Woman sells house while cheating husband is away on business trip

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The 42-year-old wife took action after she found incriminating text messages on her husband's cellphone when he left it during one of his many business trips to New York. An unknown number texted him about an intimate meeting he could expect when he arrived in the States.

In an act of revenge, Laura, whose parents had taken over the mortgage when the couple ran into financial troubles, posted the property on www.sellhousefast.uk. It sold in less than two weeks.

"All the lights were on, and the TV was blaring," he told The Sunday Mercury. "I remember thinking it was really out of character for Laura to be up past 11 p.m. I had no idea what on Earth was going on. At this point I was seriously freaked out, jet-lagged and frantic. I started banging on the door and shouting Laura's name but was greeted instead by what looked like a 21-year-old hippie."

He continued: "I noticed all Laura’s furniture was gone, but the chairs and tables I’d inherited from my late father, plus my set of golf clubs and vintage radio, which Laura always hated, was sitting on the kitchen table in all its glory. She’d included my most-prized possessions in the ‘fixtures and fittings.' I was gutted. I still can’t get my head around how she did this in the space of a two-week holiday.”

"Looking back now, I suppose Mrs. Arnolds did seem unusually desperate to sell up and pretty urgently, but at the time I thought nothing of it," a spokesman for www.sellhousefast.uk said.

“I made a mistake and paid for it dearly. I was very annoyed at first, but life is too short to dwell on these things, and I made the decision that for the children’s sake, we should stop the hostilities," Craig Arnolds said. "(But that's the) last time I marry an Italian, that’s for sure."