We had a guy like this in my neighborhood for about 15 years. He was a meth head and used to love grinding on metal in his backyard at 3:00 a.m. After fighting with the city and the police department for years, the dude finally solved everybody's problem by overdosing in his own bathtub.
@@enturnetrol7869 you can't be a huge douche canoe and expect everybody to just mind their own business. That's not how life works, it's certainly not how it worked in this situation.
Lol, the HOA development behind me always sends me violations for my grass being taller than they allow. (3") I'm like this is why I'm not in your development lol
Why the hell would you buy in an HOA community? Do you like neighbors 5 feet away, living so close you can hear a neighbor snore? Absolute insanity, I paid less for 65 acres and I never see anybody, nobody to complain. I guess some people don't like privacy.
@@davidfaustino4476 or maybe get help and support, then be able to live in harmony with the rest of their community? By the grace of god, go anyone of us or ours 🌺🌼✌️
absolutely not. most of the time its called laziness. dont make excuses for disgusting people. they chose that lifestyle and to be nasty. not give a fuck about the enivronment
It's outrageous the city let that go on for so long. They are quick to sell your house if you don't pay your taxes but they let the neighborhood be endangered by this guy?
Yes it does. Like if Fred Sanford had crappier stuff. ☹ ~ Some of those items might've been good salvage, but, left sitting there, they're just becoming trash.
I’m sure they inherited that money from the father or someone else left them a large amount of money they clearly don’t seem to be running any sort of business.
How is this even possible? If he were in Maryland or Virginia and authorities were called to a house like this one, they'd give him 30 days to clean it up and if he didn't they'd condemn his house and property and physically escort him off before locking it down so he couldn't get back in. The state doesn't play here.
Hoarding is a mental disorder. Some people slip into a depression after losing someone that they fill that void with junk, or when they were young their parents didn't allow them to have certain things that now they are able to buy what ever they want and they are afraid of letting things go. I caught myself slipping into that after my grandma passed away. I didn't want any of her things to go to the trash so I kept it all until one day i had to down size my home and had to let things go. It was very difficult but I am thankful that I was finally able to.
@@DGP311 None, usually you dont support a buisness who wrecks your home values and quality of life, But I do believe he has the right to operate a buisness, there was nothing wrong with the piece of land away from the city..The news reporter was a douchebag
@@pricklypear7516 do you even understand how much money those cargo trailers are worth? They have more value in that junk pile then anything you own....
My son parked his car and left on vacation for 7 days. On the 4th day Code Enforcement knocked on our door and told us the car had to be moved every 72 hours or it would be towed. I don’t think a house like that could ever have a chance to get started in my city 😂
Exactly. In Michigan, zoning can go to court and get a compliance order. The property owner has only so many days to fix the problem or the county goes in and does it and they assess the bill on the tax roll.
Alternatively, our neighbor mowed and edged several times a week (gas engines), pulled out his gas blower DAILY to blow his driveway and the street (very often the ENTIRE cul-de-sac) and blow dry all his posh cars (3 of them which he washed weekly). The noise was unbelievable. It was a lovely quiet street until he came. We sold and moved to a country property. So quiet. People around here mow once a month with lawn tractors. The only sounds are horses neighing, crickets, tree frogs, birds singing and roosters crowing.
@@obelus5985 dude your bad neighbor was just a regular guy lol just cause he had pride for his lawn and cars doesn’t make him a bad neighbor in fact he sounds great keeping his lawn looking good and the culdesac, clear class act guy, people like you just need to move out to the country like you said
I sold my house last year and dropped my home value 10k just to sell all because i had a deadbeat neighbor. My neighbor thought cars, trailers, and boats belonged in the front yard in a subdivision. He thought a chicken coop and a garden in his front yard were also ok. Then he thought pouring gravel all over his grass was a way to get him out of mowing his lawn. The grass just grew through it in patches. Lets not forget about his dandelion farm he had and did nothing about making my lawn reno impossible. After mowing his yard when it was 2-3ft tall on several occasions i went to the county. This proved to be a waste of time because there is no ordinance on how tall ones grass can get. Also they did make a drive to his property where they issued a warning on his vehicles and trailers. Come to find out as long as they sat on a bed of gravel and had a hideous blue tarp put over them then they were ok so thats exactly what he did. Made an eyesore even worse by adding tarps that withered away in the sun. I got the subdivision board to site him for the chicken coop but overall it was a nightmare that cost me thousands and countless hours of extra headaches.
