Clean-up begins

The house is adorable and in pretty good shape for a 1930s bungalow, and the property is laid out absolutely perfectly.  

HOWEVER,…

The tenant who occupied the house before us was less than an avid housekeeper—and that’s putting it kindly.  I hadn’t seen anything like this since college.  Remember the apartments and houses shared by groups of guys where there was always a pile of dirty dishes in the sink, dirty laundry on the bathroom counter and trash piled in the corner?  This was that.  Wow.

My daughters never went into the house when it was in its state of bachelor filth, but they saw the pictures.  I cautioned them both that if they ever encountered an apartment or house like that in their dating futures to RUN AWAY.  Extend a kind thank you for the date, and then move on.

In addition to the filthy interior, it appeared that there had been years of neglectful tenants who thought the back pasture that is so ideally laid out for the keeping of livestock was better suited to throw ALL of their waste—car batteries, dirty diapers, broken swing sets, old shingles, cracked toilets and even a tub of dishwasher detergent.  Perhaps that dishwasher detergent would have done well to be used indoors instead.  

Aside from the random waste in the back pasture, overgrowth abounds. My father-in-law couldn’t wait for me to take pictures before he got back there to start shredding some of the overgrowth; just know that it was dense.  There remains after the shredding about 50-80 or maybe more baby pecan trees in the southeast corner—offspring from the gigantic pecan that must be 300+ years old—as well as a few other trees, two animal pens including the makings of what will be a quaint horse barn, AND...

... the trailer of an 18-wheeler. Minus the wheels.  And it’s full of someone else’s junk.  And rat poop.  So, I’m thinking there are probably rats as well.  

We have contacted the previous owner regarding said rat-filled trailer and its contents.  Here’s hoping he says he’ll be right over to clean it out and haul it off.