I’ve been in the field since 6:30 this morning, checking out possible excessives. Dirty Dave and I checked out the rural home of a pack rat; a suburban heroin den; and a garbage house in the city. I’ll post one … Continue reading
Dirty Dave and I went to check out a rural property. Here’s what we found:
I had to leave the office for a while yesterday to check out a possible excessive trashout and check if an abandoned vehicle was free to be towed away. In the end, the trashout was not excessive, and the vehicle … Continue reading
In the outward sprawling expansion of the Twin Cities, farmsteads like this one are being gobbled up. Instead of growing corn and raising livestock, this land will see clusters of McMansions and strip malls. While it’s still here, though, this … Continue reading
I have lived near two bodies of water in my life. One is this small take, which I photographed yesterday after the snow, in a quintessentially Minnesota scene. The other is this ocean, the essence of the tropics. One certainly … Continue reading
Because I spend half of my time in the office, and because we have several crews fanning across the state every day, I don’t get to check out all the properties we services. I wish I could. Pangs of jealousy … Continue reading
It’s been a wonderful fall: high temperatures, sunny days and a prolonged burst of color in the canopy. Now it’s time to get back to the Minnesota reality. It gets dark early. You have to scrape frost off your windshield … Continue reading
Dirty Dave and I went out to check out a new job that came in this morning. It’s another once-lovely home in a particularly distressed part of North Minneapolis. This particular residence has been thoroughly trashed. Once we ushered out … Continue reading
Dens of vice are always interesting properties to service. At this residence, some enterprising young men had decided to eschew the world of the corporate cog in favor of an entrepreneurial endeavor involving the clandestine sale of narcotics. The authorities … Continue reading
It’s not all trashouts and show cleans. We also perform a wide range of property-preservation services to make sure that our properties are safe. Here, we traveled to an isolated farmhouse in western Minnesota to tarp a hole in the … Continue reading