@@KFrost-fx7dt sounds like your the nightmare neighbor that does this to other people. My house was NOT overpriced and my realtor set it because thats what the comps were. Its called having some respect and dignity towards other people and clearly you have none. Classless.
@@07slowbalt I'll bet you're the kind to move into a new neighborhood next to farm land or a racetrack and try to sue because of dust and noise. I keep a tidy property but don' expect anyone else to. It' their responsibility not mine. We all have to live on this Earth together.
I have a relative who is a hoarder (although no where near this extreme) very intelligent, but thinks he always correct, has lost his social skills, is OCD, you can't get him to throw crap away. He collects cans, but never takes them to the recycle...etc. He is concerned that he might need it sometime... it is an illness that effects his life and his family. I has a really dark side. I am glad that in this case the city is finally helping the neighbors get the mess gone, it must have been awful living there.
I think a lot of it is free and that’s a reward for him. He probably says it was a good deal and could use it in the future. I’ve worked for people like that. They never notice when you throw away stuff that’s been stored for 10 years.
On your next paycheck take a look at what you made and what you actually take home. Somewhere in that missing bit is a slice that ends up in his pocket.
Exactly! My now deceased neighbor complained about our one family owned 72 Chevelle parked in our driveway which we sometimes drove so we have it in the garage. Assholes need to mind their own damned business.
I had a neighbor like that about 30 years ago. The neighbor was not only had tons of junk around his house but didn’t believe in paying taxes either. That made it easier for the city to take ownership and condemn it. What a mess!
Absolutely. All I see is a major crisis that is sad for everyone involved. People don't just choose to live in squalor, there's a war being waged inside them.
No, they only do that for a short time, I see them clear them out all the time. however, i do agree it can really piss you off when they say I can't have unregistered cars on the property yet they have unregistered motorhomes parked all along some streets with people living in them.
@@murraymadness4674 i live in SoCal. Homeless camps are out of control. The Mayor and board members WILL NOT do anything about it. If they ever do try to move them the "homeless advocates"$$$. File lawsuits. There's hope though. Just the other day the LA county sherriff stepped up and daid enough. Will be cleaning up before 4th of July.
@@martuuk8964 yeah I dont care or see how their problems should become my problems because they have their heads up their asses and refuse to change. That that kind of victimhood shit that's ruining this country. They should have beaten him within an inch of his life and told him they would be back in a month and do it again if shit didnt get cleaned up.
@@unoriginalasshole2142 You might as well kill them then. Good to know you live up to your name. A lot of hoarders have no idea they're sick and the ones that do realize it either don't get help or they can't be helped. It's very rare hoarders ever live happily ever after with help. It's along the lines of narcissism in that it's nearly impossible to control because they don't/won't seek help themselves and they get stuck in their ways.
@@beverlymccollum8861 While he may be rebellious, that's also typically a trait of his disorder. Do you really think any sane person would live like that?
@@romak4756 so they picked up railroad cars and the side of the street???? 100 cars just drove them off the side of the street????? no way these two had money... lots of money.... and how do they buy the properties????
@@HR-rt9nh finance property like most of america does, they moved do much they never owned anything. And have you been on the internet? I can get most anything off facebook for free or next to free, everything they had was GARBAGE.
In Andrews, Texas. When you call to report this type of trashy neighbor , their response is " we cannot dictate ugly". Good ol boy town never cease to amaze me . Lol
Exactly. My brother in law often says we never really own our property. We will always pay property taxes on it. And be forced to conform to certain standards.
You sound like a new crazee!! You live among people!! People want to live in nice neighborhoods and spend good money to do so!! If you or anyone else wants to live like a vagabond then go find and empty lot and live with the rats, snakes , and pigs there!!
So... I completely agree that a neighbor like this is a nightmare. But so are HOA's. Spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on a house, decades of your life in debt, and having some menopausal screaming Karen type telling you that you painted YOUR house a color SHE doesn't approve of is ludicrous on it's face.
