We had a house down the road a few years ago and the threw everything out in a big dumpster. So me and my Wife went dumpster diving just to see what we could find, she found a few boxes of dish towels and regular towels. When she lifted the towels out of the boxes money come falling out of them! It was a lot of old silver dollar’s and some regular ones, I couldn’t believe it!
Cleaned out after some hoarder meth heads were evicted. Found a box of football cards and a cool train set lol. It wasn't cool enough to offset the literal piles of needles that were in the "drug den" portion of the house. Thankfully they were all within a few feet of the bathroom
Guys don't think of those things, women are just inheretly more common sense then men. He does not even see the windows.!!!! Plus, open the windows and put some box fans in the windows sucking the old air out of the house.!!!!!!
I like that you were going through the purses and books. Also be on the look out for old quilts. Even if they are torn or stained they can still be worth money. Also look for Pyrex dishes , vintage Fiesta, and other stone ware.
Yes, people LOVE those old homemade quilts. Heck, I would buy one even if it was in a hoarder house(as long as it was cleaned and I would clean it again myself if I knew).
Really? Fiesta dishes are worth money? We hauled out at least 4 trash barrels of those last month. The garbage man was mad because our rollies were so heavy.
You need a reputable antique dealer to accompany you.. People collect old bottles, purses etc. That screen was a mini TV and cassette player lol. From the 70s! Happy hunting. X
I would love to see more cleanup and finding treasures. You should have someone with you in case of rotten floorboards. Better safe than sorry. Hi from Canada🇨🇦
I second the motion! I used to work for the Red Cross Book Fair in my town and the things we found in books! One time there was a fake Reader's Digest Condensed Book with $2,000 in cash in it. We tried to trace the donor to return the money but sometimes people would drop off bags and boxes of books, decline to get a receipt, and would leave. We guessed someone was clearing out an estate and just wanted the books gone. The money did go to the Red Cross so even though we never located the giver the money was put to good use.
@@tylermallory2504 Back when I was in high school in the 70's I had two friends who were cousins to each other and who looked after the house of their aunt who was on vacation. The aunt was quite the book reader and had the odd practice of using money for bookmarks and leaving the money in the books when she had read them. My friends went through just the books in the living room and found, as I recall, over $250.00 in the book and maybe a bit more change in the sofa cushions.---Another aunt in that family, she was very old and lived "a spartan life", as I was told, with people from church sometimes bringing meals over for her,had to go into assisted living after a fall. When the house had to be cleared out there was the money sewed into towels; the money hidden in a shoebox that nearly got thrown out, etc. My friend said, "...we lost count at $225,000". The money went to the support of the aunt and her sister so was used for their benefit.
Dude you need to get a hold of Curiosity Incorporated here on TH-cam, he built a massive channel buying and clearing out and refurbishing a hoarder house.
@@tabbycat8323 My favorite part was when they pulled the wall down in the musician house basement and discovered a room full of fur coats... So much awesome in those hoarder house series.
@@tabbycat8323 What made me sad is that I couldn't get some of those clothes (too far away), they looked to be a good fit for me and she had some nice stuff.
It feels haunted for sure. I can't imagine how neglected this place has been for years. Bad vibes can gather in places like this. That being said the house is surprisingly charming and I love the squeaky sounds the wood doors and floorboards make. Once it gets cleared up it's going to be the cutest. They don't make em like this anymore
A tip. Set aside one room when cleared to store and display the items, and furniture like bookshelves with decent old books you don’t want but might be wanted by someone. Hang all the clothes that are not moth eaten in the hallway cupboard with the others. Then invite your local secondhand dealer/s to come over and make an offer on the items if you cannot be bothered with doing a ‘garage/yard sale’ Anything you know would be worth something put up for sale and put on marketplace if you want to maximise your profit and have time
@@sableann4255 Not so, Brownie cameras are very collectible. Even that jar of buttons is sought after and will fetch a good price. Three baby cribs, safety compliant, will sell.
@@doratiscareno5856 Nah. Ghosts are people, too. Talk to them with courtesy rather than prejudice and they'll be less inclined to wreck your stuff ;) I feel a bit sorry for the lady. You can tell she was trying to keep things together by the way she put her everyday purse and shoes in the cupboard, so she wouldn't lose them. The water bottles, too. That is the act of somebody who remembers briefly that she's thirsty and has no energy to go back&forth with small cups of water, and then forgets everything again. I'd guess that she had some kind of Alzheimer's related dementia, rather than a 'hoarder' problem (those are usually a symptom of OCD.)
@Dylans Garage You would love to visit my neck of the woods. I have an old still 100 yds in front my house I found squirrel hunting. There's a pond about 1/4 mile down the road with 2 more stills, one is up at the front and one is near the rear of the pond and there is one more that I don't know how I came across but it's a few hundred yards back in the woods off of some power lines. I have so many jars, I don't know what to do with them. I've got green, purple, brown, blue, clear gallon jugs and they must have all been connected someway. All of them have been axed but I was able to save many of the jars and i'm sure there's more but there all located in low spots and a lot of it is covered in mud. My Dad is 74 and he said that it was before his time so there's no telling how old some of the stuff is. I posted them and everyone seems to want the larger ones but I just couldn't let them go for the price they wanted to give. I really thought the colored ones would have been wanted by someone but many of those were smaller jars but they were very beautiful. Especially the dark blue jars. I don't know what it is but that dark blue just caught my eye and I don't want to just give them away. I want to run my metal detector through them one day but there's so much aluminum that's been chopped up with axes, it would take me months to go through just one site. I'd be glad to post them somewhere or send you some images of them if you would like.
My aunt had lived to a ripe old age in a house her husband built for her, never had children but she and her husband owned so many business in that small town like a movie theater, the only mecentile and grocery stores and uncle was a surveyor, a draftsman, a sheriff and a school math teacher and principle. Aunt lived 59 years longer. When she died she made me the executer of her will. Living in another state, I had so much time to empty her two story house so I rented a huge dumpster and started tossing whatever seemed like junk, like stacks of old calenders since 1921 on and columns to the ceiling of old Post and McCall magazines and old bank receipts and surveyor stuff and seats and old posters from the old movie theater, ect. A historian came by and said I was crazy for dumping these historical things.. Aunt Maud was one year older than the state of Idaho. We gave him some of the dumped artifacts for a museum and he hired us a auctionier. Just off what we had thrown away after the auction came to $7000. So get a knowledgeable person to help you access your junk before tossing. There was a huge heavy pottery bowl for bread making dough that went for $800. The old canning jars went for a huge price. I forgot to mention uncle was the bank president so there was old cash registers and adding machines we were going to toss . They all went for good money. Like who knew. She left us a huge windfall from her Junk when all was cleared.
I feel your pain brother. A close friend passed away and my wife did the Lions share of cleaning her hoarder house. 2 story with attic, basement and a barn. Also can't forget her 18 cats. The hard part is you HAVE to go through EVERYTHING. Our friends hoarder house had around $2500 in loose coins, $800 in cash and $105000 in bonds which were in a box under a pile. This doesn't include the new power tools still in boxs.
Sorry for your loss. So kind of your wife to help with all the cleaning. This is actually very sad, hoarding is a mental illness. People with these issues suffer immensely and sad her cats were left alone. I hope they were given to a local shelter or found good homes.
Yes please I want to see more! There was an old hair dryer in there and some other stuff women would know about! Don't let an opportunity pass you by without getting some advice from the ladies. I live in California and people are always looking for vintage clothes!
