Hoarders

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Originally Posted by Munson

Sue the shit out of them for clean up costs and potential lost rent.

not possible with this states laws. Tenants can practically own the house they rent if they are elderly.

[CoMoChief]

My mom was seeing this one guy....and his entire family are hoarders.

He didn't want to put his mother (who's very elderly and broken down) into assisted living, and he couldn't take care of her himself because he always worked, so he had her move into his home and his sister moved into the basement and was going to take care of the mother.

Well my mother didn't want to get very deep into this relationship (and didn't) because she didn't want to possibly marry this guy and move into a house with his sister and mother and rightfully so, that'd be a giant pain in the ass not to mention they're both hoarders and slobs. They have this knitting hobby and they would just buy more and more knitting and quilting shit and would just leave it around the house, then had to store it all in the garage because there was just no more room. In the basement where the sister lives/sleeps (also keep in mind this woman is single and in her mid 50's), there's a small spot on her bed where there isn't any clothes,junk, quilting shit where she can curl up and sleep.

The sister, also has a knack for finding random garage sales around the metro and then just leaves shit around the thouse and never uses them. Just wastes money and makes giant messes around this guy's house. It got so bad that you couldn't even walk down the hallways or even park a car in the garage. Just ****in ridiculous if you ask me. The mother doesn't nothing but sit in her rocking recliner and bark orders, and shit/piss, snore, and shit more. Her bowls/plates of food are just everywhere in the living room to the point there are little fruit flies flying around and it smells.

Not to mention just random piles of junk laying around the house, some piles waist high blocking doorways, hallways, shit on the stairs (one case you have to skip a step on the staircase) because there's so much shit piled up.

I dont know how people can live like that. Just complete worthless pieces of shit.

[Frazod]

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.

[LiveSteam]

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

[Lonewolf Ed]

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.

[mlyonsd]

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?

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Originally Posted by Phobia

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.

Originally Posted by Butternuts

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

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.

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Originally Posted by Phobia

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!

[Jewish Rabbi]

Originally Posted by Butternuts

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!

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

[MOhillbilly]

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

[notorious]

Gasoline and matches.