 Do you ever wonder what happens when the police leave? Crime scene cleaners are private companies that handle the cleanup after the police are gone. Spalling DeCon is one of the nation's largest cleanup companies handling the aftermath of homicides, suicides, decompositions, hoarding, and much more. These are our stories. Alright, today guys, we have a client that called us back in 2018 when his mother had passed away and she was an extreme hoarder. Holy smokes. It's not too, too bad. Oh, God. That is a big-ass tree. Yeah, there's a lot in the garage. A lot of stuff. There it is. It was a tool chest from the 30s. It had all his grandfather's tools in it. This one is 52. Wow. 1952, huh? This is an extreme level 5 hoarder. What's your header? A lot of curiosity. How did the door end up like that? Eventually, we just left it at so many times, it just came off the track. Do you mind if I just call in the cops? Oh, Jesus. Alright, today guys, we have a client that called us back in 2018 when his mother had passed away and she was an extreme hoarder. We gave him a proposal to do the work and he just couldn't do it at that point. He was super, super emotional about it. We kept in contact with him and now we're in 2021 and he is ready to let go of this house and you are going to see kind of how I walk through with it, what the house looks like now and what we can take it to. Okay, so in terms of the stuff that you want to keep, do you want the furniture or do you want items? Honestly, it's little trinkets and memorabilia type stuff. I don't know how long. Honestly, most of all of this is garbage to me. It has rat piss and shit and whatever all over it. How are the cats getting in? There's a door in the window. Oh, okay. I remember that. It was a roof issue. It has a new roof. Oh, it does have a new roof. Okay. Just the inside hasn't been repaired? Yeah, the inside hasn't been repaired yet. Okay. The water has been off for like five years. That's a good picture of you. Yeah. You got a lot of hair, huh? See your ear, yep. This is a lot for you to take on. Exactly. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, this is no joke. I can see how this would be taxing, especially doing your mom stuff. Physically, mentally. Right. I tried. I got like this out, but this is all like brand new sealed stuff. No, no siblings. All of this is like still in the box brand new, but I don't know what's good anymore. You know, like maybe that like car wash set or just like, you know, it's just such a random shit. Right. Exactly. How many bedrooms was this again? Three bedrooms. So it's two bedroom, one bath? There's supposed to be a bath in the back here. There's always this covered stuff because, you know, I grew up like this basically. Well, not like this. Right. With all the piss and shit everywhere. But, you know, there's always stuff. Was it always just you and your mom? Me and my mom, my dad. Oh, your dad passed before her? Yeah. Okay. So there's like, you know, this was my old bedroom too. There's stuff in there. This one with yours on the left? Yeah, this one right here is like what I'd probably want to go to. And then here I know she has jewelry and stuff. Okay. So it's three bedrooms? Yeah, it's a three bed, one, two, three. And there's a bathroom back there. Oh, okay. Part of the process then would be that I, you know, I go through this stuff and take out stuff that you might want. Is that kind of the goal? Do you know kind of an idea? Like anything of value basically? Basically, yeah. What about like photo albums? Yeah. Are you missing that stuff too? Yeah. There's like photos. I mean, there's like little trinkets and stuff. But did the roof get replaced before she passed or after? Before she passed. Before, okay. So it's not that old. Did you guys store anything in like the attic or anything that I need to get in there for you? No, not particularly. There's just a bunch of stuff in the rafters. Okay. In the rafters. All right. I'm going to look at the outside of it. Holy smokes. Yeah. It's not too, too bad. Oh, God. That is a big-ass tree. Yeah. Oh, my God. That's huge. Yeah. I think it's huge. And it's got a palm in the middle. Yeah. That's kind of my fault because when I think I was in sixth grade, I put it there. Oh. And now it's a beast. Yeah. Is there a fence on the other side? Yeah. There's a chain link fence. It's only like three and a half feet. All right. So how long have you been getting these code enforcement things? I've been getting them for a few years now because I'm letting them go. But I kept up with it and I cleared the property and I did what they asked. Okay. I've just been keeping them in the bay. All right. I'm assuming there's no mortgage on it. No. So that's good. At least you don't. Okay. So. There's no insurance currently on the house. This is a major rehab. That's for sure. What's on the other side of this? We call it the middle yard. A way out from the garage leads out here. Okay. And from that room up there is a sliding glass door. What's inside of it? Brass. Stuff. Overgrowth. Shrobs. Okay. So there's more overgrowth in there. Yeah. Man, this sucks. It's like a big weight on you. You know? It truly is. And I've been dealing with it for like the past five years. I