Just on my perspective, there are a whole bunch of salable items in that house…for instance, that Lowery organ is probably a vacuum tube type and depending on the speaker can be rehabilitated cheaply and worth a couple hundred dollars. That kerosene heater can be used in one of your shops, they really work quite well. Be sure to check all the books, especially bibles as that’s where paper currency is normally hidden. You can probably sell or donate most of the furniture you don’t want to keep. Most of what I saw was antique anyway. Happy treasure hunting!
That’s hoarder mentality. Just because things are old and mildly interesting doesn’t make them valuable. And one must consider what their time messing with the crap is worth. Moving, storing, repairing, all the legwork and time spent trying to sell stuff, and often you end up keeping it because you gave up trying to sell it… that’s how houses get this way. I know, I live in one and have found myself in this loop before. Do yourself a favor and get rid of as much as possible. Invite people over to take anything they like, and wash your hands of it. Your soul will appreciate the lightened burden. Worst case you find out later that you gave away or threw away something that was worth a few hundred bucks. But guess what, you’ll have many hours of your life that you can enjoy doing something else that you didn’t waste goofing with trash. Things come and go. But your time…. You can never get it back. Nothing is more valuable than your time, because no amount of money can buy you more of it.
Most of that stuff probably came from a dump that's what meth people do they collect stuff and just pile it up that's how it works I've seen it myself go through your local neighborhood you got houses with piles of crap everywhere around the yard bingo.
You may need to rent a high wall open top dumpster before this is finished ! A roofers ramp may be placed up to the upstairs window to make it easier to move all the trash down to your trailer .
I, too, would love to see more of this clean out. Makes me wish I was there to help you. It must have been a cute house at one time, so if it's structurally sound, someone who knows how to renovate could really bring it back to life.
This house has character and good bones. I'm in a 1901 two-story Craftsman. Still working on it, reminds me of your house. The staircase is in good shape. You've got a lot of good furniture in there. Antiques and vintage. People are restoring this left and right! Nice windows sitting on the porch too. Most hoarders will hoard cash. Have fun:-
Just went through this with my uncle's house, he was a hoarder of electronics and television station equipment. We had so much junk to haul away, so I feel your pain. We found a lot of neat stuff and good memories as well, though. He had a really cool Jukebox that he left me that I got working in his memory.
Whoever lived there was a Depression Baby. They save EVERYTHING like nails, buttons, etc. because "you never know when you'll need it." I'm living a similar experience right now though not nearly to the same degree. My Dad was a product of parents who lived through the Depression.
Exactly I'd be looking for secret compartmants or loose floorboards even in side some of that furniture my grandpa had a hollow space in his matress there was close to 70,000 stuffed in it from he never used a bank he might find a stack of silver gold coins you never know
@@trixxter8494 you are absolutely correct. It would be sad to see him sell that house for $25,000 and then find out later that they found a quarter million in the walls. If they're saving mail like that you better believe they're stashing cash somewhere or other things of high-value. He even mentioned how normally there's storage underneath stairs but could not find the weigh-in that's the first place I would start looking. I have storage underneath my new house and I could easily stash anything I want Hunter they're worth money and put a panel over the area where the door used to be from ceiling to floor so it didn't look suspicious.
Can't see much with the light issue but I can see you have lots of valuable stuff. Be careful in you cleaning out clothes can have money in the pockets. One clean out we found over 500. In purses and coat pockets, jars cans etc...
Mama always cut the buttons off old clothes and put in a jar. Said if you lost a button she would have one close enough to use. Then she cut up the old clothes for cleaning rags
The machine with the video screen and audio compartment is vintage A/V equipment, a Beseler Cue/See Projector, probably the 2400 Model - I found an out-of-stock listing for one on Etsy for $75 (with the understanding work needed to be done on that one). Might be able to sell it as-is to A/V collectors and enthusiasts, as it seems to be pretty rare. Interesting video!
Your optimism and sunny disposition will certainly see you through this daunting project. I'm glad to see you want to salvage that beautiful old home. The front porch is so charming with its graceful arches. I trust along the way you'll find era appropriate items to display if you want. Good luck on your mission of mercy.
My land lady asked me to go with her to help clean out her cousin's old house. She warned me before hand that we would be on "trails" leading from one room to the other. I thought..ok. When we got there I was shocked. No way to describe the place. Un-opened Christmas gifts, boxes upon boxes of stuff piled high. Everything from Corning ware cookware, still in the boxes, house robes, slippers, etc. still new with tags etc. sets of new bath towels, lamps, books, fry pans, etc. can openers, cosmetics everywhere, all still in wrap, perfume, never been opened, gift bags of stuff, new shoes still in their boxes, cases of soups, sets of dishes, glass ware, all new, and lots more ....and we were just inside the door ! ! Long story short...it took us 2 weeks, to get the stuff out. A lot went to the burn pile. (rat infested). Each room held new things, mops, brooms, drapes, bed sheets never been opened, bathroom sets, ooohhhh , our cars were filled. So sad however, so much money wasted on all items bought to just set there and never be used. Last of all was the old barn.` Antiques galore. Land lady said get what all I wanted, so I did and so did she. (even an old wooden plow). It was a lot of work, but we did it, and the payoff was really good. The cousin ? She had gone to a mental ward.
Aw, that’s sad about the cousin. Hopefully she didn’t REALLY lose her mind when she saw her stuff gone. I don’t know of any permanent mental wards like insane asylums used to be so I am sure she came back home at some point.
@@meganr9280 No, she never did. Bit it came out later she had been on stuff for years...she believed people stalked her, even when the mail man put her mail in her box, when the man read the water meter etc.
@@meganr9280 Regardless that is unhealthy to live that way. Once it gets to a point if making trails then what access does she have to clean, eat healthy, be clean herself. You can’t get to anything. I am sure the woman didn’t just sell or take her stuff. Her cousin must have had issues for years for it to gave gotten to that point. She had to have had POA over her affairs. You have to prove someone is a danger to themselves or others in order for them to be admitted to an institution or rehab facility. Unless they do it willingly. Otherwise you can’t force a person to or just someones mere suggestion to authorities isn’t enough. Its sad though!
@@cierakitty that sounds like schizophrenia. It’s sad how hoarders tend to have mental health issues. It seems like most I’ve seen have some background story of their childhood or something that shapes their behaviors.
@@soulfireonfire6423 Oh, I agree 100% but it is still sad how they have such issues that they can’t part with anything. It is very unhealthy behavior all around. For themselves and their families.
Absolutely love the video I love seeing old houses especially an old hoarder house mainly just old houses in general and would love to see more of the house cleaning
Please do more videos on this. I wonder if there’s an attic in the house? Sometimes the attic access is inside one of the closets in the bedrooms. My grandmother‘s house had the same situation where there was no closet door to get access to under the stairs, you might want to check and see if there’s any loose paneling at Cetera but it may have been in an accessible area as it was built. Would love to see more videos.
Man, I can't imagine how long this would take even multiple people trying to clean this up and go through valuables. Looks so frigging overwhelming. Such a beautiful house though-it'll be totally worth it. Can't wait to see the transformation!
Check everything! Hoarders hide treasure in the plain site and easily over looked. I found over 2,000$ in a box of news papers. Looks like a lot of resale treasures.
I feel your pain man. My wife and I were given my father-in-law's homestead because him and my mother-in-law bought a different house and couldn't afford both. My mother-in-law's a horder and I've taken 8 dumpsters full of stuff out of the place and barely made a dent in it.😑 Good luck.
