Realtor's Discovery Inside Home Is Guaranteed to 'Make You Cry'

This realtor often shares social-media videos to document the process of buying and selling a home, but one of her recent clips explaining the emotional reason for paint on the floor has left internet users in tears.

Caroline Holman posted on TikTok (@realtoroftheyear) to share that she was doing a final run through of the home in Wilmington, North Carolina, when she noticed the green paw prints dotted around the guest bedroom. In the clip, she says that the sellers were painting when their dog walked into the paint and traipsed it around the room, but after the pup sadly passed away, they didn't have the heart to get rid of the paw prints.

After learning the back story to stains on the floor, Holman, 30, told Newsweek that she "just melted" and as a dog owner herself, she totally understood why the sellers kept them.

"There were probably seven paw prints in total, and they wrapped around the door, too. I don't know what kind of dog it was, but it must have been a large breed as they were very spaced out," Holman, from Nest Realty and The Costin Group, said.

However, the flooring was "beyond repair"; and it was set to be ripped apart shortly after Holman posted the video that would "make you cry on a Monday morning." But with the help of social media, she and the buyer came up with an adorable plan to preserve the paw prints.

She said: "My buyer thought it was absolutely adorable, and as we're both huge dog people, we both said we would have done the same thing and left them forever. I knew the story of the pawprints was not going to be one we could forget. After I shared it on social media, I started getting comments with the idea to save them for the sellers, which was brilliant.

"My buyer had the flooring guys save as much as they could, and we're going to put it together in some form and gift it to the sellers. I loved the idea to preserve the flooring, and the timing worked out so well because the flooring guys came the same day I posted the video," Holman added.

Since the TikTok clip about the paw prints that can "never be wiped up" was shared on April 23, it has been viewed over 805,300 times and gained more than 98,900 likes already. If it hadn't been for the overwhelming reaction to her video, Holman says that she may not have thought about saving the flooring for the seller.

Now, it has become such a wonderfully elaborate plan, even the listing agent is in on it too, and everyone is so excited to surprise the seller with this unexpected gesture. They may be leaving this house, but they will always get to keep a piece of it with them.

Holman is so grateful to the 240-plus people who have already commented on her video with ideas to preserve the paw prints. One comment reads: "Have them send the sellers the boards with the paint."

Another person wrote: "But why not have them save the tiles and make a frame for the old homeowners."

Others posted that they couldn't possibly leave the home if it carried so much sentiment. One TikTok user responded: "The way I would never sell my house. I would cancel the contract and move back."

"I'd never change the flooring! I'd make it KNOWN to not change the flooring to all my kids," another person added.

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