I did an inspection for a multi-million dollar house a couple of years go. The purchaser was a Japanese investor who wasn’t even going to live in it. When I went to do the inspeciton I couldnt’ find the house. Called th realtor and she remembered that the addy had been changed and gave me the new one. The guy wanted the house, but was going to back out fo the deal if the number couldn’t be changed, lol! Needless to day, the realtor didn’t mind going out of her way to walk the change through whichever department it is that does such things.

When are you going to start bloggin? You have so many interesting stories in you!

(This happened when I was a kid, so I don’t know the details of how it was accomplished, but I didn’t get the impression that it was a lot of trouble.)

We live on a flag lot and our house number had a letter after it - all the houses on the driveway had the same number followed by a letter. This sometimes caused confusion for mail carriers, newspaper delivery kids and people who presumed from our address that we lived in an apartment complex or condo. Then we ended up with overlapping names - only two first names and two last names between the 3 homeowners. Crazy. We were getting the wrong mail on a regular basis.

Eventually we found out that there was a whole sequence of open numbers between the properties on the driveway closer to the corner and ours, so my dad changed our house number to a standalone number that fit into that gap. Later the new next door neighbors liked the idea so much that they changed their house number too, so as far as I know only the first house at the bottom of the hill still has the original number.