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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's pretty clear what the probable situation is. This is a hoarder's house. Look at the basement and bonus rooms. That's what hoarders are like. The cars in the garage will be packed with junk and scrap, and the garage itself overflowing with more junk. That's why there's no listing photos of the garage or the cars.

I'm guessing that one of the heirs (the son?) moved in after Dad died or even to take care of dad, and family let him stay in the house and he  turned it into a hoarder's nightmare. The kid's photo in the bedroom is dated, it reminds me of a school photo from 1995. I'm sure there were no kids or pets living in the house, you're just seeing something left from a long time ago.

Am guessing the family finally got the sibling out and don't want to deal with the house so it's listed as it is. [/quote]

It's not quite bad enough to be a hoarder. Maybe a hoarder in the making. MIL was a hoarder. When she passed every room was like the basement. Even the crawlspace was packed. The garage was packed solid around the car. It took a month to clear it out. Still sold for $1.1 million in the mid 2010s in Chevy Chase. Most went to a reverse mortgage which is why we bothered with a cleanout.[/quote]

There are different levels of hoarding but this is definitely, unquestionably, a hoarder's house. Someone a bit more restrained than your MIL but still has hoarding instincts. No one but a hoarder has that kind of piles of junk in basements that you practically have to swim through. [/quote]

Or just someone lazy who moved everything down into the basement and didn't want to deal with it. The upstairs is just untidy, no evidence of hoarding.

Trust me, hoarders fill every room and then work on expanding to storage units and second houses. [/quote]

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