The last guests checked out of this former guest house a long time ago, the abandoned glasses and bottles all that was left to show this property's former life.
The star of a Homes Under The Hammer episode, it stole all the attention for a number of reasons.
It was dated and looked abandoned but its conversion surely made it one of the best House of Multiple Occupation (HMO) in the area once it was transformed despite a three-figure overspend.
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When looking around the double fronted stone property in Little Hulton area of Salford in the Greater Manchester area before it went to auction the outside impressed him, but the 'bendy' partition walls that Dion could almost push over were not a great selling point inside and neither was the array of abandoned items still strewn across the property.
Dion was on the case, snooping around to get to know the history of this property. Hints were all over the ground floor; room plaques like 'bar lounge' on doors, bar optics, empty bottles and glasses inside.
Each room had dated décor and items abandoned gathering dust but there was one room upstairs that stumped Dion. Probably the smallest bedroom in the area and it had a secret door hidden in the wall through to the adjoining bedroom.
Dion's advice for this odd space was to knock the stud-partition wall down and make the bedroom bigger and 'get rid of that Scooby Doo door and then it'll be Scooby snacks all round!'.
Elsewhere there was water damage, damp and old gas appliances and lots of items left by previous occupants but the property also offered oodles of space inside and even some spooky outbuildings hiding in the garden completely covered in foliage, so bags of potential.
It went to auction with a guide price of £90,000 and was bought by experienced developer Anthony and his brother Steven.
The pair were keen to join Scooby's gang and get stuck into converting this shabby house into a HMO within six months and setting themselves a budget of between £40,000 to £50,000.
When the programme returned to see what they'd done two years later the house was truly unrecognisable.
Now a five bedroom, five ensuite HMO including a very smart and modern kitchen diner, the house has been given a full renovation, from top to bottom, back to front.
There are no more monster damp patches and the weird little bedroom where ghouls can hide is no more.
Anthony and his girlfriend Tracey decided that the interior design of the new five bed HMO should subtly reflect the property's past as a licensed guest house with bar with name plaques of drinks on the wall and upcycled beer barrels in the garden.
The outbuildings hiding in the foliage are gone and in their place a garden that has been designed to reflect and pay homage to what it once was, a beer garden, with name plaques of drinks on the wall and upcycled beer barrels in the garden.
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And in a corner of the garden what no-one will be expecting at a HMO - a hot tub. Turn around the other corner and you'll find a sauna and a shower - this is one posh HMO.
Anthony says the tenants are charged a small fee to use them for their running and maintenance. And no wonder. The cost of the refurbishment was huge. There was rewiring, replumbing, a new boiler fitted and all the layout changes and fancy extras has added up and surely not still within the original budget of £40k to £50k?
In surely one of the biggest overspends the series must have seen, the cost was £170,000 - an eye-watering £120,000 overspend. However, the estate agent now values the house at between £425,000 and £450,000 with a rental yield of about 12% based on full occupancy.
This story is in series 24, episode 56, currently still available to watch on BBC iPlayer.
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