I understand what you mean about giving up trying to figure them out. In 2008 we bought a short sale house. They had taken all of the light fixtures down except the bathroom ones. They took the kitchen cabinets out and the downstairs bathroom cabinet out. The counters were leaning against the wall in the family room. They cut out all of the plugs in the kitchen. Thankfully my husband was an electrician so that was free to fix. They also cut the pipes to the water softener. But the house looked virtually unlived in otherwise. None of the cabinets looked like they had ever been used. The only room in the house that had furniture marks was the downstairs den and it was the only bedroom that had minimal water marks. It was the strangest thing ever. I really wish I could have found out the story on that one but none of the neighbors knew. Just that one renter was in it for just a little while.