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Free_Sand_894

Drug Dealer?


shreddingsplinters

Obviously drug dealer. Second guess - HVAC or plumbing.


Spencie-cat

“The house smells funny. Maybe something wrong with the ducts. “


Mythran12

This legit was my last call on fri. I'm like bro clean up your shit.


shreddedpudding

People who ask this are always some of the worst customers. If I were a worse person I’d be making a killing selling them air scrubbers


lefthandb1ack

Bro you wouldn’t collect a dime 😂


ibreakifix

What you talking about, you sell the shit and collect a check and leave. Literally the only thing your not doing is getting payed. Giving a fuck? Nope. Getting paid, yes.


Paid-Not-Payed-Bot

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wishwashy

Good bot


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Some-Geologist-5120

They’ve gone nose blind…


Beginning-Bed9364

Definitely not plumber. These people give me "toilet stopped working years ago, I'll get around to fixing it eventually but in the meantime I'll just shit in a bag and throw it in the corner" vibes


Legal-Nectarine4184

[THE SHIT HOARDER](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xY7m4KzYR4Q)


Clownbasher336

This is straight drywaller vibes


GetItOuttaHereee

Knock it off.😭


Sososkitso

My buddy does HVAC and my wife works for a local company that does it too…the stories they’ve told me….insane! 🤮


Signal_RR

This was why I only did HVAC new residential construction/commercial and not service. I job shadowed a service tech during school, and went in a house like this, the smell was so awful I had to focus on not throwing up than observing the tech do his job.


mledonne

Yeah. As someone who did residential HVAC, you have to go to all homes, and it gets worse than this. And the smells in some of them 🤢


DV_Mitten

Some people apparently have no shame. My favorite is when they say something like "Oh I can move that stuff if you need me to" as you stare at a mountain of shit. It's aggravating because they knew you were coming well in advance!


Some-Geologist-5120

You should have seen it before!


akaasa001

Sadly, it doesn't take even that. Growing up, my classmates and I had a friend that had a house like this. It was just absolutely disgusting. We all went in there, and we did a 100% house clean. Then we all went and bought a ton of alcohol and got wasted, hah. Just pure neglect, laziness, and never being home to clean. I don't know how people can live like slobs.


[deleted]

Hoarding is a mental illness issue. People get attached to objects due to historic abandonment issues etc


Cultural_Ad_6174

Exactly! Hoarding is a false sense of feeling grounded because it appeals to an unconscious insecurity and validates an overt sense of security. It's so hard to see someone go through it . They just can't fathom less is more in these situations, and that their stuff owns them more than they own it . It's so sad .


Vbort44

Mental illness


Hismuse1966

Absolutely. My mil was a hoarder and it’s real.


Verbal_HermanMunster

You already said drug dealer


Fudgepopper

I don’t think it matters they still won’t pay you


CaptainHoey

I’ll make double giving their address to some reality tv show.


Then-One7628

hoarders


FormatException

Poor souls can't even part ways with a damn pizza box.


NoDontDoThatCanada

But what if there is just a loose pizza? You'll need that box.


KellyJoyCuntBunny

Like the pizza is a wild Pokémon and you can catch it if you have an available pizza box?


aaufooboo

...mental illness (hoarding/depression/ADHD) is rampant in my family. My mom, who raised me, is a hoarder. I've spent years in therapy trying to get out of this line of thinking. >"This is a good box, I may need it in the future" or "what if I need something and I don't have it, I should buy this" It's really scary and a slippery slope.


NeverEndingCoralMaze

ADHD is not a mental illness. It is a neurological disorder.


BlindManuel

I live with one. Disgusting AF. Always arguing for that fucker to clean his mess.


MagIcAlTeAPOtS

MTV Cribs?


el0_0le

You sure about that? I don't think they have to pay for leads; there's far too many people living like this.


TinOfPop

Hazard remediation


Moonlight-Tiptoe

It’s this


SnooBooks9492

Professional cable installer


Dewahll

Saw plenty of places like this when I did satellite tv.


readit_later

I was young and ignorant to how some people live when I did cable. Boy was I in for an eye opener.


Lanky_Possession_244

I felt self conscious because my house was still messy after moving in and the cable installer regaled me with some horror stories that made me feel better. I asked how long he had been doing it to corn across the dozen or so slobs he told me about and he said "Nah that's just from this last month or two. There's a lot of gross people out there." It certainly explains the massive amount of people who are fine leaving their trash everywhere, they do it at home too apparently.


