom rural home that lists for just over a $100,000 might seem like a real deal. Except for the fact this home is known by locals in Rexburg, Idaho as the "snake house" because it apparently sits on a nest of non-poisonous garter snakes.



The home has had a fraught history of owners leaving in haste. Now owned by Chase bank, it was on the market briefly in January and then taken off again.



In September 2009, it seemed like the ideal home for the growing Sessions family. Ben and Amber Sessions got it for what seemed like a steal, paying less than $180,000. But soon after moving in, they found snakes slithering inside the residence and all around the property.



"After we moved in, it was really horrible," Amber Sessions told ABC News. "There were snakes in the walls. We could hear them and then our water tasted like how they smell."



Sessions said they trusted their real estate agent, who, she claimed, told them the snake problem was "made up" by the previous owners so that they could leave their mortgage behind. He assured them that every precaution was made to keep the snakes away, she said.



But shortly after they moved in, Amber Sessions saw eight snakes in one day. She texted her agent, she said, and he told her he was going to help them take care of it with traps.



The problem just kept getting worse and three months after they moved in, Amber Sessions, who was pregnant at the time, had enough of what seemed like the serpent house of horrors. She said she got so scared about coming across a surprise snake in the house that she was worried she would miscarry.



"One day, we caught 43 snakes in total and that was it. The next morning I almost stepped on one in our house and I had enough, we can't do this anymore," she told ABC News. "I don't know how we stayed there as long as we did."



The Sessions family eventually abandoned the home in December 2009, a day after their daughter was born and three months after they moved in.



Real estate experts say the Sessions' story is a hard-learned lesson in the importance of due diligence when searching for your dream home.



"This is a buyer beware nation," New York City broker Brian Lewis told ABC News. "You have to do your research because if you don't do your research, you end up with a house full of snakes."﻿

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