Burn pile if you live on good amount of acres burn pile best bet just be careful and watch where you put it dont want to catch field, trees, or house ect on fire. And dont use a lot of gas dad just soaked a rag and lit that in the pile
Don't let the junk and clutter blind you to the antiques and other collectables! Keep it ventilated while you stir up the memories et al. Time travel at your fingertips!
You should do an episode or include it your next pod cast where you tell your friends story, how you knew him, or the story of the hoarder. It would be a nice gesture for there memory to share it I think
Congratulations Isaac on your “inheritance” of this home. Rest In Peace to the former Owner of the House. I wish I were there to help you, but I know I would slow down the removal of everything in the House. Actually I would put everything in a place where I could sort them out and sell them. I grew up going to a neighboring rubbish dump and watch my Father take whatever he could and reuse them. I love old Things. I find Beauty in them and it’s also good for the Earth that we not waste.
You might just have a rolloff dumpster brought in. If you set it right you can toss things right out of an upstairs window into it. They cost a bit, but you only handle the stuff once and no trips to the dump.
Keep up the cleaning! I had my hoarder house experience in West Texas. With my inheritance I bought an acre that came with a 700sqft house. It was abandoned around the same time, early 2000s but it is solid besides the extension of a bathroom which had collapsed. It was 100x more nasty than yours. Doors wide open, broken windows, and tons of rat shit. Years worth of dust storms, dusted it out. Dr. Pepper cans covered every sqft of that house but I got it cleaned up. There are still some cans under it till this day lol
It's a shame, I feel a bit bad that poor lady lived like that and it looks like it once was a nice place. Im an electrician and used to be in the renovation business, I've also been in a similar situation cleaning out after someone passed. You are looking at 6 months of full time work if you DIY the place back to livable / rent-able / sell-able condition. Plus the cost of a septic system, windows and doors, and all the other materials. I hate to say, you'll likely get more for selling the land if you just tear the house down. But I hope you show a bit more, it's definitely interesting! Thank you for sharing.
I also inherited a hoarder house. 3 years and $45,000 in sales of stuff later, we sold it. Had three estate sales and repainted every wall, removed wall papers, carpet. Under all the crap was a really nice 1910’s house in good condition! Good luck.
I'm new to your channel. I would love to see what else you find in the old house. And so looking forward to what it will look like empty. Love the stair case. Thank you for sharing and look forward to more.
Cleaning something up like that is back breaking work. I've done it before, and wasn't fun. You gotta be pretty darn careful about it too. Nice house though, too bad it wasn't taken better care of.
Reminds me of my friends house she did garage sales for years until she only had trails in her home. Then she got sick and was in the hospital. People broke in and tore up the place looking for things now its a real disaster.
I'd love to watch you exploring the treasures and the junk in the house. It's exciting to see you inherit a house with all that stuff in it! Sure it's alot of work, but you'll probably find alot of cool stuff. Happy Hunting. The house looks good as far as the structure. Make a good home for someone. Thank you for sharing. My family and I love watching your adventures.
Wow!! Lots of work to do cleaning..Clean the house, fix it and sell it..I want to see update once it is ready for the market..Take care and stay safe and healthy..
Cool episode! Definitely keep cleaning it out, its gonna be hot in there in the coming months. Look in all the books for money. Some years ago I found $400 bucks in a Bible from a house I cleaned out. I was told I could keep whatever I found that I was interested in. I kept the Bible the cash and other odds and ends. Keep us updated as you go.
That place is awesome I've done a couple properties like that everything you do Is an improvement you don't see it at first but after a few days it becomes a mission and it's always been worth it for me at least
I helped my cousin clean out my aunts house. She had saved newspapers for about 50 years. There were those big thick newspapers. not like the skimpy ones now. Then there was all the other junk, plus buried furniture. We just had a dumpster backed up to the house. When it was full, hauled it off, replaced by another.[oh yeah, we found a room that had been hidden.]
I can relate to this as my father in law had a six bed house in central London, It took six months to clear out The property recently sold for a million plus. So glad we were rewarded!😂
I would like to see the layout of the property its on. Do your best at checking things when we cleaned out my grandmother's house we found about 3500 dollars stashed throughout the house...1200 behind a picture....1000 under her mattress...etc.
If in good condition you have so many high valued antiques there. I love these kinds of videos, I'd love to see more on this one. I've always wanted to go through a hoaders house.
I’d love to see more of this home and it’s contents! Too bad a bunch of your viewers can’t be there and help sift through. Some of us that are older would get a total kick out of coming across things we haven’t seen since childhood! I helped a friend go through several of her great Aunt’s rent houses and her main residence. She was quite well off but had just kept every thing in the world. She had a complete filing cabinet of cards from her husband dating back to just starting to date through 50 years of marriage. They definitely had a true love story. Anyway, she said to just dump the cards in a trashcan but I started going through them instead. There was everything from $5 to $1000 literally in every single card I opened!! I ended up finding several thousand dollars just from him to her. I then found many cards thanking her husband for financially helping someone out. There were several with old checks he never cashed and I’m sure accounts closed but also several with up to $1000 cash in them to reimburse him. We also found money in silk flower baskets under the crumbling foam. We spent several nights a week and hours every weekend going through everything. I throughly enjoyed it!
Not sure how cold it gets there, I know it does get cold. Could you imagine heating that place with the upstairs as open (with no insulation) as it is!?! Crazy! You might find some real gems in there. Looks like they were unique people before all the clutter. The bedrooms still being full feels like the kids left and they never touched the rooms other than to fill them up. Very interesting joint!
I believe that what you're thinking is a Microfiche viewer is actually a filmstrip machine. Somewhere in there you would load a film strip (so... a roll of pictures), load a tape, and the tape would go along with the pictures. When it was time to change the picture, you'd get a BEEP on the tape so you'd know to push the button. It could also be an outright film movie player, but the ones I remember would normally be long, not wide. I only remember seeing the individual user ones like that in libraries. More commonly I saw projectors that would be used for an educational thing shared to an entire classroom. I am just _barely_ old enough that our school system still occasionally used them. Then it was on to video tapes... I'll be back for the next installment when you find a bunch of skeletons walled into the space under the steps. 😆
I lost a good friend December of 2020 to covid. His house was in the same condition. It is amazing what people will keep. It was his mothers hoard and he couldn't bring himself to clean it out. He was the kindest most giving and caring person in the world so much so he neglected himself.
@@malbers35 you obviously haven't lost anyone to covid. To some it's a cold but to others it destroys their lungs and or hearts. My daughter luckily had a mild case but know others that passed away. Be kind.
I would love to see more videos of you rummaging through your inherited junk. I would ask $50+ $50 shipping for that Royal typewriter on eBay. Great video, Thanks for sharing!
I think I would call the local firefighters and let them set it on fire, but specify that they have to let it burn for an hour before putting out the fire. It would be great practise for them.
Just Stumbled here, Awesome & Interesting Content! The 2-litter Bottles w/ Water in them, Back then this was used to remove Negative Energy or Spirts, that's why there is no caps on them, to collect them & Capped when they are confined! Because apparently folks back then thought, once these spirts/ energy hit or come around Water, It will Confine them, forever. (Or so they say & thought) Odd Beliefs Most Folks Believed in back then! Awesome Finds!! Thanks for the Walk Down Memory-Lane!! More On this House!!
I would have paid to have the chance to help clean up this place without anything in return. Its the privilege to be able to witness history in general that draws me to places such as these.
