On Today’s Hoarders Show, This Woman Claims Her House Is Haunted By Demons…

@Annii It IS officially considered a mental illness now. It's all about loss. Landlords can't always just toss people out into the street anymore. The hoarder is entitled to get help first. It's a serious disability

@fernie2 In Japan they have home inspections on a regular basis to stop that sort of thing from getting so out-of-hand. And they have clean-up companies that will sort through things and clean up, in Japan they have to recycle and sort every type of item & bag and label it for recycling so they send teams in who work very quickly. There is You Tube channel where they record clean-ups and it’s generally apartments with young people living in them that they are cleaning up and most of it is trash and food containers and packages.

@cherokeepatti I live in subsidized housing and we are inspected every September. I dread it so much.

@fernie2 A lady at the last apartment complex I lived in told me that they inspected every 3 months if you got subsidized housing. She said they were very particular, not just hoarding stuff but a small hole in a window screen was not allowed & all windows that opened had to have screens, even the sliding patio doors had to have them. Also no aluminum foil on the burner drip pans and other such rules, kitchen trash cans had to have lids, etc.

@cherokeepatti YIKES! The annual intrusion on my life and privacy doesn't seem all that bad right now!

@fernie2 yeah. I think one of the main things was to check for bugs and mice and for hoarding I guess…but the apartment complexes had a duty to keep their apartments strictly maintained. I lived there over 5 years before I got a window screen for my patio door and only then because bees were coming into my apartment when the door was open….and I had to keep it open to keep it cool when I was at home when they had the a/c turned off for maintenance…they had to clean the tunnels the air flowed through from the central a/c source. I didn’t have subsidized housing so was low on the list to get maintenance for almost everything. Sometimes I had to wait 2 weeks to a month to get something done. They were always so busy with the other apartments.

@cherokeepatti Because I live in subsidized housing I cannot get ANYTHING done. I always tell young people to try not to get old and poor in this country and end up in that dehumanizing situation ...you are treated like crap. Housing Authorities are corrupt little governments/dictatorships.

@fernie2 it’s not the U.S. is it? here the apartment maintenance has to keep every little thing maintained. A hole in any of the window screens the size that a fly or other insect can crawl through will cause a problem if it’s not fixed.

@cherokeepatti I get that there are some awful tenants and the property needs to be checked and maintained. What I hate is that they come into your home whether you like it or not.We are powerless to say "that is not a good day for it...can we reschedule for a different day?"

@fernie2 It is the housing people doing it and they tell people that they will inspect when they sign up for housing assistance. Since they have so many apartments to check they don’t have time for people to tell them to come back another day. I lived in university apartments and had no privacy at all considering how many times per month maintenance would come in to check things…they’d give a couple days notice and let themselves in with the key and sometimes the apartment manager was with them too….they would schedule routine checks for water heaters, light fixture, insect checks, mold in bathroom, testing the smoke alarms twice a year, check the furnace/air conditioner closet, check the plumbing, etc.