Our weekend was spent mostly cleaning & working. We desperately needed to clean since it has been a little while & I can not stand the clutter & dust any more. I even moved an old dresser into the kitchen as temporary additional storage. We desperately need more drawers because we only have one drawer for all our cooking utensils which was overflowing. You often have to shake it to get it open or closed. But now I have space for all the utensils, the kitchen towels & even a place for our napkins & place mats. Hopefully soon I will be able to find a bakers rack or some kind of hutch that a) I like, b) is not an enormous piece of furniture and c) don't have to pay out the nose for.
The other part of the weekend was spent working on Ben's new business. He & his father have been discussing for some time now about going into property investment & management. And finally on Friday they decided to go for it and put an offer on a house. The house is a 3 bed 1 bath in desperate shape. We looked at it on Saturday & I wanted to cry when we were done. The outside doesn't look too bad. The yard is dead & littered with trash. But the inside was horrendous. I still can not believe that people live like this. The entire house was stained & filthy. Paint was splattered all over the living room (even on the TV). There were so many flies in the house that there was fly tape hanging in the dining room. In the kitchen, there were gnats all over, eggs sitting on the counter & about 1/2 the cabinet doors were missing. And the back door does not have a door knob, only a deadbolt.
There were 4 kids left home alone. All probably under the age of 9. The front door was unlocked. And no one told them we were coming over to look at the house. But they were not worried or scared there were strangers walking through the house.
And the worst part was there was a bright, shiny new truck in the driveway. These people were taking better care of a car then a house where children lived.
I felt amazingly blessed for the environment I grew up in & live in. And sad that there are children being raised in that environment. I can not fully explain the disgusting state this house was in.
But, we find out in about 2 weeks if the bank accepted the offer. If so, I will post some pictures so you can see what it looks like.
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That is really sad. Bugs in the house! EEW! I bet there are roaches too.
I hope their new business is a success.
I could cry. I once had a walk-through on a similar house. We couldn't find any residents present, but the TV was on full-blast and the patio doors were wide open. There was a full training potty in the hallway. A child's bed had been set up above the washer and dryer in the laundry room. There were bunk beds in the street-facing bedroom, the one with the dangerously broken picture window. We turned around without looking further, and our realtor made an angry/frustrated phone call to the owners...
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