When open houses get weird

The whole point of an open house is that anyone can come. Still, Dana Jackins, a real estate agent with Stansfield Signature, was pretty concerned when one guest slithered up to the door of a listing in Vienna, Va., right as the event was starting.

“One visitor for the open house came to me in the kitchen and whispered: ‘There’s a snake. I think it’s a copperhead,’” Jackins recalls.