Is This Patio Snake Real or a Fake?

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Stichter snake!Update 10:04 am: Yikes! Now there are two snakes on the patio!

New listing here, and this big fat snake shows up in the photo of the back patio. Is that a real snake or a fake serpent? I had one for years — kept it outside on the lawn chairs to keep birds and critters away. It freaked out the lawn guys and the pool cleaners. In fact, seems like that poor rubber snake bit the dust a few years ago.

This is a beautiful new listing of a gorgeous home at 6541 Stichter, whose interiors are just a little too “old-world” for me. Nothing that cannot be changed with a couple cans of paint. Look at the vitals: “a Kienast Custom home with a salt water pool, full cabana with bar, terrace and fireplace.” A cabana with full bar? Right on! The home has an open floor plan with a granite-laden kitchen decked to the nines with Sub Zero, a spacious family room, to-die-for master suite down AND another bedroom down, too. Altogether, 5441 square feet, four bedrooms, four full and two half baths. Asking $1,850,000 and new to the market April 6, listed with Danna and Martha Morguloff. The owners even added an iron door to the master bedroom from the patio for added security.

So why, I ask, is there a big fat snake on the patio??? Stichter ext

Candy Evans, founder and publisher of CandysDirt.com, is one of the nation’s leading real estate reporters.

7 Comments

  1. jojo on April 7, 2015 at 5:29 am

    i see two snakes. one between the table and the camera. another sneaking off into the corner between the table & the fireplace. creeptacular.

  2. Britt on April 7, 2015 at 10:43 am

    That picture would totally turn me off from looking at the house. I’d be looking for snakes everywhere!! Yuck!

  3. Cara on April 7, 2015 at 10:53 am

    Please do an update if you find out!

  4. Joanna England on April 7, 2015 at 11:27 am

    Please, please, PLEASE let it be fake! OMG. I would just die. I feel for that poor photographer!

  5. Snakes on a patio! on April 7, 2015 at 4:52 pm

    The big one looks like a rattlesnake, which I find hard to believe could still be alive at that size, given the surrounding area. Also, I’ve never encountered a rattlesnake that didn’t curl up into a protective position if it sensed something close. Maybe it’s a pet?!

    These are likely decoys the owner uses to scare off birds from their patio.

    Plus, if that was a real rattlesnake, the photo would be more blurry from the photographer running to save their life!

  6. LonestarBabs on April 7, 2015 at 8:11 pm

    I think the one in front of the fireplace is real. EEEEEEEEKKKKKK!!!!!

  7. Mark Wilder on April 8, 2015 at 12:19 pm

    Those would be enough for me not to buy that house…..I’d be out the door quicker than a realtor looking for her commission check….

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