What they leave behind

Thursday, 12:51 pm

Oct

02

2008

I’ve seen this video on a few different web sites over the last week. It’s about what happens to a jingle mail/foreclosed home after the bank takes it over. At least in Southern California. People leave everything behind and it must be removed and disposed of. After watching the video, I wonder how the people doing this manage to hang on to their sanity. It has to be a difficult and depressing job.

And not the least of the horrors is that all that stuff, multiplied by many houses per day, is going straight into the landfill. I suppose it would be a logistical nightmare to disperse all the household items in a more sensible way (say...a one day house sale with proceeds going to the foreclosure bank or something), but sending everything to the dump is really horrible.

As the video points out, the people who walk away from their homes must be in a terrible state of mind to leave behind the personal effects that the trash out guys find. It puts a very human face on it. For me, at least.