This would be a shock.

I heard a report on the news this evening about the reopening of an investigation into the deaths of a wealthy couple in California.  Evidently at first it was assumed that the two hanged people had committed suicide but some new evidence is pointing to murder. None of that would have caught my interest but the next statement did. "The bodies were discovered by their Realtor when he came to set up for an open house."  Talk about a nasty shock.  I was a Realtor for 20 years and walked in on some interesting and unexpected scenes from time to time; people sleeping in what was supposed to be a vacant house, a crow caught in a bedroom, dishes stacked to the ceiling in a kitchen sink because the sellers had been told to clean off the counter tops to name a few.  Once, on a group tour to see a new listing, we walked in on a couple (guests of the owners) having sex on the livingroom floor. Their hosts had forgotten to mention that we would be coming. But never, never did I ever find dead bodies in a house where I was planning to hold an open house. I'm pretty sure that would have brought my real estate career to a screeching halt.  No mention in the report if the Realtor managed to sell the house. I'm guessing not but my nasty, mystery loving mind envisions a scene where the Realtor, having found the bodies, but knowing that he has already spent a bundle on advertising, locks the bedroom door, goes ahead with the open house and then calls the police.  Just kidding, I know that would never happen.