Years ago I was helping a friend and her parents clean out elderly relatives house. We stopped for lunch. When I came back with lunch they had put boxes and boxes of books at the curb. One of the books caught my eye and I started flipping through the pages and found a ten dollar bill and then a twenty dollar bill. I went inside and told my friend's mother what I had found. You never saw people haul boxes of books back into a house in record time! We spent the rest of the afternoon flipping through all the books and magazines and finding money. We found money in old bar soap boxes and folded towels in the linen closet. My friend told me her family eventually found $7500. Her mother used the money to buy auntie and uncle new furniture, drapes, a colored tv ( they never had a colored tv b4 only black & white), mattresses, shoes and clothes for their retirement apartment. Household goods weren't needed since meals were served downstairs in the dining room of the facility. Look through everything you never know where people have stashed valuables and money.
To begin with, someone had a pretty big family, with that many bedrooms and baby beds. It looks as though several generations of the family lived there at the same time. The mess would likely be explained by the relatives rooting through everything to find what they wanted or wanted to keep, as each of them would have contributed to the piles, separately and when married off, would have left some behind to begin a "new life". I'd love to have a home, myself, but I doubt that at my age I'd be able to finish re-working it completely. Nothing to worry about with a two holer in the back yard, I grew up with one and as long as you spray for wasps and other critters, it'll do just fine. Be sure to check the quality of the well water, though and be prepared to quick lime the old hole when you dig another. In the old days, you could donate the clothes and unwanted accessories to Goodwill or whoever or put them on the side of the road with a "free" sign to cut down the dump load.
Good on you for getting that knocked out on your own man. 👏🏼 I had a similar situation when one of my loved ones passed and it took the whole family to get it cleared out.
Just found you this morning! Wow what a job but man you must have scored so many vintage collectibles! It's amazing how valuable some items are that you think are just junk and the weird places hoarders hide things. What a cool old house! Looking forward to binge watching your videos today. Old buttons are valuable too!
I feel ya man. When my inlaws passed away we had to clean out their house. I spent 3 hours on the small laundry room and barely made it passed the doorway. We ended up leaving everything and let the people who bought the property demolish the entire thing. Could been a million dollars in there for all I know lol.
I’d love to see you maybe do minor repairs like electricity/ more clean up. This is such a unique house. I couldn’t imagine getting a house for free with all of that stuff😅 literally a dream. Houses cost so much money.
I certainly want to see more of this cleanup. The idea of secret rooms is fascinating and all those collectables in every nook and cranny. You have a huge job ahead of you. I don't envy all your work, I hope the resale is worth all your efforts and expenses
Looks like a pretty neat old house, seems fairly sturdy. Not exactly sure about coming down those stairs and running your head into those roofing nails between the trusses. 🤕 Still to me I always find it fun digging through old houses and finding cool stuff. I have no problem going into places like this and helping people clean it out, just as long as I'm not going through the floor. Hope to see more of this house in your venture into the unknown!!!
Also, take the backs off of any wall hangings(painting, photos, etc...), carefully if you wish to not ruin the art. That's another old hiding place for loot...!
As uneasy as this video made me feel, I'd very much like to see more! Please do more videos like this! P.s. PLEASE get rid of them dolls. things are spooky..
Try and bring someone with you when going in a place like that, bud! You never know when a floor might be rotted through when it is covered in trash. Stay safe, good luck!
Man one of my best friends grandma was a hoarder, he was going to have access to the house after she died to pick through and got what he wanted but the house collapsed in on itself a few months before she died. He said it was mostly junk but one thing he knew was there was a new in box 1953 Corvette pedal car, and this was before 2008 so he could have sold that thing for 6 figures probably...
Basically everyone on here saying "oh a lot of those items are sellable" are just as nutty (with all due respect)as the person who filled that house up with junk. Just call the town make sure the gas, water, and electric are shut off, cut off, and capped off-then bulldoze the whole damn thing and sell the land.
Who’s nutty? Bulldoze a house when lumber prices are thousands of percent marked up? When houses themselves are more valuable than ever before? When replacing the house would cost more than at any other point in history? When homelessness and unemployment are at all time highs? Are you insane!? Clean it, paint it, flip it, make out like a bandit. There are tens of thousands of people staying in hotels in my area who would literally kill for that house, even with the garbage.
Well.. I'd look through any porcelain there first, along with the paintings, any hidden spaces in furniture that might hide valuables as well. Why ? Because sometimes those pieces & spaces might hide something worth thousands of dollars that might get lost because it's something that just looks like random junk at the spot due too dirt & grime, maybe the oil paintings is some minor famous local artist for example that could be a few 100 or 1000's of dollars due too the fame of the artist in those parts.
I would LOVE to seethe find especially old kitchen tools and in the book cupboards actually everything! I just found your channel and subscribed. Be careful with those old floors and stairs! God bless, from 🇨🇦.
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I'd love to see a tour of the house after it's been cleaned out
We had a house down the road a few years ago and the threw everything out in a big dumpster. So me and my Wife went dumpster diving just to see what we could find, she found a few boxes of dish towels and regular towels. When she lifted the towels out of the boxes money come falling out of them! It was a lot of old silver dollar’s and some regular ones, I couldn’t believe it!
The unknowns are often always hidden Esp under some type of junk, you got lucky
Cleaned out after some hoarder meth heads were evicted. Found a box of football cards and a cool train set lol. It wasn't cool enough to offset the literal piles of needles that were in the "drug den" portion of the house. Thankfully they were all within a few feet of the bathroom
SCORE 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼
Yeah some ppl hide money in books. Imagine all the books that get thrown away lol
@@sioned70 True! My friend would put 100 dollar bill in a random book every payday.
Who else was screaming, "If you take the coverings off the windows you will get more light in there!!!"
I'd be climbing in there to open doors & windows to get air circulation and light. That place has to stink!
It's probably a bad neighborhood so he's leaving the covers on until he check for valuables.
Guys don't think of those things, women are just inheretly more common sense then men. He does not even see the windows.!!!! Plus, open the windows and put some box fans in the windows sucking the old air out of the house.!!!!!!
He can't even reach the windows by the look of things.
@@auzzygirl8175 nope.
Love these old homes. That porch is beautiful.
I like that you were going through the purses and books. Also be on the look out for old quilts. Even if they are torn or stained they can still be worth money. Also look for Pyrex dishes , vintage Fiesta, and other stone ware.
I saw a quilt, in the first room, and he didn't save it 😔
@@AnniePA1960 Me too! 😔
Yes, people LOVE those old homemade quilts. Heck, I would buy one even if it was in a hoarder house(as long as it was cleaned and I would clean it again myself if I knew).
Really? Fiesta dishes are worth money? We hauled out at least 4 trash barrels of those last month. The garbage man was mad because our rollies were so heavy.
You need a reputable antique dealer to accompany you.. People collect old bottles, purses etc. That screen was a mini TV and cassette player lol. From the 70s! Happy hunting. X
I would love to see more cleanup and finding treasures. You should have someone with you in case of rotten floorboards. Better safe than sorry. Hi from Canada🇨🇦
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Smart going through the books. Hoarders will stash valuables like cash, deeds, bonds and stocks, ect. in books and old envelopes.
I found $40 in a old book at goodwill. 2 -$20s they were from the 80s.
Not necessarily just hoarders, just about anyone who lived around the depression typically did this
Not just hoarders my friend. Lawyers, doctors and the average Joe Schmo will stash too. Hey, great video. I actually sneezed watching this video. Lol
I second the motion! I used to work for the Red Cross Book Fair in my town and the things we found in books! One time there was a fake Reader's Digest Condensed Book with $2,000 in cash in it. We tried to trace the donor to return the money but sometimes people would drop off bags and boxes of books, decline to get a receipt, and would leave. We guessed someone was clearing out an estate and just wanted the books gone. The money did go to the Red Cross so even though we never located the giver the money was put to good use.
