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The person that lived in this house obviously had a mental issue. I’ve been following another YouTuber from Canada (Curiosity Incorporated) who bought and renovated a hoarder house. It’s unimaginable that someone could live like that.
On the other hand, I’m very curious about the selling price on all that stuff. I looked through their website, and I didn’t see anything. Do you have any idea?
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What impressed me about the Curiosity Incorp. hoarder house series was how fast the guy worked to get the house emptied, cleaned and flipped. He really has tenacity. He was also fortunate that the prior owner was someone who had some valuable enough art pieces to make it all worth it.
My neighbor is a hoarder. I’m pretty confident his hoard is of no value. He likes to bring home live snakes, keep spiders, taxidermy beavers without any knowledge on how to do it, etc. That house will be the place of nightmares to whoever ends up having to clean it out one day.-
Julie B – I hear you. I mean, I had watched a few videos from close to the beginning of them, and, all of a sudden, he had over 10 videos posted. Every time I watched one, he had uploaded two or more. I had to start watching while I was doing other things just so that I could somewhat keep up!
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Yea. I thought the auctioneer was the Sheriff. This is enough to make never want to step into another thrift store. I think after watching (part of) this, I’m done. I got anxiety as soon as I saw what was in that basement. I can’t see the whole video. I think my thrifting days are done. omg
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I heard about this particular sale. Here’s a link to the outcome on Reddit. Apparently the buyers made out quite well, but it was a lot of work to clear it out.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Flipping/comments/by7md9/update_on_garfield_hoarder_house/A part of me has been wanting to purchase a hoarders house like this for the thrill, but then I have to realize the huge undertaking it would take to sort, transport, clean and store all of that stuff.
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Doublythumbs – thank you for posting a follow up link. I did a little research online yesterday to try to find out what ultimately happened but couldn’t find anything.
I’ve watched enough Hoarders marathons to scare me away from ever buying a hoarder house. The last marathon I watched was while I cleaned out my closet and dresser. I ended up getting rid of 75% of my clothes and it was so freeing! Those shows are great motivator for me when I have to clean or organize anything.
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Julie, I hear ya. I’m about to do the same thing with my closet. I will binge watch Hoarders and follow that up with Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners. I cannot watch some of the Hoarders videos in their entirety because I start to hyperventilate just seeing all that “stuff”! And as I write this, I am in the midst of cleaning out a room because I just can’t deal with too much “stuff”. So while I am at my computer, my friend calls me (she is an extreme clean/neat freak-to a fault). I tell her she “buys things-just to throw them away!”. She is bringing me a Michael Kors purse she paid $150. for at Marshall’s. She said I can have it because “it just didn’t work out for me”. Yea. I’ll be posting THAT on ebay as soon as I get it next week! She is giving it to me know that I’ll be selling it. She throws out brand. new. things. all. the. time! jeesh. Must be nice.
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I’ve actually been to a hoarder house auction, and please trust me: you do NOT want to go to one of these. The part that Hoarders or American Pickers can’t show you is the smell of these places. 30+ years of mildew, mold, rot, and rodent droppings. The smell hangs like a cloud around the property. The sale I went to was a house with several outbuildings on 5 acres and every part of it smelled like rot. That smell stuck with me for days.
At one point, I was wandering through a maze of junk on the property and thought “I am surprised I haven’t passed by a dead something or other by now”, turned my head, and was face to face with a dead, desiccated possum.
The whole event was overwhelming emotionally. You’re standing smack-dab in the middle of someone else’s mental illness and trying to place a monetary value on it. I don’t know how to do that without feeling really unsettled.
I used to watch Hoarders and Pickers with utter fascination and amazement over how people could live like that, and think “Man, I’d love to look around in all that junk!” Now that I’ve done it? No way. Never again. EVER.
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Worst one I’ve seen (on TV) was a lady who lived in a 300-year-old house in the centre of Bridport, Dorset. The kind of house the Mayor of Casterbridge would have lived in. Mummified horse in a closet. A variety of cat and dog corpses scattered through the house. This in the centre of a busy market town in the 1990s.
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