mean, I've had relationship struggles. Yeah. Emotional turmoil because of this. Oh, yeah. You have nobody to help you out with any of this. It's all on you. Do you live far? Right now I'm in between places. I'm staying with my mom's friend. Okay. So. I can even try to get your code enforcement fines reduced. They're not even fines. They're just like. Well, you know how they put like a. Yeah. Yeah. They give you a time limit. I had one lady that had 150 grand of fines and I got it reduced to 5,000. So yeah, she was, she just let it go for like 20 years. All right. Oh man. This is a mountain for you. It is. Definitely. There's a lot in the garage, but I remember when I was 15, I was able to like clear out half of it and half a day. Oh wow. Yeah. Because it's, it's, it's really just like it's not, it is a lot of stuff. Yes. But it can just come out. No problem. Right. I don't want it. I don't want it. Is this mostly your mom doing this or was your dad doing it to your mom? All this stuff is like stuff that's never been out of the box, but a lot of it I probably don't even need. I probably take the sealant meal with this like wrapped in plastic enough. Oh yeah, there is. I see. So Laura, what's the deal for today? Search and rescue. So please. Eric, is this your first time in a horde? It is not actually. I used to do this back in the day so it kind of brings back some familiar times. Back in the day, my family used to buy flip houses and they were foreclosures and people would normally leave their stuff but they would actually trash the homes. And we'd walk into them the same way. Either the walls would be destroyed or the materials would be left and do the same I think the biggest difference would probably be the temperature. Up in Ohio it's 34 degrees and you're in jackets and sweaters and nice thing is you can do it down here in shorts and t-shirts. We would go in with those one yard and two yard dumpsters just like I seen back at the warehouse. And you would just go in with big snow shovels and just try to clear it out. A couple of them were so bad that we would actually go in with a tractor in the bucket and we would actually cut a hole in the door and actually would actually scoop the materials out. One of the worst ones I ever went to was we went to this house where there was a foreclosure unfortunately and they cut the sewage lines to the house and they still used it for about two months. I've never seen that happen a lot. So I'm sure you're familiar with that one. The hestrucks? Yeah. Those are so old. This is trash. It's got hole in it. Any other boxes like new stuff? Not much. What about that weed thing? That's the one. Is there a bunch of angels? Do you want them? No. I really don't. So do you want us to start moving this stuff then? Yeah. Unless you know of something in here. I don't see anything other than pots and pans. Yeah really that's probably about it. Maybe like little trinkets up on the wall there. Can we start with this one? Let there be light. This was your room right? It was. Okay. Is there anything that you know from memory that was in here? It was so long ago. I don't really know. As you bring stuff out I'll probably go through it a little bit and see if it works out. I know that there's like an N64. Let's take a Genesis in there. Oh. Let's take a guitar. Maybe I can do a lullaby. What do you think he's looking for? Segal. Maybe a band. Nintendo 64. Are we doing any clothes? There's books and a drawer. And books on the shelf over here. And blankets. Do you want any of these books or anything? I don't want to see them anymore. I'm not going to tell them. This book. It's kind of lame. There's that brand new space bag. It's still in the box right below you. If you want to take that out as well. They'll seal it up. What cemetery? What are the major civilizations? Well because I had to climb up. Yeah. Ceilings cave in and up there. What's it like back there? Funny. Same. I don't trust clothes. Like a monkey of my entire life. Yeah. I know how to scale the jet. Crocodile Dundee. I asked my camera though. Like it was handmade. Awesome. There it is. It was a tool chest from the 30s. It had all his grandfather's tools in it. Wow. School drill. Oh my god. Four batteries. Another hand drill. Wow. I don't know what the base is on this piece. It's really good. That's really old. Hunches. All of the bits and things. They don't make stuff like that anymore. It's probably from like the 40s or 30s. A new refrigerator. A new refrigerator. A nice bomber's. Pound red supply. This is from Korea. This one is 52. Wow. 1952, huh? Yeah. Wow. Triple slayer put on most of the night. What paper is it? Yeah. Which city is it? Syracuse. Yeah. In her old journal. This is newspaper. Wow. Put that. Yeah. This is all good. That's awesome. I mean I don't think there's anything that he's going to want in here. We might have to go from the other way now. From the inside. All I see is a washing machine. A water heater. That's ancient. And that's it. And everything else is wood and trash. This is an extreme level 5 wood. Extreme. And the chances of getting trapped in here are very high. It says Sullivan furniture. Oh, it's the entertainment center. This big box. It looks almost like that