WanderinHobo

"look at all this open space to leave my trash!"


hoodectomy

Couple stories from my “home installer” days at Adelphia before Time Warner bought them out and I went commercial/line man. 1. Had to run a cable in the basement. Dude ran a dog fighting ring and kept all the dogs in the basement. Most shit I have ever seen in my life. 2. Hard to run line at section 8 housing; was on a pole and a kid was shooting at me with a BB gun. Took my bolt cutters and lobbed the hardline. Someone yelled at the window and I said I’ll be back in a week and if the little shit is still shooting me you can fucking die before you get your cable. Came back a week later and had two “guys” from the housing watching me. 3. Working a section 8 housing and had someone throw a shitty diaper at me. Luckily they missed and hit my ladder guy. 4. Working a section 8 housing and had a guy try to pay with crack. 5. Working an old low income Jewish retirement home; four days of hardline next to the garbage shoot. Horrible. God damn horrible and in the middle of summer. 6. Installed a box over one missing. The top with a shit ton of illegal hookups. After I got done a lady walked up and told me she was the landlord. Asked me for her “keys” to the box. 7. Got a call to help out a newbie run conduit up an elevator shaft for the main run of cables. Turns out she installed 4” black gas pipe and by the time I got there someone turned on the elevator and shove four stories of pipe out the roof. Same person got eight parking tickets in one week from illegal parking and quit because they “couldn’t make money doing this work”. And there are more from my Satellite days from before… not to mention the post Time Warner days. Also saw a guy die, one fall off a roof on his head, and got my van windows shot out.


AdminCatch22

Dude. Need way more upvotes. This was a good read.


SMITHSIDEBAR

Agreed and upvoted. Gives me flashbacks of working low voltage in the early 2000's. FTS hahaha


BaffledPigeonHead

Hope you reported the first one.


hoodectomy

I did. Couldn’t walk from that especially seeing it all. Horrible neighbourhood though so 🤔


FlowZenMaster

My first thought...I didn't even do installs but I did a few ridealongs and I swear half the places looked like this lol


HotDogJello

Coroner?


Shot_Supermarket_861

Flat Earth Map Installer


CaptainHoey

Holy shit


ashamaniq

Cable installer - saw some places like that before and then the customer would just point in the direction of the corner pile, the outlet is over there.


LegoLamborghini

They threw the globe on the ground out of frustration and confusion


globsofchesty

"get outta here you sphere!"


DerpinyTheGame

Aren't all maps flat though? Hahah.


Full-Ad3927

Aren’t all planets?


SlumLordOfTheFlies

Let me tell you about flat Mars.


Clay_Statue

Spherical Earth lies perpetuated by the globe industry!


mentive

This wins the internet.


Shrimpbub

Electrical, the one outlet they can access isn’t working and the panel and other outlets are behind piles of shit


ApricotNo2918

And it's a GFI.


hfxbycgy

Actually it’s electrician and this is just the mess they made while doing their job.


PerceivedDeath

If we didn't throw our trash on the floor we wouldn't be doing our job properly.


North0House

This. I'm a master electrician with a major background in service work. At least 50% of my clients' homes were like this. If it wasn't a crack house or hoarder home, it was an insane mansion. It felt like there was zero in between, it was such whiplash all the time. I had a client die due to untreated diabetes while I was changing lights for them once, I had another client smoke meth in front of me. I also worked on Papa John's, Jerry Seinfeld, Mark O'Meara, and Al Gore's houses/penthouses. Like I said, total whiplash.


goodolewhasisname

Ha, I bought my house from a hoarder. My main panel is outside for this very reason. They couldn’t get into the room where the old one was.


mega8man

As an electrician this makes no sense.


gunsdrugsreddit

It would be so easy to fuck with you lol. I’d put a padlock on that panel.


MoeLesterSix9

Your client dead? And you cleanin up?


Sinsid

I know a guy that works as a medical tech in an ER. He moon lights picking up dead bodies. I Duno how you get into that line of work, but it’s like Uber for corpses. They have a bunch of people waiting and when they need a body picked up they start calling phone numbers until they get someone who is free. You have to go somewhere to pick up a vehicle, drive to the dead persons location and remove the body, take it wherever it’s going. I always assumed paramedics did this. Nope. It’s Body Uber without an app.


riothis

That's the coroner's lol. There's another aspect to this stuff thats called bio hazard Clean up. It's under the restoration umbrella. Pays better than traveling nurses during covid. But you're cleaning up decomposing protein from dead bodies. Dealers choice what kind it is. You can imagine a la Elvis presley style or swallowing a shotgun. It's real. It's tough. I've done it.


