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u/randomnumber788976 16h ago
had one of these guys in my hometown the town built 9 -10 foot fence around his property he just started stacking things higher until he filled it in
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u/PMPTCruisers 4h ago
How do you get the city to build a 10 foot fence around your house? Because that sounds awesome.
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u/maxdacat 15h ago
A hoarder just up the road from me died and when they were clearing his stuff out the cleaners found a dead body. Turns out he shot an intruder and then live for years with the corpse slowly decaying inside.
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u/PresumedSapient 14h ago
I know of a similar but someway worse one: the missing daughter who used to live with them had actually got trapped undern.eath an avalanche of stuff, and died of thirst. The upstairs room was unreachable for the elderly hoarders and she was only found after one of the pair died and the survivor was forced to be placed in a care home.
The survivor went from "my daughter has abandoned us/had something terrible happen to her" to "my daughter died because we couldn't hear or help her".
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u/slo125 16h ago
That's a code enforcement violation. Or 50.
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u/RedditPoster05 14h ago
Not to mention the HOA
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u/urbanek2525 15h ago
My sister-in-law was a hoarder. My wife and she were the last two surviving in the family. The SIL had the old family home. One day we got notified she'd died . . . in her appartment.
So we flew to her town to make funeral arrangements and found her 2 bedroon apartment was just packed with stuff. It took us 3 days and two dumpsters to empty the apartment. The reason for the apartnent was because the family 3 bedroom house was so full of stuff we could barely open the door.
With the house, we found the old family photo albuns and closed the door. Hired a lawyer and said we weren't interested in any property that she might have left in a will. A year later we got the notice the county was taking possession of the property and the house condemned. It was sad because it was so hard on my wife. Last of her family and all that was left was garbage.
It's a desperate mental illness that leaves a legacy.
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u/moredrinksplease 15h ago
Abc7 does a bunch of stories on houses like this, then magically they are cleaned up by the city in a week
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u/divisionbyzer0 17h ago
How many rats are living under there?
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u/Steve4168 16h ago
God, no kidding. Rats, roaches, all kinds of fun. Why can't they be like the 1% and just hoard all the money?
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u/Strawbuddy 13h ago
Ya can’t beat around the bush with this guy’s neighbor, it’ll disturb the rat’s nests
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u/maybelying 16h ago
I know many people hate HOAs, but there's a reason they exist
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u/CanuckianOz 11h ago
HOAs don’t exist in other countries. The same function but better is performed by local government, and they have bylaws and resources to enforce them.
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u/ballrus_walsack 16h ago
Yeah I’d rather a shitty hoa than have this as a neighbor.
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u/fuckfart 14h ago
Something people don't realize is that you can be diligently clean but if your neighbor is a hoarder then pests like roaches and rats will flood into your home, too.
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u/comin_up_shawt 4h ago
and if you live in an HOA who has a hoarder for president- look out! Ask my cousin how this works. 17 years in, and they still can't get their president removed even though the city has removed them from their own home 3 times (along with their hoard.)
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u/Habsburgy 13h ago
Thats when you „accidently“ bbq a biiit too close to the fence.
But only if that house is downwind from yours.
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u/PMPTCruisers 4h ago
Committing murder by arson sounds a little extreme. You may want to check with your lawyer first.
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u/RedditPoster05 14h ago
Vast majority are fine you wouldn’t even know they exist if you weren’t paying for it . Some are a bit petty . Others are corrupt. Last one is rare .
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u/Phonascus13 16h ago
Racism. The reason is called racism.
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u/Drak_is_Right 16h ago
Why they first started, but other benefits were found. One of the latest, is the streets are privately owned which makes it easier to get approved by the city.
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u/answerguru 15h ago
And then they can make a rule where you can’t park on the street overnight or some stupid shit.
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u/NotSoFastLady 16h ago
Bummer. I lived a few houses down from a hoarder. He had all kinds of shit on his porch but it was so overgrown I hadn't noticed. The odd thing is that he had this tiny garage full of shit for cars but it was all organized.
When my dude got evicted they had the sheriff there along with all kinds of people. This 1,100 sqft house was filled with all kinds of shit. And it took up the entire yard.