one. No. Oh, it's a computer desk. No. There you go. What's that one? People. That's what I'm saying. Worst case scenario, you sell it. Okay, it's going to come down with authority. Watch your ankles. Mom holds you up like that. There's a bucket full of yard tools. Do you want that? You can sell it. Yeah. Christmas tree? No. That's a hard no on that one. That's a hard no. Watch your head. Sweet man. Happy birthday. One of the last time you move like this, Laura. More frequent than I'd like to say. There you go. Dude, I put off more than I can chew on this boy. Hey, do you want to take a look here and tell him what to pull? It's always just random. I just don't even know. Out of curiosity, how did the door end up like that? Eventually, we just stuffed it in so many times. It just came off. I think the spring is okay, but the way it was wound on, I think that side is messed up. It's a blower right here. We could probably use that, honestly, because it's pretty strong blower. That's an old guitar, look at it. You want it? Yeah. Yeah, sure. It doesn't crack. Look at your mom's pictures of stuff. I haven't run across anything like that yet. Stranger gondas. Are you string it, right? The old Esteban. That's probably coming handy because it's getting warm. Yeah, it's a high velocity blower. Nice. See any pictures or anything? Where's the photo albums and stuff? Somewhere. Yeah, probably in her room. I just couldn't get all the way to the back. Yeah. I don't want this to be a long artist process. No, I get you. This is like mentally taxing for you, I get it. Yeah. Did you want to look at any of these drawers? Yeah, probably. I don't know if there's any. There's probably not much of anything to them, but I guess I'll just make up and stuff like that. That's exactly where it is. Yeah, that's stuff I don't need. Jimi Hendrix. It's Pepsi glass. Yeah, keep that. Random stuff. Looks old. Yeah. Jimi Hendrix. Keep that. I just noticed that. It's the other one. It's two of them. Yeah, they're in plastic, so. Yeah, yeah. There's some stuff right there. They're probably, you can put it on too. Yeah, found the pad. There's the pad. Hi. Look at that. You guys here, though? Oh, but it's probably the refrigerator. No, it's not like a kitten. There's one cat mail and one cat email. Oh, this is good. Yeah, there's this, like, LMR or something. What's it looking big more? Your heavy lifting? Money. Hold on. More money. Think that's still okay? Some of them have, like, been exploded. Yeah, that's something we wanted. You can put it in the donate pile. All right. You finding more valuables? Yeah, I think we're going to take some of these collectible items here. Can we still put most of the stuff in here for you? Yeah, like those candle holders. Put the stuff up here? I'll probably take the Yukero dog, yeah. Okay. Sucking the cane. What was behind the hourglass? What is that? Are they just, like, marbles? Rocks. We could probably take that down. I really just put that up so the cats can get up, can get out of there when they fucking get out there. And that was old damage. From before we had to move the food on. 1952. That was the same as that. That was magazine? Yeah. It was on the cover of it. Queen Elizabeth. I'm going to pick that up as she's in the headline today. Yeah. For what? For her husband passed away. Oh, yeah. Put it on. It was a huge giant square. Your dad was? Yeah. Is that an iron in that guy? Yes, ma'am. All right. Giddy up. Helps you want? Give me a second. Sure. Like it was a margarita if it was in that cup right now. Right? Yeah. Just envisioning that was a picture. Yeah. Very margarita now. Oh, my name. Do you mind if I just call in the cops? Oh, Jesus. Hey. Yay. Hey, everyone. My name is Eric. General Manager of Spalding Decon of Tampa. Welcome back. Today we're here at another house that we have purchased here. We've dubbed it Bush Gardens, considering you can see the roller coaster right in the background, or as I say, the roller coaster platform. So welcome to Bush Gardens. This is another hoarding house that we're actually getting ready to start to clean out. Stay tuned for more updates. We're getting ready to make entry and stay live. We'll show you some more progress as we go throughout the day. This is a house that Spalding Decon has purchased. Unfortunately, the family didn't want any of the effects or didn't want to go through the hoarding cleanup process. They decided they want to just move on from the job itself. And we've bought this house and we'll go through the flipping process, get it cleaned up, and ready for resale or renting. Hello, ladies. Hi. Hi. Go ahead and introduce yourselves and your location and kind of talk about your training process so far, how you're feeling about it. So I'm Stephanie Sanders. I am the franchise owner of Ben Salem PA. And this is... I'm Ebony Gray. I'll be her PMR person and Ben Salem. And we... So far, the training process is going very well. We're excited to be here at our first job and actually getting some hands-on experience today. Yes, it's going down today. The training's been great and now we're getting some in-person training. And we're going to get ourselves ready to take this on. Awesome. Have you guys ever seen anything like this