Yeah, I have a husband and 3 sons. I wouldn't get in their vehicles. Men's apartments, sheets and underwear are gross as well. You couldn't pay me enough to clean a bachelor pad. Dudes are nasty.
@@jimmartin7881 I married a single dad raising 3 boys in a bachelor pad. WE didn't live in a bachelor pad. They grew up to live like dad did before I cleaned up their act. They don't have anyone throwing their crap out anymore or waiting for them to clean up before they eat. You can put lipstick on a pig and make them pretty for awhile, but they always return to the mud pit.
If I threw a gum wrapper out the car window, the sheriff would run me in to the station where I would charged, convicted, fined and incarcerated before the gum wrapper hits the ground. But this degenerate and his mother defy the law for 25 years and never spend a minute in jail. Incredible.
They‘ll just do the next property the same! If their taxes are paid aren’t they within their rights? I wouldn’t want them in my neighborhood but it’s their property! 🤷🏻♂️
Private property rights are not absolute and do not allow detrimental effects to the health, safety and living conditions to those beyond their property line. If the problem were strictly visual there could be room for debate.
This was his treasure, but yeah sure, most of those cars will go to people who will end saying," I'm going to fix that up one day, just have too many other things"
My mom is suffering from this. Her beautiful home an heated garage is filled to the top with clothes, furniture, sewing fabric, pot and pans, dolls, blankets and papers and she gets mad at me cuz my trash can is not moved right away after the trash truck empties it🤨😤
And you can't leave them alone . What good is private property ? the state does not know what is best for us . How many people have been killed or injured by them ?
When one’s freedom stops is at the property line. If your freedom invites rats, mice, and snakes into a neighborhood then his property infringes on my freedom to live safely the city/county has a responsibility to protect everyone.
I was a firefighter for 30 years and we once had a fire at a home very similar to this property…..because of all the junk and debris the fire load was astronomical. What should have been a thirty minute extinguishment took hours and thousands of gallons of water to finally put it out completely. The address is now a dirt lot
A neighborhood three houses down from me did this. His wife moved out cause she couldn't stand his hoarding, the house was full, the backyard had junk cars. Not sure how he got them back there since the gate was a standard single width for a wooden privacy fence. However, he slept in his pickup in the driveway due to no room in the house. One about 10 years ago a neighbor who lived across the street from the hoarder was leaving in the morning for work and heard a noise across the street so he went to check it out. So sad, the little old man had had a stroke sometime in the wee hours of the morning in his front yard and layed there most of the night until my neighbor found him and called 911. He had to stay in the hospital for sometime, then he went to live with his daughter. The city came in after that and cleaned up the property. They trapped 85 cats on the property. Crazy stuff.
50 or 60 years ago, the neighborhood would have banned together and took care of those people. Maybe a little more community solidarity would have resolved this at the start.
Once again government coming it telling people what they can and cant do on their own property, now claiming they can demolish it because theyve deemed themselves in the right to do it. Smdh
if you owned a house next door and cant sell it you would be concerned? If there were rats and flies, etc in your yard from his house making your yard useless, you'd be okay with that?
That house was in a ghetto idk why the neighbors care. I like how they had 8 acres of land in the middle of nowhere to have their salvage yard but we're tracked down and harassed and forced to move into a neighborhood again. I'm guessing he makes his money off the scrap and the nice old cars so idk why they can't just leave the dude alone.
@@8andsk835We're not talking about clothes or cars. Very easy to say when you're not the one living it. I'm sure you'd be happy with your house being worthless.
@@Dm-dk9zp we choose out neighbors and no I wouldn’t be pumped about it. Obviously the people have a mental illness. Your the type of person that belongs in a track home with an HOA to make sure your neighbors comply so u can be happy.
I'm thinking if the Mayor of that town ever sees an episode of American Pickers his family would have to call an ambulance to rush him in for emergency hyper-tension treatment.
That's a hard pass from me!!! Who in their right mind would want any of that trash. I didn't see one thing that didn't look like it had any value. The nicest thing I seen was the city garbage can at the end of the driveway that looked like it has never been used
@@kennypowers3654 literally any of those cars are worth a pretty penny also theres always bound to be treasure in a pile of trash that big otherwise junk yards wouldnt let you go into them and pick shit from them or literal pick n pull lots wouldnt exist