The view from the front door.
The countertop was strewn with risperidone, an anti-psychotic medication. Unsigned credit cards waited on a windowsill for someone to test the limits of their strained credit.
These pieces didn't make the cut.
I know what style of clothes they wear, and that they owned Thelma and Louise, Independence Day, and Braveheart.
A forgotten chair in the basement.
A room in the basement contained tax information for 2000-2008. The latter three years of that range were particularly successful: he was making over $98,000 as a franchisee of a fast-food restaurant; she was making $41,155 as its manager. The documents included itemized expenses, social security numbers, and bank account information.
Was this were business was done?
I know where they bought their electronics (a big-box store on a fringe exurb), and that they had rental properties in Minnesota and California. I know they paid $269,400 for their house, with $35,000 down. I know which casino they frequented. I know they then tried to open a remodeling business. Timing was poor, however, as the market crashed soon after they got started. That, in part, is why I was there.
Ignorance is bliss.
Found in the barn.
A family member was a veteran. I’m not sure who, exactly, as I don’t open mail when I’m on site. I only gather information from what I can see without disturbing the artifacts.
On the west side of the barn.
On the east side of the barn.
As for the rest, I can only speculate.
In the barn.
This job is done.
This house looks pretty good yet. Soo…. You must find thing of some value yet, ie. tools ec. Can you guys keep any of it? Or is that forbidden? I could see tht being a problem if I collected too much… Junk! In the last few years in my home on a lake up here in NW Wisconsin I have been getting rid of things not used but kept too long. I never miss any of it.
As tempting as it may be at time, we do not keep anything we find in the homes we service. Generally we only find junk and garbage, but if there is something that might be useful to another family, we’ll donate it to a local non-profit group. At any rate, you’re right: if I started collecting stuff from these houses, pretty soon my place would be in need of a serious trashout.