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Foreclosure Clean Out Nightmares

If you’re an investor or a potential homeowner considering a foreclosed home, you might get a great deal, but there are inherent and often hidden risks. Here at Advanced Bio Treatment, we’ve seen it all and we’ve cleaned it all. We want to make you aware of these risks so that you can head them off at the pass and leave the foreclosure clean out to experts in the foreclosure cleaning business. Simply put, a foreclosure is a home on which the owner could no longer make the payments and which the owner could not sell; therefore, the bank that holds the mortgage confiscates the home in order to try to recover its investment.

Why are foreclosed homes a high risk?

Poor Maintenance: First, homeowners who can’t make the mortgage payments also lack the funds and the impetus to maintain the home. Therefore, the home is usually poorly maintained for a long time before the foreclosure clean out happens. Banks generally don’t seize property until six or eight payments have been missed. That’s at least six or eight months of declining or non-existent maintenance of the home. Then the home often sits deteriorating even further over a long period of time during which it is unoccupied and not maintained by the bank. Banks sell homes. They do not maintain them. Some of these homes sit unoccupied and unmaintained for a year or more.

We were hired by an investor in Jacksonville, Florida, who purchased a foreclosed home, but it took over 90 days to close on the home. The new owner was unaware that the roof had a small leak, which became quite a significant—and unnoticed—leak over those 90 days during which the house remained vacant. By the time we were able to get in the home and do the foreclosure clean out, the leak had destroyed the ceiling in the master bedroom and bathroom, and the new owner now had a mold problem to deal with.

Unhappy Occupants: Second, when a property has been foreclosed, chances are the occupants left in a hurry and may even have been evicted by law enforcement. The occupants leave garbage, furniture, and personal belongings, all of which must be removed, and often the home itself is filthy. After removal of personal property and garbage, which may present a serious bio hazard, the home must be sanitized.

It is not uncommon for owners and tenants to be angry at being forced out of the home. At countless foreclosure clean out jobs, we have seen huge punch holes in walls, which required major sheet-rock repair and replacement, nasty and vulgar messages scrawled all over walls, human and animal feces and urine all over floors and carpets, and insect and rodent infestation. At one foreclosure clean out in Florida for which Advanced Bio Treatment was recently hired, the occupants had poured cement into the toilets, which destroyed the plumbing. They also allowed their children to paint and draw all over the home’s exterior siding. The occupants had dragged heavy furniture across the wood floors, which were in such bad condition that they had to be replaced. The occupants had not maintained the yard, which was infested with rodents and snakes because the grass and weeds were so overgrown.

Occupants of foreclosed homes often steal things that they can turn around and sell. We have seen homes stripped of fixtures and kitchen appliances. We did a foreclosure clean out in Atlanta, Georgia, where the occupants and ripped out copper pipes and torn out the kitchen cabinets and granite counter tops.

Vandalism: Foreclosed homes stand vacant and often unmaintained for long periods of time, they are targets for vandalism and squatting, which creates the same damage, filth, and biohazards as do angry occupants.

The primary issues we in the foreclosure cleaning business commonly see in foreclosed homes are:

  1. Biohazardous filth.
  2. Huge trash and debris clean up.
  3. Damage to the structure that ranges from not-so-bad to catastrophic.

Leave the Foreclosure Clean Out Services to the Foreclosure Clean Out Experts

Don’t let a good deal slip away from you because the foreclosure cleanup looks overwhelming. Advanced Bio Treatment has been in the foreclosure cleaning business for over 10 years and our technicians are experts in foreclosure clean out. Let our trained technicians professionally assess the damage for you and fully restore the foreclosed home. We will thoroughly clean, sanitize, and disinfect the premises and remove all biohazardous material according to OSHA, EPA, and state guidelines. As well as, clean and remove all other trash, personal belongings, and debris. We are Advanced Bio Treatment. We are here for you 24 hours every day of the year, and we take emergency calls and work with your insurance company. Should you need our services, please call us at 800-295-1684.

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Ted Pelot Owner & President of Crime Scene Cleanup Company - Advanced Bio-Treatment