My good friend and I are not nosy people but the first glance into her dwelling after knocking at her gate confirmed our fears.
I live in a quiet town where every resident minds their own business. The most conversation I have heard with my immediate neighbors is entirely a brief greeting across the parking lot. These days, you can see one or two neighbors jogging or brisk walking and that’s it. Now, back to our house, my associate and I rarely leave the house, and this habit has led me to know every corner of the dwelling and what’s in it, however even our basement is sparkling scrub and neatly arranged, yesterday, a mouse ran past me while I was taking a leak and scared me. I finished up, and then I looked at its escape route and informed almost everyone else. A close inspection led us to a trash pile up from one of the neighbors. My good friend and I are not nosy people but the first glance into her dwelling after knocking at her gate confirmed our fears. Having had a small talk and taken the afternoons that followed to monitor him, my associate and I realized my associate and I were dealing with a hoarder. Now I started connecting the dots when the HVAC repairman mentioned she has not been to the next door a while to perform HVAC repair yet the heater already failed. My good friend and I experience legitimately freezing winters and I wonder how she copes with no functioning heater, boiler repair, or heat pump. In fact, I doubted if any heat or AC product was functioning at this point since she would not let any heater repair take place, even with a court order to let in a licensed heating dealership… But since the law always wins all of this, the council got an eviction order that made the friend change her mind and let cleaning, repairs and heater/heater replacement take place by a designated heating business, however with time; the renter was expected to conform to having hybrid heating or hydronic heating in place to match up with regulatory requirements.