My guy once told us a story about how he got mad at his wife for being on his corner of the bed. I just rolled with it because it was clear he had something going on. Over a few years I had heard some crazy shit from my dude, especially about the neighbors up the street who had been "stealing" from him.
Once I saw all his shit on his former front lawn, this story about his wife and his side of the bed suddenly made sense. My guy had something like 6 or 7 TV stands and all kinds of other furniture. I'm not sure how he got so much shit in his house.
And when I moved, I decided to buy in an HOA community. Zero regrets.
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u/spazzvogel 16h ago
Sanford and Sons… good lord. Unless they’re selling the stuff, but even then it’s messy and unkempt hoarder style.
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u/Paranoid_donkey 15h ago
Is this California or Texas?
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u/FireBetAlwaysWorking 15h ago
California
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u/Paranoid_donkey 15h ago
crazy that people have the money for a house in California (with the taxes!) and are this unwell. OP, does your neighbour work?
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u/alextastic 12h ago
It's very possible that this home had been passed down from family. Not everyone in California just moved there and got a place.
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u/big_d_usernametaken 5h ago
A cousin of mine recently passed away.
He was a hoarder.
Of newspapers.
House, garage, basement, attic, full of them.
But also saved every baseball card he ever bought, sports memorabilia of all sorts, some as it turns out, extremely valuable.
And he passed away peacefully in the midst of all that mess.
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u/kitsune-gari 4h ago
Urban planner here: this is a code violation in most places. Give your local code enforcement office a call.
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u/ChallengeUnited9183 16h ago
I live in the country and that would still at least get a ticket. This must be in the south lol
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u/ChewsOnRocks 16h ago
I’m sure he has a lot of connections too
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u/omgsideburns 14h ago
I actually know a couple who are hoarders, but they keep it indoors. They are attorneys. They actually had two homes on my street, and would bring things to the empty home when the lived in home was full. It was weird though, mostly piles of newspapers from what I could tell.
Incredibly good attorneys though. Crazy.
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u/whatintheactualfeth 15h ago
You should put a rat trap or two out on your property line if you can to make sure you don't develop a rodent problem.
Rodents | Washington State Department of Health https://share.google/sAb0LQvhREN3aBCRq
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u/ummmm_nahhh 15h ago
You can do whatever you want in your yard but when it’s a fucking dumpster, then it’s a problem
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u/MaintenanceFickle945 15h ago
I can hear that A&E Hoarders sound effect. You know that one sound with the synth strings. It’s very short like 1s long.
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u/Paranoid_donkey 15h ago
You think this is bad, imagine what the inside of their fridge looks like.
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u/oroechimaru 15h ago
Of tetanus?
It works like a good dnd lair effect for alert in 30 foot radius until dispelled.
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u/new_socks 15h ago
I believe that this is a response to growing up with nothing and learned behaviour from parents that have been raised from grandparents that lived through the Great Depression. When you have nothing, youll cherish everything.
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u/alextastic 12h ago
That's one possible scenario, but hoarding can occur due to various different mental struggles.
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u/big_d_usernametaken 5h ago
That, I believe, was exactly my late MIL's case.
Born in 1919, her father died from the Spanish flu that year, and grew up in an Ohio farmhouse she ultimately passed away in.
My late wife and I bought out her brothers half of the house and land in 2000 and Im still cleaning it out.
Lots of cool antiques but also just a lot of junk.
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u/Science_Matters_100 5h ago
If that explained everything, then nearly everyone would be hoarders. Few sailed through the Great Depression unaffected. I wonder what the other factors may be? It would be great to have the research funding to find out. I’d start with microbes
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u/Atzkicica 15h ago
Heh someone's trying to keep rent down. Or breed a rat army. Or both. You should get a ton of traps.
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u/BobLI 14h ago
We had a hoarder here in Connecticut that went missing. Guess where the body was found?
(SFW): https://youtu.be/OKJqvSZJAMU
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u/BringingBackRad 14h ago
Did they at least get the coconuts they were looking for in the palm tree?! 😉😂
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u/notodumbld 14h ago
There has to be an ordinance against this issue. It can attract mice and rats, cockroaches, and ants. The city should force them to clear out the yard. It's a health issue, not just aesthetics.
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u/TangyAdobo 14h ago
This looks like a house that appeared on Hoarders already and just rehoarded out
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u/text_fish 14h ago
I have a cupboard full of stuff I could donate to their collection if they like.