@@tylermallory2504 Back when I was in high school in the 70's I had two friends who were cousins to each other and who looked after the house of their aunt who was on vacation. The aunt was quite the book reader and had the odd practice of using money for bookmarks and leaving the money in the books when she had read them. My friends went through just the books in the living room and found, as I recall, over $250.00 in the book and maybe a bit more change in the sofa cushions.---Another aunt in that family, she was very old and lived "a spartan life", as I was told, with people from church sometimes bringing meals over for her,had to go into assisted living after a fall. When the house had to be cleared out there was the money sewed into towels; the money hidden in a shoebox that nearly got thrown out, etc. My friend said, "...we lost count at $225,000". The money went to the support of the aunt and her sister so was used for their benefit.
Dude you need to get a hold of Curiosity Incorporated here on TH-cam, he built a massive channel buying and clearing out and refurbishing a hoarder house.
Yeah that house was stuffed full of good stuff, clothes, pottery and piles of paper mostly.
Love , Curiosity Inc.
@@tabbycat8323 My favorite part was when they pulled the wall down in the musician house basement and discovered a room full of fur coats... So much awesome in those hoarder house series.
@@terramarini6880 that was a great find! Mary definitely liked her clothes and coats. 😆
@@tabbycat8323 What made me sad is that I couldn't get some of those clothes (too far away), they looked to be a good fit for me and she had some nice stuff.
It feels haunted for sure. I can't imagine how neglected this place has been for years. Bad vibes can gather in places like this. That being said the house is surprisingly charming and I love the squeaky sounds the wood doors and floorboards make. Once it gets cleared up it's going to be the cutest. They don't make em like this anymore
A tip. Set aside one room when cleared to store and display the items, and furniture like bookshelves with decent old books you don’t want but might be wanted by someone. Hang all the clothes that are not moth eaten in the hallway cupboard with the others.
Then invite your local secondhand dealer/s to come over and make an offer on the items if you cannot be bothered with doing a ‘garage/yard sale’
Anything you know would be worth something put up for sale and put on marketplace if you want to maximise your profit and have time
this is nothing but junk, no one wants it
@@sableann4255 Not so, Brownie cameras are very collectible. Even that jar of buttons is sought after and will fetch a good price. Three baby cribs, safety compliant, will sell.
You never ever take anything from a house where they have DIED
Bring home a whole new set of problems
Nobody makes offers, price your junk.
@@doratiscareno5856 Nah. Ghosts are people, too. Talk to them with courtesy rather than prejudice and they'll be less inclined to wreck your stuff ;) I feel a bit sorry for the lady. You can tell she was trying to keep things together by the way she put her everyday purse and shoes in the cupboard, so she wouldn't lose them. The water bottles, too. That is the act of somebody who remembers briefly that she's thirsty and has no energy to go back&forth with small cups of water, and then forgets everything again. I'd guess that she had some kind of Alzheimer's related dementia, rather than a 'hoarder' problem (those are usually a symptom of OCD.)
Yes, we want to see more, this will make a great playlist room by room.
Theres gonna be mountains of junk but plenty of cool stuff.
I want to see more on you cleaning the house. Maybe you'll find a secret room. Or old bottles from the prohibition days. Or old secret compartments
I'd definitely like to see more videos of the cleanup as well, and then see what the old house looks like once it's not full of junk!
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You would love to visit my neck of the woods. I have an old still 100 yds in front my house I found squirrel hunting. There's a pond about 1/4 mile down the road with 2 more stills, one is up at the front and one is near the rear of the pond and there is one more that I don't know how I came across but it's a few hundred yards back in the woods off of some power lines. I have so many jars, I don't know what to do with them. I've got green, purple, brown, blue, clear gallon jugs and they must have all been connected someway. All of them have been axed but I was able to save many of the jars and i'm sure there's more but there all located in low spots and a lot of it is covered in mud. My Dad is 74 and he said that it was before his time so there's no telling how old some of the stuff is. I posted them and everyone seems to want the larger ones but I just couldn't let them go for the price they wanted to give. I really thought the colored ones would have been wanted by someone but many of those were smaller jars but they were very beautiful. Especially the dark blue jars. I don't know what it is but that dark blue just caught my eye and I don't want to just give them away. I want to run my metal detector through them one day but there's so much aluminum that's been chopped up with axes, it would take me months to go through just one site. I'd be glad to post them somewhere or send you some images of them if you would like.
My aunt had lived to a ripe old age in a house her husband built for her, never had children but she and her husband owned so many business in that small town like a movie theater, the only mecentile and grocery stores and uncle was a surveyor, a draftsman, a sheriff and a school math teacher and principle. Aunt lived 59 years longer. When she died she made me the executer of her will. Living in another state, I had so much time to empty her two story house so I rented a huge dumpster and started tossing whatever seemed like junk, like stacks of old calenders since 1921 on and columns to the ceiling of old Post and McCall magazines and old bank receipts and surveyor stuff and seats and old posters from the old movie theater, ect. A historian came by and said I was crazy for dumping these historical things.. Aunt Maud was one year older than the state of Idaho. We gave him some of the dumped artifacts for a museum and he hired us a auctionier. Just off what we had thrown away after the auction came to $7000. So get a knowledgeable person to help you access your junk before tossing. There was a huge heavy pottery bowl for bread making dough that went for $800. The old canning jars went for a huge price. I forgot to mention uncle was the bank president so there was old cash registers and adding machines we were going to toss . They all went for good money. Like who knew. She left us a huge windfall from her
Junk when all was cleared.
@@gamecockmike175 I'd love to see them. Blue glas is my favorite.
How much you want to sell it for?
I feel your pain brother. A close friend passed away and my wife did the Lions share of cleaning her hoarder house. 2 story with attic, basement and a barn. Also can't forget her 18 cats. The hard part is you HAVE to go through EVERYTHING. Our friends hoarder house had around $2500 in loose coins, $800 in cash and $105000 in bonds which were in a box under a pile. This doesn't include the new power tools still in boxs.
Sorry for your loss. So kind of your wife to help with all the cleaning. This is actually very sad, hoarding is a mental illness. People with these issues suffer immensely and sad her cats were left alone. I hope they were given to a local shelter or found good homes.
What happened to the cats?
Awesome find
You can’t leave us all hanging! The cats? Did y’all get to keep the bonds? More info please!!! 😝
With my luck mice would have eaten the bonds and cash and made a nest out if it. Lol
Yes please I want to see more! There was an old hair dryer in there and some other stuff women would know about! Don't let an opportunity pass you by without getting some advice from the ladies. I live in California and people are always looking for vintage clothes!
I would love to see the clean out of this beautiful old home! There’s a lot of hidden treasures here. You will be surprised at what you will find!
Just on my perspective, there are a whole bunch of salable items in that house…for instance, that Lowery organ is probably a vacuum tube type and depending on the speaker can be rehabilitated cheaply and worth a couple hundred dollars. That kerosene heater can be used in one of your shops, they really work quite well. Be sure to check all the books, especially bibles as that’s where paper currency is normally hidden. You can probably sell or donate most of the furniture you don’t want to keep. Most of what I saw was antique anyway. Happy treasure hunting!