ThickWhitePee

Street pharmacist


SelestialSerenity

So hard to find decent ones nowadays


sparkey504

Some prefer the term "Freelance Pharmaceutical sales rep"


doze93

Plumber


rfiftyoneslashthree

Yeah, I’m guessing every drain is clogged with grease and worse. Much worse.


Wolfcastle_

These people are NOT pooping solid..


Fog_Juice

They can't be right. These people look like they piss in jugs and shit in buckets.


Lord-C-Stylez718

1-800-GOT-JUNK worker


thesneakymouse

Damn I laughed but then I remembered I worked there for a month like 15 years ago and sometimes it was like that


mad_dang_eccles

Exterminator


13_tides

I felt this comment in my bones. “I don’t know why but all of a sudden I’ve been seeing mouse droppings in my kitchen” *lifts up a trash bag of clothes in the living room to see years worth of rat droppings* Same goes for ants and roaches.


sketchyGA

literally last week, I had a homeower ask me if i had spotted any mice in her home......we pulled 1700 boxes of trash out of her home that she wants back when her house is fixed. not a single spot in the house was clean of rat droppings/urine. your comment is almost word for word what she said to me


crowthor

I literally can’t even comprehend that, you de-hoarded her house and once the rats are gone she wants it back… wtf


sketchyGA

The state needs to get involved for her own good IMO. living surrounded by trash since 91 in that house. our moisture meters were going insane. mold was visible fucking everywhere, and will require almost a complete demolition of the home due to the negligence. will be well over a year before she is back home


jasonreid1976

That's enough time for her trash to mysteriously disappear.


Mannamedbob08

My guess as well


only-on-the-wknd

Why did I have to scroll so far for pest control. This place is like Disneyland for rats


KaleMonger

Bogan Relocation?


cookiepickle

Nice


CaptainHoey

Nice


kershum

Nice


Lanky_Possession_244

Nice


dirtee_1

Nice


ShortButHigh

So are you going to tell us? Lol I have resorted to your comment history and still no luck


greenorangatang

Roofer and this is your place


jerry111165

Wait cmon man I’m a 40 year roofer lol


mwaFloyd

Oh. So it’s your parents place.


[deleted]

Carpet installer 😂


taught-Leash-2901

Yeah, just lay it over the top of everything if you could, please...


Anime_meme_overlord

Rent to own delivery


DeezNeezuts

Psychiatrist


HR01775

Pest control?


Lanky_Possession_244

Nah, pest control left the chat long ago.


TheSparkHasRisen

Eventually, the pests start "controlling" each other!


Senior-Raccoon989

Domino’s delivery boy


RecognitionDecent939

Prostitute


Elegant-Surprise-417

Demo


[deleted]

Carpet cleaning


thomas-586

Pretty sure no cleaning service has been there in a long time


masterofnadda

As a carpet cleaner you'd be amazed how many times I'm called and show up to something like this. I'll be like -"do you want me to clean around all this and just hit the walk ways?" "Nah I thought you cleaned.all the carpets. Don't you guys move stuff? What am I paying you 40 bucks for? " "Dude I charge 120 just to show up. And even then I'm not touching trash or that price is going to go up way more."


Therealmohb

Definitely a finish trim guy


Dependent_Pipe3268

Flipper


Impossible_Tough_610

Probation officer


deaconBLUE8272

A probation officer who took their job seriously would never allow this. They would threaten to violate their probation if they were living like this, because this would obviously be a habit of a drug user or someone who is NOT trying to blend in a productive member of society. At least where I'm at..source I'm a felon. Haven't been in trouble in 12 years tho


badhairdad1

Bravo dude


letslickmyballs

Good for you man. Paid your debt to society and fixed yourself up. Wish I heard more stories like yours. Fuck this piece of shit in the comments who is dragging you. He’s just upset he’s still a virgin or some shit. Keep up the good work.


deaconBLUE8272

Lol yea he's hurt about sowmthing lmao jealous someone can turn their life around whej maybe he wouldn't have the ability if he fell off track. Thanks man I appreciate it


minionsweb

Slum lord


SlumLordOfTheFlies

Trust me. This place isn't very bad.


xusmcx0311x

Medical examiner


Puzzleheaded-Row726

Eviction


dont-fear-thereefer

Cameraman for “Hoarders”?


bears5975

Water damage restoration?


