Broker Janice Silver of Bellmarc has seen it all, but the craziest couple she remembers had her acting as a real estate spy.

“A woman I knew was getting a divorce and she wanted me to secretly appraise her apartment while her husband was home,” she tells us. So Silver came up with a ruse and said she was a member of his wife’s bridge team.

But the husband, a lawyer, was immediately suspicious. “He looked at me and said, ‘Are you a broker?’” Silver didn’t get to scan much more of the apartment before she left. A month later, and Silver became friends with the wife as she went through a particularly nasty divorce.

The husband then decided he did want to sell their place, but Silver lost out on the sale “because he thought I was a bridge player, not a broker.” The house sat on the market for more than a year.

For Todd Stevens, a 14-year veteran with Douglas Elliman, the arguments weren’t marriage-ending chaos storms. Rather, he’d see couples bicker about the trickiest of Manhattan commodities – closet space.

“For some reason, closets seem to be the biggest point of conflict,” he says. “I’ve heard wives joke about sticking their husband in a closet.” Or a wife will announce that the three biggest closets will belong to her, and the linen closet goes to him.

Stevens also had a couple whose home purchase kept getting delayed. While the wife remained calm, the husband’s temper grew worse each day. "He threatened to come after me, he said he'd sue me," Stevens said.

It turned out the threats were idle, and the buyer had bigger problems afoot – when the sale did go through, the couple ended up calling it quits.

When you’re selling a home that belongs to a couple in turmoil, prepare to see some dirty laundry—literally. Silver had clients who were trying to get rid of their home, but the husband didn’t want to sell. His solution for showing disdain? “He was really mad and left a big pile of dirty underwear on the floor,” Silver said. “I had to use rubber gloves to shove it under the bed.”

She managed to sell the property, but says she now brings rubber gloves with her to every job, just in case.