Bbbh
save the stuf
Even vintage clothing has value right now. You never know
Good call on checking the books
That’s hoarder mentality. Just because things are old and mildly interesting doesn’t make them valuable. And one must consider what their time messing with the crap is worth. Moving, storing, repairing, all the legwork and time spent trying to sell stuff, and often you end up keeping it because you gave up trying to sell it… that’s how houses get this way. I know, I live in one and have found myself in this loop before. Do yourself a favor and get rid of as much as possible. Invite people over to take anything they like, and wash your hands of it. Your soul will appreciate the lightened burden. Worst case you find out later that you gave away or threw away something that was worth a few hundred bucks. But guess what, you’ll have many hours of your life that you can enjoy doing something else that you didn’t waste goofing with trash. Things come and go. But your time…. You can never get it back. Nothing is more valuable than your time, because no amount of money can buy you more of it.
Make a series out of clearing it out. I find it interesting how someones whole life is in that house
Most of that stuff probably came from a dump that's what meth people do they collect stuff and just pile it up that's how it works I've seen it myself go through your local neighborhood you got houses with piles of crap everywhere around the yard bingo.
You may need to rent a high wall open top dumpster before this is finished ! A roofers ramp may be placed up to the upstairs window to make it easier to move all the trash down to your trailer .
I, too, would love to see more of this clean out. Makes me wish I was there to help you. It must have been a cute house at one time, so if it's structurally sound, someone who knows how to renovate could really bring it back to life.
This house has character and good bones. I'm in a 1901 two-story Craftsman. Still working on it, reminds me of your house. The staircase is in good shape. You've got a lot of good furniture in there. Antiques and vintage. People are restoring this left and right! Nice windows sitting on the porch too. Most hoarders will hoard cash. Have fun:-
Just went through this with my uncle's house, he was a hoarder of electronics and television station equipment. We had so much junk to haul away, so I feel your pain. We found a lot of neat stuff and good memories as well, though. He had a really cool Jukebox that he left me that I got working in his memory.
I had to do the same with my mom's stuff after she passed away. No really valuable stuff but, as you said, a lot of memories.
Whoever lived there was a Depression Baby. They save EVERYTHING like nails, buttons, etc. because "you never know when you'll need it." I'm living a similar experience right now though not nearly to the same degree. My Dad was a product of parents who lived through the Depression.
Exactly I'd be looking for secret compartmants or loose floorboards even in side some of that furniture my grandpa had a hollow space in his matress there was close to 70,000 stuffed in it from he never used a bank he might find a stack of silver gold coins you never know
@@trixxter8494 you are absolutely correct. It would be sad to see him sell that house for $25,000 and then find out later that they found a quarter million in the walls. If they're saving mail like that you better believe they're stashing cash somewhere or other things of high-value. He even mentioned how normally there's storage underneath stairs but could not find the weigh-in that's the first place I would start looking. I have storage underneath my new house and I could easily stash anything I want Hunter they're worth money and put a panel over the area where the door used to be from ceiling to floor so it didn't look suspicious.
Can't see much with the light issue but I can see you have lots of valuable stuff. Be careful in you cleaning out clothes can have money in the pockets. One clean out we found over 500. In purses and coat pockets, jars cans etc...
Both my parents lived through the Depression. They were frugal, but didn't save everything. Mother was a fastidious housekeeper.
Mama always cut the buttons off old clothes and put in a jar. Said if you lost a button she would have one close enough to use. Then she cut up the old clothes for cleaning rags
The machine with the video screen and audio compartment is vintage A/V equipment, a Beseler Cue/See Projector, probably the 2400 Model - I found an out-of-stock listing for one on Etsy for $75 (with the understanding work needed to be done on that one). Might be able to sell it as-is to A/V collectors and enthusiasts, as it seems to be pretty rare. Interesting video!
Your optimism and sunny disposition will certainly see you through this daunting project. I'm glad to see you want to salvage that beautiful old home. The front porch is so charming with its graceful arches. I trust along the way you'll find era appropriate items to display if you want. Good luck on your mission of mercy.
My land lady asked me to go with her to help clean out her cousin's old house. She warned me before hand that we would be on "trails" leading from one room to the other. I thought..ok. When we got there I was shocked. No way to describe the place. Un-opened Christmas gifts, boxes upon boxes of stuff piled high. Everything from Corning ware cookware, still in the boxes, house robes, slippers, etc. still new with tags etc. sets of new bath towels, lamps, books, fry pans, etc. can openers, cosmetics everywhere, all still in wrap, perfume, never been opened, gift bags of stuff, new shoes still in their boxes, cases of soups, sets of dishes, glass ware, all new, and lots more ....and we were just inside the door ! ! Long story short...it took us 2 weeks, to get the stuff out. A lot went to the burn pile. (rat infested). Each room held new things, mops, brooms, drapes, bed sheets never been opened, bathroom sets, ooohhhh , our cars were filled. So sad however, so much money wasted on all items bought to just set there and never be used. Last of all was the old barn.` Antiques galore. Land lady said get what all I wanted, so I did and so did she. (even an old wooden plow). It was a lot of work, but we did it, and the payoff was really good. The cousin ? She had gone to a mental ward.
Aw, that’s sad about the cousin. Hopefully she didn’t REALLY lose her mind when she saw her stuff gone. I don’t know of any permanent mental wards like insane asylums used to be so I am sure she came back home at some point.
@@meganr9280 No, she never did. Bit it came out later she had been on stuff for years...she believed people stalked her, even when the mail man put her mail in her box, when the man read the water meter etc.
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Regardless that is unhealthy to live that way. Once it gets to a point if making trails then what access does she have to clean, eat healthy, be clean herself. You can’t get to anything. I am sure the woman didn’t just sell or take her stuff. Her cousin must have had issues for years for it to gave gotten to that point. She had to have had POA over her affairs.
You have to prove someone is a danger to themselves or others in order for them to be admitted to an institution or rehab facility. Unless they do it willingly. Otherwise you can’t force a person to or just someones mere suggestion to authorities isn’t enough.
Its sad though!
@@cierakitty that sounds like schizophrenia. It’s sad how hoarders tend to have mental health issues. It seems like most I’ve seen have some background story of their childhood or something that shapes their behaviors.
@@soulfireonfire6423 Oh, I agree 100% but it is still sad how they have such issues that they can’t part with anything. It is very unhealthy behavior all around. For themselves and their families.
i'd like to see you go through all the junk for hidden treasures and also to see what the place looks like cleaned up!
Absolutely love the video I love seeing old houses especially an old hoarder house mainly just old houses in general and would love to see more of the house cleaning
I'm interested in watching the house clean up and kind of what you get for it money-wise
the wig drop cracked me up Isaac 😂🤣😅😆.
Yes, i want to see more! Judging by the drapes etc, that house was once loved and taken care of. Lots of signs of a woman’s touch.
Please do more videos on this. I wonder if there’s an attic in the house? Sometimes the attic access is inside one of the closets in the bedrooms. My grandmother‘s house had the same situation where there was no closet door to get access to under the stairs, you might want to check and see if there’s any loose paneling at Cetera but it may have been in an accessible area as it was built. Would love to see more videos.
You can totally tell they went through everything
I definitely want to see more. Time lapse is fine with an overview of your finds. It’s satisfying to see the progress too!!!
Man, I can't imagine how long this would take even multiple people trying to clean this up and go through valuables. Looks so frigging overwhelming. Such a beautiful house though-it'll be totally worth it. Can't wait to see the transformation!
This video was awesome.... looks like a lotta dump runs..... for sure want to see more updates.... thanks for posting....good luck on this project...
Check everything! Hoarders hide treasure in the plain site and easily over looked. I found over 2,000$ in a box of news papers. Looks like a lot of resale treasures.
+1
Check EVERY SINGLE THING
Yes absolutely check everything including the walls and floors and crawl space and attic.
