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What to Do When Your Tenant is a Hoarder!

“Terry” was my first hoarder client. About 50 years old, he worked as a custodian at a high school in a small town not far from where I was living at the time.

He was a genuinely nice guy and proud of his collection of washing machines from the 1940s onward.  

Now, “collectibles” to some people are pure junk to others. To Terry’s neighbors, his front and backyard, as well as the inside of his rented home had become a dangerous junkyard, complete with rats and other vermin that freely roamed the property.

The place was overflowing with, not just washing machines, but broken-down cars, airplane parts, Today he would be called a .

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