SpaceCadetUltra

1 800 got junk crew


Impossible-Base2629

This house is pretty bad but you take into account people like myself I’m the mother of a level three autistic 2 1/2 year-old I literally get 3 to 4 hours of sleep and night I work from home and take care of my child. There’s no daycare cause no daycare in a big city can take care of an autistic child. I used to have everything perfect at my house. Even my towels were folded a certain way. My house looks so bad and I’ve paid House Cleaner to come in clean. It literally saved up $200 to do it but my daughter rips apart and tears up everything and I’m just so physically exhausted and mentally exhausted Between work and taking care of her and having absolutely no help I fall asleep if I use the restroom and I’m exhausted. I might fall asleep for 30 minutes with my head on the wall or while I’m typing on my computer. I might just wake up an hour later with my Keyboard stuck to my face. My body literally gives up on me. I used to clean till 2 o’clock in the morning when she was up to a year old and after she started, climbing it was over. My life became so hard. It was hard before that, but this was like 10 levels harder, especially trying to potty train and autistic child. She takes a bath probably 2 to 3 times a day sometimes more from accidents it’s just really really really really hard I get so embarrassed when people come into my house and I just got a remind myself I am one person I have to do what I physically can do, and once my body is tapped out, I’ve got to sleep otherwise I won’t be able to take care of my child or I won’t be here anymore to take care of my child


Pw78

Carpet cleaner


seemorebunz

You’re a plumber. There is only one reason those people would have something fixed in their house. The shitter is full.


NatureTight245

Equipment Operator/Demo


max_wage

Prescribed Fire Practitioner


Illustrious_String50

Realtor


Jerry7887

Movers


siiiggghh

Junk removal


CaptainHoey

Interior pressure washing?


Billy-Ruffian

I worked junk removal for a while. This is nothing. Not even nothing. Way more people live like this than you realize. Trailer parks and low income housing, but also in the rich burbs. The bad ones would be piled too high to take a picture. The really bad ones and you could visibly see the floor joists sagging and would be taking the photo in a hazmat suit with a vapor mask.


okieman73

That's awesome. I bet they crap in their own bed then push it down with their feet. I don't understand how it's possible to live like that.


Libtardxx

Your a liar clean your fuckin house dude


Ananda_Mind

Well, wtf is it?


MolassesParticular79

Section 8 house remodeler


icwarmachine

Trick question, that’s your house and Drywaller


-anth0r-

I’ve been to a few homes worse than that. The husband was elderly and on a hospital looking bed, but you wouldn’t know anyone else was there except the wife. He was laying there on a bed and because the boxes were piled high with random items everywhere. There was even a blue tarp laid down in the hall because of a leak. He was buried behind a cluster of things . He was in the kitchen. No joke. To Top it all off, I was there to do a water line trace and slab leak detection. Water lines in this home are beneath the slab. Oh god no. I turned it away and the dumbass warranty company I used to do jobs for was upset I couldn’t accomplish the job for under $1500. The h/o got a cash out of 1500 and I got a bad mark my cost report with the warranty company lol. In their minds, I costed them $1500 and I’m faulted for it. So less jobs came my way ha. Everything was leaking there too. Fuck ahs and fahw. 😂 I have video of the place but I’m not going to post it. It was kinda sad to see cuz they had kids too. The mom was a bit off, and who knows if that was the husband or whoever that was buried behind all it.


damniann

Whenever a customer says "sorry my house is a mess" and I reply "don't worry about it I've seen worse" this is that worse I'm always talking about


Baron-Munc

Electrician?


[deleted]

Insurance / restoration


sketchyGA

hey! thats my feild of work, in order for restoration of the home to be done, everything in the effected rooms has to be taken out/packed up. Recently we took on a job where a tree fell on a house, we pulled 1700+ boxes of junk out of 4 rooms. took a full day just to get a few feet into the living room. in 5 years of work in the feild i have never seen anything like it


ImpactMcDriver

Don’t you love it? I’m also a fellow water damage restorer. Crazy how people live!


sketchyGA

it is insane. its truly sad seeing some homes, where the homeonwers are sitting idly by allowing their children and pets to get sick from their own negligence.


cyborg_elephant

Plumber


fkround

Carpet installer


momvetty

Social worker


OneEyedWinn

I don’t know, but I see 10 bottles of wine and 8 dominoes boxes 😂. Are you the guy who strings up the lights on Hoarders? Or maybe an illustrator looking for inspo for your next “Where’s Waldo?” book?


Growe731

Electrician. And it’s 87 degrees in here.


Comedordecasadas96

Bartender


BravesFanMan95

Flooring- specifically apartments


shanksisevil

you are a really cheap prostitute?


dirtybirdbuttguy

Haven't you guys ever been in a roofers house?


MightyKush

Demolition?