I would love to see more of the house cleaning and fixing this house up it’ll be epic
I feel your pain man. My wife and I were given my father-in-law's homestead because him and my mother-in-law bought a different house and couldn't afford both. My mother-in-law's a horder and I've taken 8 dumpsters full of stuff out of the place and barely made a dent in it.😑 Good luck.
Burn pile if you live on good amount of acres burn pile best bet just be careful and watch where you put it dont want to catch field, trees, or house ect on fire. And dont use a lot of gas dad just soaked a rag and lit that in the pile
@@elizabethb3436 I'd love to be able to do that. Unfortunately it's in town along the main road so I couldn't get away with that.
Ahh sucks
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i love to see before and afters. older houses have so much character, not like the cookie cutter houses now a days
I live in N.C. now. Enjoy watch you find small treasures in the house. Thanks for giving us enjoyable free entertainment!
Don't let the junk and clutter blind you to the antiques and other collectables! Keep it ventilated while you stir up the memories et al. Time travel at your fingertips!
That's a amazing place and would be a beautiful home again after cleaned. Sell the contents and update it. Your buddy must have really love ya.
You should do an episode or include it your next pod cast where you tell your friends story, how you knew him, or the story of the hoarder. It would be a nice gesture for there memory to share it I think
Congratulations Isaac
on your “inheritance” of this home. Rest In Peace to the former Owner of the House.
I wish I were there to help you, but I know I
would slow down the removal of everything in the House. Actually I would put everything in
a place where I could sort them out and sell them. I grew up going to a neighboring rubbish dump and watch my Father take whatever he could and reuse them.
I love old Things. I find Beauty in them and it’s also good for the Earth that we not waste.
I like the quote you used 😂😂😂😂😂 “inheritance”.
Quite the adventure there, no telling what you'd find!
You might just have a rolloff dumpster brought in. If you set it right you can toss things right out of an upstairs window into it. They cost a bit, but you only handle the stuff once and no trips to the dump.
Keep up the cleaning! I had my hoarder house experience in West Texas. With my inheritance I bought an acre that came with a 700sqft house. It was abandoned around the same time, early 2000s but it is solid besides the extension of a bathroom which had collapsed. It was 100x more nasty than yours. Doors wide open, broken windows, and tons of rat shit. Years worth of dust storms, dusted it out. Dr. Pepper cans covered every sqft of that house but I got it cleaned up. There are still some cans under it till this day lol
It's a shame, I feel a bit bad that poor lady lived like that and it looks like it once was a nice place. Im an electrician and used to be in the renovation business, I've also been in a similar situation cleaning out after someone passed. You are looking at 6 months of full time work if you DIY the place back to livable / rent-able / sell-able condition. Plus the cost of a septic system, windows and doors, and all the other materials. I hate to say, you'll likely get more for selling the land if you just tear the house down. But I hope you show a bit more, it's definitely interesting! Thank you for sharing.
Selling the land is a smart option.
I also inherited a hoarder house. 3 years and $45,000 in sales of stuff later, we sold it. Had three estate sales and repainted every wall, removed wall papers, carpet. Under all the crap was a really nice 1910’s house in good condition! Good luck.
I'm new to your channel. I would love to see what else you find in the old house. And so looking forward to what it will look like empty. Love the stair case. Thank you for sharing and look forward to more.
Cleaning something up like that is back breaking work. I've done it before, and wasn't fun. You gotta be pretty darn careful about it too. Nice house though, too bad it wasn't taken better care of.
Reminds me of my friends house she did garage sales for years until she only had trails in her home. Then she got sick and was in the hospital. People broke in and tore up the place looking for things now its a real disaster.
I'd love to watch you exploring the treasures and the junk in the house. It's exciting to see you inherit a house with all that stuff in it! Sure it's alot of work, but you'll probably find alot of cool stuff. Happy Hunting. The house looks good as far as the structure. Make a good home for someone. Thank you for sharing. My family and I love watching your adventures.
I would LOVE to follow this clean out to the end! I bet that was at one time an amazing home.
Wow!! Lots of work to do cleaning..Clean the house, fix it and sell it..I want to see update once it is ready for the market..Take care and stay safe and healthy..
Cool episode! Definitely keep cleaning it out, its gonna be hot in there in the coming months. Look in all the books for money. Some years ago I found $400 bucks in a Bible from a house I cleaned out. I was told I could keep whatever I found that I was interested in. I kept the Bible the cash and other odds and ends. Keep us updated as you go.
That place is awesome I've done a couple properties like that everything you do Is an improvement you don't see it at first but after a few days it becomes a mission and it's always been worth it for me at least
I love this house! Especially the staircase and the beautiful porch. Will you let us know once it’s available for sale?
thank you for being such a good friend to her, even if its messy she gave left you what she had.
The lady that lived there lived rent free from a friend i inherited the house from
I don't know how you can do this - I get overwhelmed just looking. You are a special person.
I helped my cousin clean out my aunts house. She had saved newspapers for about 50 years. There were those big thick newspapers. not like the skimpy ones now. Then there was all the other junk, plus buried furniture. We just had a dumpster backed up to the house. When it was full, hauled it off, replaced by another.[oh yeah, we found a room that had been hidden.]
I can relate to this as my father in law had a six bed house in central London,
It took six months to clear out
The property recently sold for a million plus.
So glad we were rewarded!😂
I would like to see the layout of the property its on. Do your best at checking things when we cleaned out my grandmother's house we found about 3500 dollars stashed throughout the house...1200 behind a picture....1000 under her mattress...etc.
The house itself is amazing. Love the old stairway. A lot of work but looks like a little goldmine.
If in good condition you have so many high valued antiques there. I love these kinds of videos, I'd love to see more on this one. I've always wanted to go through a hoaders house.
I’d love to see more of this home and it’s contents! Too bad a bunch of your viewers can’t be there and help sift through. Some of us that are older would get a total kick out of coming across things we haven’t seen since childhood! I helped a friend go through several of her great Aunt’s rent houses and her main residence. She was quite well off but had just kept every thing in the world.
She had a complete filing cabinet of cards from her husband dating back to just starting to date through 50 years of marriage. They definitely had a true love story. Anyway, she said to just dump the cards in a trashcan but I started going through them instead. There was everything from $5 to $1000 literally in every single card I opened!! I ended up finding several thousand dollars just from him to her. I then found many cards thanking her husband for financially helping someone out. There were several with old checks he never cashed and I’m sure accounts closed but also several with up to $1000 cash in them to reimburse him. We also found money in silk flower baskets under the crumbling foam. We spent several nights a week and hours every weekend going through everything. I throughly enjoyed it!
Not sure how cold it gets there, I know it does get cold. Could you imagine heating that place with the upstairs as open (with no insulation) as it is!?! Crazy! You might find some real gems in there. Looks like they were unique people before all the clutter. The bedrooms still being full feels like the kids left and they never touched the rooms other than to fill them up. Very interesting joint!
I believe that what you're thinking is a Microfiche viewer is actually a filmstrip machine. Somewhere in there you would load a film strip (so... a roll of pictures), load a tape, and the tape would go along with the pictures. When it was time to change the picture, you'd get a BEEP on the tape so you'd know to push the button. It could also be an outright film movie player, but the ones I remember would normally be long, not wide.
I only remember seeing the individual user ones like that in libraries. More commonly I saw projectors that would be used for an educational thing shared to an entire classroom. I am just _barely_ old enough that our school system still occasionally used them. Then it was on to video tapes...