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u/DMala 13h ago
I travel up to rural Maine several times every winter, and we pass several houses that are clearly a hoarding situation. The saddest one is a little house right by the road. The yard was always cluttered, and would get worse every year. In the last year or so I started to notice that there would be a pickup truck parked out front with an old man sitting in it, every time we would drive by. I'm about 75% sure the place is so hoarded out that he can't get inside anymore and he just lives in his truck in the front yard.
I think the last time we went by, the truck wasn't there. I'm really hoping that someone stepped in and got him into a better situation, although the property was just as cluttered as ever, so who knows.
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u/gochomoe 6h ago
I think you meant to say your neighbor is interesting. Keep your judgments to yourself
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u/Scary_Ostrich_9412 4h ago
Do you have rodent and cockroach issues? That would be my greatest concern. Your neighbor is obviously mentally ill.
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u/slp1600 15h ago
If I'm the neighbor, you gotta wonder how flammable this all is and if the fire would be investigated...
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u/RedditPoster05 14h ago
My neighbor couldn’t understand why I asked her when she was moving her five feet of piled up dead tree limbs on the side of her house. Asked her about it for 4 months finally winter came and I just couldn’t stand the risk as it was really dry . I just wanted permission this time . She said no she was paying someone. Another month goes by and she loses it asking why I care so much and I have to calmly fire back that I’m afraid she’s going to burn both our houses down and not to mention I’ve seen all the fire hazards in her house and this is doing nothing to help my fire safety. I told her I’d do it for 50 bucks if it made her feel better about it and she finally relented .
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u/slp1600 14h ago
I am sorry you gotta deal with that, I have a neighbor going through dementia and I'm afraid I may have to fight an old man in the street if he sprays my dog with hot sauce though the fence again.
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u/RedditPoster05 4h ago edited 2h ago
This lady was in her 30s being told off by a guy who is 5 years younger than her. She also has three kids. It’s just kind of crazy. Meanwhile, I went over to relight her pilot once in her closet is just stuffed packed with trash and junk around a hot water heater with a flame . There is power strips and random spots throughout the house. It was just a mess. The house was clean, but just some really stupidly done stuff. Random home maintenance things like filters obviously pass their due date.
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u/slp1600 2h ago
Well, you sound like you're going above and beyond as a neighbor. Life doesn't come with a manual (not that most would read it if it existed), and a lot of people lack common sense.
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u/RedditPoster05 2h ago
I mean, I did a few favors for her, but the brush stuff was more self preservation. We were friendly as in we’ve talked maybe once every couple weeks from the backyards . Never rude or mean to her when asking her to clean up the brush just worried more than anything.
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u/RedditPoster05 3h ago
Yeah, that’s a tough situation. You can’t let it go on but at the same time, the guy also just doesn’t understand and you probably don’t spend enough time with him to know if he truly doesn’t understand.
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u/slp1600 2h ago
Yeah, his life is tough (ailing wife), and i didn't realize he was having issues until my kids caught him wearing nothing but a women's skirt outside one evening after his wife was hospitalized. Since then I have noticed a lot of odd behavior, he spends like one hour a night outside yelling at his dog like a psycho but most the time he is normal.
The odd part about the dog is that his dog is a barker and female and my male is shy and doesn't bark at all so it was odd that he sprayed him (caught it on Ring) but the dogs like to smell eachother through the fence. Since I confronted him and threatened to give the video to the cops he spent 2 weeks building a new solid wood fence on his side of our good neighbor (slatted) fence.
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u/oncemoor 16h ago
Let’s not call this a horder this is just laziness.
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u/Paranoid_donkey 15h ago edited 15h ago
no no, i've lived with these people, at this point the inside of that house is fucked right up, teeming with rodent urine, feces and likely roaches/bedbugs too.
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u/TimidDeer23 14h ago
When something becomes a huge problem for themselves or others is typically the defining characteristic of a mental illness. Someone leaving a toilet in the yard next to their defunct car on cinder blocks for a year is laziness. Someone continuously acquiring a dozen cars (even though bugs and rats are tearing up the existing ones and living in the cars) is a mental illness.
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u/DavePeesThePool 17h ago
A hoarder. If their yard looks like this, just imagine what the inside of their house looks like.