Cleanup crews often can tell why eviction happened

http://www.ohio.com/news/14478017.html

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The frontline workers who handle foreclosure evictions, including cleanup crews and sheriff's deputies, are used to odd — in addition to gross, sad, funny and frightening — discoveries in homes caught up in Ohio's foreclosure crisis.

As the state's foreclosure problem festers, the eviction business is booming. The Summit County Sheriff's Office handled 227 foreclosure evictions last year alone, a 136 percent increase since 2003. And every time deputies are there to make sure a property is vacated, so are the cleanup crews, hired by banks and mortgage holders to fix up and secure the property so it's in decent condition to re-sell.

Craddock founded Loyal Oak Property Services, one of many companies that do cleanups, in the mid-1990s and has seen business income grow 3,700 percent from that first year. She declined to cite specific financial figures.

fascinating, if sad, read.

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There was the man who was too lazy to get off the couch to use the bathroom. He used buckets and balloons to relieve himself, leaving them on the living room floor.

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The cleanup crews, whose job is to haul out trash and abandoned possessions, can tell why the foreclosure eviction happened just by what's left behind.

In the case of divorce, they find wedding albums, photos of happier times and, sometimes, nasty messages scrawled on the walls. If the case involved an illness, medical equipment such as casts, walkers and wheelchairs are found.

For whatever reason, they also find a lot of abandoned bowling balls.
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I betcha most people here can relate to at least one of the stories

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