I'll be back for the next installment when you find a bunch of skeletons walled into the space under the steps. 😆
Yes want to see more of cleaning the house 🏠 out.
Please.
it's worth watching you doing step by step to sell this house. Good luck depends on the condition of house
when you sell it.
I lost a good friend December of 2020 to covid. His house was in the same condition. It is amazing what people will keep. It was his mothers hoard and he couldn't bring himself to clean it out. He was the kindest most giving and caring person in the world so much so he neglected himself.
You lost him to a cold?
@@malbers35 Dude lets not have this discussion on Ikes post.
@@doncox2146 nobody gives a shit about the bs stories about people they don't know .keep the qrap to yourself.
@@malbers35 No you dufus, COVID.
@@malbers35 you obviously haven't lost anyone to covid. To some it's a cold but to others it destroys their lungs and or hearts. My daughter luckily had a mild case but know others that passed away. Be kind.
I would love to see more videos of you rummaging through your inherited junk.
I would ask $50+ $50 shipping for that Royal typewriter on eBay.
Great video, Thanks for sharing!
I think I would call the local firefighters and let them set it on fire, but specify that they have to let it burn for an hour before putting out the fire. It would be great practise for them.
I love old houses like that! I have to agree with Kevin.... I'd like to see it once it's clean.
Just Stumbled here, Awesome & Interesting Content! The 2-litter Bottles w/ Water in them, Back then this was used to remove Negative Energy or Spirts, that's why there is no caps on them, to collect them & Capped when they are confined! Because apparently folks back then thought, once these spirts/ energy hit or come around Water, It will Confine them, forever. (Or so they say & thought) Odd Beliefs Most Folks Believed in back then! Awesome Finds!! Thanks for the Walk Down Memory-Lane!! More On this House!!
I love how the only thing to make Ike visibly uncomfortable were the cobwebs… :D
I would have paid to have the chance to help clean up this place without anything in return. Its the privilege to be able to witness history in general that draws me to places such as these.
The tv would be great to hook up an old console like a N64 or C64 etc
you are one brave man! yes I want to see more and the final result. thanks for sharing
I started wheezing just watching you clean this hoarders delight!
Can that house be saved or is it a tear down?
If it is worth saving you could do a whole series on remodeling it.
Years ago I was helping a friend and her parents clean out elderly relatives house. We stopped for lunch. When I came back with lunch they had put boxes and boxes of books at the curb. One of the books caught my eye and I started flipping through the pages and found a ten dollar bill and then a twenty dollar bill. I went inside and told my friend's mother what I had found. You never saw people haul boxes of books back into a house in record time! We spent the rest of the afternoon flipping through all the books and magazines and finding money. We found money in old bar soap boxes and folded towels in the linen closet. My friend told me her family eventually found $7500. Her mother used the money to buy auntie and uncle new furniture, drapes, a colored tv ( they never had a colored tv b4 only black & white), mattresses, shoes and clothes for their retirement apartment. Household goods weren't needed since meals were served downstairs in the dining room of the facility.
Look through everything you never know where people have stashed valuables and money.
To begin with, someone had a pretty big family, with that many bedrooms and baby beds. It looks as though several generations of the family lived there at the same time. The mess would likely be explained by the relatives rooting through everything to find what they wanted or wanted to keep, as each of them would have contributed to the piles, separately and when married off, would have left some behind to begin a "new life". I'd love to have a home, myself, but I doubt that at my age I'd be able to finish re-working it completely. Nothing to worry about with a two holer in the back yard, I grew up with one and as long as you spray for wasps and other critters, it'll do just fine. Be sure to check the quality of the well water, though and be prepared to quick lime the old hole when you dig another. In the old days, you could donate the clothes and unwanted accessories to Goodwill or whoever or put them on the side of the road with a "free" sign to cut down the dump load.
Good on you for getting that knocked out on your own man. 👏🏼
I had a similar situation when one of my loved ones passed and it took the whole family to get it cleared out.
Just found you this morning! Wow what a job but man you must have scored so many vintage collectibles! It's amazing how valuable some items are that you think are just junk and the weird places hoarders hide things. What a cool old house! Looking forward to binge watching your videos today. Old buttons are valuable too!
I feel ya man. When my inlaws passed away we had to clean out their house. I spent 3 hours on the small laundry room and barely made it passed the doorway. We ended up leaving everything and let the people who bought the property demolish the entire thing. Could been a million dollars in there for all I know lol.
Look at the end of the closet in the bedroom it may have the access to under the stairs
I’d love to see you maybe do minor repairs like electricity/ more clean up. This is such a unique house. I couldn’t imagine getting a house for free with all of that stuff😅 literally a dream. Houses cost so much money.
I saw so many things that bring a dollar or 2. I love a walk through like this. I would love to inherit a treasure hunt like this.
I certainly want to see more of this cleanup. The idea of secret rooms is fascinating and all those collectables in every nook and cranny. You have a huge job ahead of you. I don't envy all your work, I hope the resale is worth all your efforts and expenses
Looks like a pretty neat old house, seems fairly sturdy. Not exactly sure about coming down those stairs and running your head into those roofing nails between the trusses. 🤕 Still to me I always find it fun digging through old houses and finding cool stuff. I have no problem going into places like this and helping people clean it out, just as long as I'm not going through the floor. Hope to see more of this house in your venture into the unknown!!!
Give every book a good shake. Hoarders like that will hide cash everywhere...!
Also, take the backs off of any wall hangings(painting, photos, etc...), carefully if you wish to not ruin the art. That's another old hiding place for loot...!
Given how many trips to the dump you'd be making, wouldn't it be an idea to rent a bin?
As uneasy as this video made me feel, I'd very much like to see more! Please do more videos like this! P.s. PLEASE get rid of them dolls. things are spooky..
Very interesting to watch i love old houses i would watch a series of you cleaning it out..
Try and bring someone with you when going in a place like that, bud! You never know when a floor might be rotted through when it is covered in trash. Stay safe, good luck!
Its not the older houses the bug me its the newer ones that seem to have that issue.
Man one of my best friends grandma was a hoarder, he was going to have access to the house after she died to pick through and got what he wanted but the house collapsed in on itself a few months before she died. He said it was mostly junk but one thing he knew was there was a new in box 1953 Corvette pedal car, and this was before 2008 so he could have sold that thing for 6 figures probably...
Basically everyone on here saying "oh a lot of those items are sellable" are just as nutty (with all due respect)as the person who filled that house up with junk. Just call the town make sure the gas, water, and electric are shut off, cut off, and capped off-then bulldoze the whole damn thing and sell the land.
Who’s nutty? Bulldoze a house when lumber prices are thousands of percent marked up? When houses themselves are more valuable than ever before? When replacing the house would cost more than at any other point in history? When homelessness and unemployment are at all time highs? Are you insane!? Clean it, paint it, flip it, make out like a bandit. There are tens of thousands of people staying in hotels in my area who would literally kill for that house, even with the garbage.
Well.. I'd look through any porcelain there first, along with the paintings, any hidden spaces in furniture that might hide valuables as well.
Why ?
Because sometimes those pieces & spaces might hide something worth thousands of dollars that might get lost because it's something that just looks like random junk at the spot due too dirt & grime, maybe the oil paintings is some minor famous local artist for example that could be a few 100 or 1000's of dollars due too the fame of the artist in those parts.
I would LOVE to seethe find especially old kitchen tools and in the book cupboards actually everything! I just found your channel and subscribed. Be careful with those old floors and stairs! God bless, from 🇨🇦.
It would be very enjoyable to see what you accomplish, with this old house. And whatever treasures you might find. Thanks for sharing