before? Do you know what you're about to get into? This is going to be a shock to the system. This is going to be our first hoard. Our second hoard but we're going to be moving stuff around today. And there might be some shocking things. Awesome. Are you excited? Yes. We're looking forward to something shocking and exciting. Hopefully you'll catch it on film. Awesome. Yeah, I hope so, too. All right, guys. We'll see you in there. See you in there. What a dead big boy. See him. Thank you. You can say hi to your wife from YouTube. Yeah. Hi, babe. Love in Florida. Very smooth. I'm going to put it out there. My name is Jared Jones. I'm from Fairfield, California. And I hope to open my franchise as soon as possible. Awesome. How are you lesson training so far? Very informative. It's nice to have hands-on experience by the time I open my doors. Have you ever seen anything like this before? On TV, not in person. Yeah? Yeah. Is it intimidating or you don't mind getting your hands through? No, I have a construction background. So, I've been in some pretty gross environments. Not typically like this, but I have pretty questionable situations. This is different, but it's kind of along the same time. I'm excited to have you. This is for the family. Well, thank you. Thank you, guys, for coming out. So, you know, I don't have him on the off-the-pod, but the trinkets and the styrofoam, those can go in the pod. Okay. The rest of that's the TV and the entertainment center can all go. Okay. The picture frames and the table. If he wants to hold on to those, we're going to put those in the pod. Everything else can go. Table, table can go. Okay. Just a picture frame. Everything else can go. Okay. What we'll do, I'll just tell everyone to kind of keep their best judgment. Also, I know specifically what you want now. This room, as we go through the back rooms, like you said, if there's picture frames, things that look like it's like a family heirloom or keepsake, even if we're not sure, I'll just have them put it in the pod. And that way you can go through it later. But obviously, if the rest of it's been either contaminated or it has cat stuff on it, we'll just remove it. But it looks like it's in good shape and possible family or regardless of what's in the pod for you. That way it's, we'd rather be safe than sorry. Okay. You okay with that? Yeah. Awesome. I've noticed it seems like we have bigger bugs down here in Florida, but you guys have bigger, like, rodents. Yeah. Rat, like, Philadelphia rafter. Freakin' monstrous. Yeah, you know, New York is where it's really at. That's what I've heard. Yeah, y'all definitely beat us in the talk room. Talk like you are. Good boy in there. There you are. I noticed this crowbar. No fear, no turning back. Gonna jump right out at ya. Gotta do some worship with some water. My parents say that. That's what my grandpa says. Yeah, worship and idear. Yeah. But also in my region, we also say yin. That's what I'm doing. What's yin's doing? It's yellow. Y-I-M-G. And we're also really part of the country that puts French rice on our salad. Hey, salad. You're Ohio? Is that where you're from? Well, I'm Ohio, but I say Pittsburgh because no one can figure it out on the map. Oh, it's right next to Pittsburgh? Yeah. Not bad at all? No. Not bad at all? No. I think the freezer has stuff in it. Oh. But we're on? It should be frozen. Yeah. How'd our first whore to go? Honestly, you guys are pretty tough. Oh, okay. We all scream for bug screams. All right, coming soon. Ben Salem, PA. And Fairfield, California. Again, it's Eric from the Spalding Deacon Tampa office. We've been here today. We've had two trainings going on. We've had been lucky enough to have the franchise owners from outside of Philadelphia and outside of San Francisco come join us to be a big part on our initial whore. We had here at one of the properties. Help me out here, Evan. The Busch Gardens House? Yeah. We have Busch Gardens right in the backyard. We wanted to come and have them experience what it would be like, the labor that's involved. That way they can start building out their estimates, get an idea on what it included. Dump fees, labor costs. So it was a good hands-on experience with the house that had the materials, obviously, that needed to be removed. We've completed our first whore for the day. We're wrapping things up here today. We're bringing in a couple more 30-yard dumpsters. This house will probably take right around four to five 30-yarders. There's that much content within the garage and the remaining parts of the house. So there's probably a total four to five days worth of work here. This is a house that we did purchase. So this will be a house that we clean and we'll either sell it or we'll turn it into an occupied house under our umbrella. Pretty much what we got for today. We'll keep in touch soon. Awesome. Real quick, I missed what was happening with the window at the beginning. Absolutely. So we were trying to gain access into the property. It was a new acquisition of ours. We hadn't had the doors keyed yet, so we actually utilized the cat window. We was actually able to ship it in the window. I got the window unbolted and was able to gain access to the house. Awesome. Thanks, man. Yes, sir.