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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How DO you deal with the hoarder?  I'm going to have to deal with this situation sometime too.  For now, I kinda hope the person just passes quietly at home, and then I will just have to deal with the mess.

I've tried to clean out the house a few times in the past, with much angst, and no long-term positive effect.  [/quote]

You can try calling the county Health Department in the area where the hoarder lives and find out what it takes to have the house condemned--i.e., what's considered unfit for human habitation.  I am the PP who has been through a clean-up, and I called the health department anonymously without reporting my relative.  More of a "If I were to make a formal report, what would happen?" conversation.  It was very useful--just for myself to know, but also to be able to say, "If you try to move back into the house without a working furnace, I will call the health department and they will condemn the house."

I highly recommend that whenever the time comes you find a hoarding clean up company.  We couldn't have done it without one. The enormity of the task is just not something you can understand until you're in it--both physically and emotionally.[/quote]

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