One of my friends went through this a couple of years ago, only it was his dad's house, and his dad had died there and wasn't discovered for about a week.

I saw the place after he had it cleaned up, but the story he told about cleaning it was nearly enough to make my puke.

Yeah - they paid for the house and then some. You are probably going to come out of this just fine.

yup. i pulled up to a customers house one day. i knew i was in trouble when the pickup in back was absolutely filled with those heavy duty stretch trash bags. overflowing actually.
kid let me inside, he was having problems with his internet. told me just to follow him (and the path).
every single kind of fast food box, wrapper, cups. everything. looked like the picture above--except for one small thing. add 3 feet in depth. it was horrifying.
when i diagnosed the problem to the kid, he couldn't understand how roaches could lay eggs and corrupt his cable modem. i won't even go into detail on that experience. probably too much for some of you hardasses!!!:D

This, I mean 25 years with the same tenants I would just assume that the house would need a major remodel anyway. I would own a lot more rentals if I could count on having continuous occupancy for that long.

That shot reminds me of an old roommate I had back in the day. He wasn't so much a hoarder, but I'm convinced he was the laziest man alive.

He was too lazy to wash any clothes so rather than do that, he would just go buy new ones. I shit you not, he had at least two feet of stomped down clothes mixed with candy bar wrappers in his room, that he would just walk over. He had kind of a path going on. It looked like a bucket full of assholes lived in there. :shake:

The final straw came when I went into his room one day because a lot of drinking glasses were missing. What I found was as vile as it gets! The nasty pile of shit was to lazy to get up and go take a piss in the middle of the night, so he would just piss in the glasses. He also had half a dozen Snapple bottles full of piss. :spock: WHAT KIND OF A DISGUSTING RAT BASTARD DOES STUFF LIKE THAT, SERIOUSLY, WTF!

When Scooter got home that night I had a come to Jesus chat and he was gone the following Saturday. I made him go out and buy me a new set of glasses, before I would give him any of his stuff and leave a $500 pain in the ass fee behind. (PIA fee) It took me a week to get that room right, even with everything gone.

Screw owning rental property. My parents went this rout after the oldman retired.
we had a sec -8 house that after the tenets were booted off the system & evicted. Pops & I went into the house, went down stares to find they had busted out part the concrete floor & had a lil pot growing operation going on in the exposed dirt. 1 of the other houses the idiots burned the kitchen up. I could go on & on.


Good luck with your mess Bump. I feel & know your pain

I worked for a few days clearing out tons of crap from a hoader family's property. They had stuff stacked around starting from the 1930s! There was the main house, a secondary house, and four other buildings, including a garage, and barns. The garage was the worst because in the middle of a massive pile of aluminum cans lay a dead semi-solid cat. Some of the cans had melded with the carcass. Each building was filled with stuff, such as old chairs, sleds, tools, crates, bicycles (one of which was from the 1940s) and I was so happy when someone came and offered them 1100 dollars for everything in the buildings and houses. They had sold some of the crap by holding a yard sale, but that had not put a dent in the accumulated crap they had.

I found one more dead cat in a barn, but it had been there so long that it was practically mummified. I saw a live cat come around another barn and I yelled at it, "Run away! It's not safe for you here!" The state of the secondary house was so bad that the fire department wanted to use it for practice and then burn it down. The mold in the basement, and I mean the entire basement, was not the sole reason to set it ablaze.

Okay, I think I'm done opening this thread now.

My wife thinks she has hoarder tendencies although she doesn't actually hoard. She does DVR all the new episodes of every hoarding show. So she actually is a hoarder of them.

My grandparents lived through the depression and were hoarders. They weren't hoarders of filth though. It was actually pretty clean. But the old man was in the newspaper business so he would keep all the old papers over the years. He had newspapers piled floor to ceiling all over the place. Additionally, he would go to the store and buy soda on sale - more Dr. Pepper than any person could possibly consume. Then it would sit for decades.

When he filled up one house, they just bought another and filled that one as well. Unfortunately, he didn't really hoard much of any kind of value. I'm certain we threw out some valuable newspapers but who wants to spend weeks sorting through millions of newspapers to find the ones that might be worth $50 to a collector?

all I found of value was a small but heavy copper pipe and a 1940's silver coin. Everything else was trash, lol.

My wife doesn't know the true value of junk.

Grandpa was a coin collector and he had plenty of old coins but he needed some money in the 80's and sent about half his collection off... never got a nickel back. Got scammed. Those old proofs would probably be worth $100k today. My dad and uncle still have the other half of the collection stored in safety deposit boxes. I guess I'll get some of it one day and then probably pass it down to my son.

very nice, I expect silver to steadily go up in value over time. I like it because it's an edge against inflation, though many think it's too much of a risk. Not me, give me all the silver I can get!

Gasoline and matches.

Silver and gold actually normally go up in value at the same rate of inflation over time.