Tax Foreclosure. I talked to him a few times and he said he was planning on moving out as soon as there was a new owner. He requested a month to move out and clean up a little bit for me. Seriously though he was a nice guy and his truck was super clean.Exactly. Just because you have a pile of turds doesn't mean it needs to look like shit. Square those turds away. Make them look presentable. Make them look like a log cabin of lincoln logs or a jenga tower.
I think it's an effect of the hoarder mental disorder that when they're evicted from their home they take a bunch of trash with them and leave their swanky furniture and just about anything else of value behind. I had an "evicted hoarder" gig when I worked at a removals company a few years back, and that's what appeared to be going on then.It's 'starter trash', like a good bread, you need to keep some of the original yeast when start a new batch.
What I never understood was why so many people that were ditching an apartment felt the need to completely trash the place, first. Maybe they were in the midst of eviction proceedings and were pissed off? Anyway holy shit would some of those units be downright fucked by the time we were sent in to clear it out. I mean they'd literally shit in the sinks and whatnot, unplug the fridge and leave the doors open so it would fester...man did I earn my pay on those days.
Funny you mention the clean truck part. I own rentals and have had a couple cases where the people were hoarders or just total slobs in general, but you'd never in a million years guess it by seeing them or their vehicles. None sees what's inside the house, everyone sees what's inside the car. It's often the case that hoarders do care about how other people see them, so they clean everything that other people can see, while they don't clean anything that can't be seen.
I had a housemate whose room was nearly this foul. When she moved out she thought she could clean it all up for the new housemate in a single night. At around 3am she gave up. The new housemate moved into some nasty shit. They got her deposit money but frankly I don't think it was worth it. They said they found things in there that we were all probably happier not knowing was in the house.
Correct. In layman's terms, an investor will come in and essentially buy the tax lien from the city/county/whatever. Depending on local laws, they then charge a fee of varying amounts (20% is common, as you said) and allow you a certain time period to pay them back for the money they put up plus their fee.The truck was probably new. That stuff doesn't happen instantly. The guy had kitchen ware. He thought he would be normal. But then one day you tell yourself you'll just leave the pizza box on the floor and throw it away tomorrow. Then next thing you know.
Good advice. I bought a house that smelled like cat piss. I pulled up the living room carpet, and there was, on average, one piss stain every 4 inches all over the subfloor. I put oil based Kilz on every surface of flooring. Pulled the baseboards off, kilzed the walls behind there. Kilz on the basement concrete floor, because that stank too.i swear to god cigarette never goes away. my grandparents (not hoarders, nana keeps a very very clean house) each smoke a pack a day, inside the house, and have for the last 45 years. i dread having to do something with that house when they move out. she didn't like her new iron so she gave it to me, about a month ago, and i had to throw it out because the IRON stunk like cigarettes so badly.
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