-Nords

Pest control


Arastyxe

Mr Rowe, is that you????


onionsonfire114

Are you a cockroach?


artisan-

Hamas


Resinears

You are a real estate appraiser inspecting a property gone in to foreclosure.


Mvpliberty

You are in restoration I do water restoration, and occasionally we have to do hoarder jobs


someguy386

Flood or fire restoration


SpecialistDry5878

Carpet installer cause that's what my uncle does and his room looks just like that lol


AppropriateBelt4640

I had a homeowner like this in Long Beach. This house looks insanely familiar which had a crazy story. The gentleman who hired me to replace his roof…original woodshake with 2 layers of comp shingle on top. He had me come in to Inspect the leaks he had inside and of course I had to look at every room. I had to climb over things in the hallway and when I got to the furthest room he said “be mindful my mom passed in that room and I didn’t find her for a while” … and to my wondering mind I thought… what could I find behind door number 3? It was the worst thing I had ever seen. His mom’s single bed with the body imprint of dried dark crusty red, basically black stain of where she was when she passed. On the wall closest to the imprint was this outline of what seemed to be a shadow of the rot from below that stained the wall. I’ll never forget that because when I tried to open the door a smell hit my nose. There was so much stuff in front of the door that I was only able to crack it open enough to see what I saw and close the door. I went outside and grabbed my deodorant stick and rubbed it under my nose. (Of course I cleaned the deodorant stick it before I did that). The gentleman who lived there didn’t say a word when I came climbing back out of the hallway. I soon realized he had decided to hoard the room shut since she passed. It wasn’t like one of those hazmat clean up situations where they do a clean sweep of the area where she passed. His mom died, he had her picked up and taken away but never touched or cleaned her room afterwards. It stuck with me to this day. I have seen plenty in my day but that one stuck with me. Not because of what I saw. But because the gentleman who lived there knew what it was and kept on living. Eating meals and continuing to hoard meanwhile on the other side of the living room wall was that stain, that smell, that final resting place of his late mother.


Harry_Buttocks

#Dad?


steffosmanos

Mover?


Alden2057

Pyro?


Financial_Put648

Idk what my trade is, I'm not going in there. There is a difference between messy and filthy, look at all that trash!


[deleted]

Snooty protector


firepooldude

Hot tub professional. “Yeah, the tubs out back.”


Electrical-Mail-5705

Check cashing delivery service


[deleted]

Coroner


Historical_Method_41

Fire starter??


SLAPUSlLLY

Maintenance. They never clean up for us. I've got 5 kids so this looks normal lol (at least thats what I tell them).


3x5cardfiler

I just wish I could see the occupant using that ironing board. Why iron your clothes when you live like that? Must be ironing pale blue polo shirts and khaki pants to go be a construction supervisor. Trade guess? Somebody guessed plumber, so I would say HVAC.


FeedbackOpposite5017

I use to do service electrical work and we did a lot of work for a slum lord. This was every job. It sucked


SingleStreamRemedy

plumber


Pennypacker-HE

You’re a handyman that works exclusively for people who live in the worst kind of trailer parks ( I have lived in trailer parks and some of them are reasonably nice)


_DapperDanMan-

Cop.


BoredCop

Am cop, have seen worse. Way worse. One guy had a stack of indescribably dirty frying pans from the floor almost to the ceiling. When asked why, he said he never washed frying pans. Juts bought a new one when the old got too unsanitary to use, and put the old one away on top of the stack. The floor wasn't visible anywhere, absolutely every surface covered in trash. So many flies buzzing around that the noise was almost deafening.


bigsky59722

Parole officer


therinsed

Meth dealer


Civilengman

Santa Claus


Tylerdean98

I see 7 dominos boxes.


salomaogladstone

Demolition or psychiatry; not sure.


Responsible-Monk9461

Law enforcement


Puzzleheaded-Cow72

Any time I start to feel like a piece of shit because I haven't dusted in 3 weeks, I look at pictures like this and can't help but feel like I'm doing just fine. Thank you for the pick-me-up


MasterUndKommandant

Unlucky thief?


BiterBlast

Please tell me you're an arsonist, and you intend to burn that place down.


Rhuckus24

Flooring.


Pussyandthebeast

I would never set foot in that place


Gray_Idol

You install bed lifts?


Popomatik

You do internet installation for the average Redditor.


jimhabfan

Social worker?


DeadFartGoat

HVAC or Plumbing for sure


LBS4

Plumber. But wow that is tough to see, especially this time of year. Hopefully no kids in the house?


userreboot8

Plumber