How would you go about cleaning this poor creatures house? Just

>>1167562
Patience and work can do wonders

>>1167562
My house was never filled with bugs and rotten food, but ive lived in really dirty trashy conditions before.
It just starts to pile up and before you know it you are living in shit.

I would just start slow and do a little bit of work each day, eventually it will all get fixed and cleaned to an acceptable level.
Its not like nuclear levels of cleanup will change your ways. But slowly working at it does

A group of 4 or 5 guys at the least, perhaps from a 'crime scene cleanup' company or sewer disaster company, basically some strong guys who give no shits about bugs and rot and stench. Maybe just a few pros and a big handful of volunteers from the community, kids on probation, etc.

Roll-off dumpster, as close as possible to the house.

Escort filth-guy around for a half-hour to pull out important stuff, get some general guidelines (don't throw out box full of pictures, etc).

Get the guys to work, toss everything. old fridge, minifridge, fridge from the street, kitchen table, pots, pans, couch, chair, bed, clothes, pull up carpet. Pull out any fixtures that are obviously beyond repair (old cabinet that is crumbling or sink that is rotting out of the wall)

Bare floors, walls.

Come back through and give things a full decontamination bleach wash. Repair plumbing, check power, etc and then repaint after a tsp wash. Replace carpet last, put in solid floor surface if possible.

"new" furnishings, thrift store scores mostly. Set filth-anon up with some talk therapy sessions, maybe meds for what is probably a continuing anxiety problem.

Assuming small house it would not be a huge ordeal, just unpleasant. Several people with minimal shits being given and snow-shovels/wheelbarrows can turn a solid garbage room into an empty room much faster than "cleaning". Assuming you can get some volunteers the biggest cost would probably be the plumbing labor, specialized cleanup labor and replacement fixtures (fridge, bed, etc) as distant third.

>>1167581
see also the "Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe" episode where he is working with a post-Katrina house cleanup crew. Start with a whole house full of moldering trash, end up with rebuildable shell with the effort of a half-dozen/dozen guys with shovels, hammers and wheelbarrows. Filth anon's home would arguably require much less work than one that had soaked in flood juice.

>>1167562
I've looked at forclosures where the leaving people were pissed beyond belief and wrecked the place. Once at condemned house, the realtor had to chase out vagrants a few hours before showing it. None of them were as bad as that picture. None.

A dumpster and am economy sized serving of TSP would do wonders.... but every scrap of carpet and curtain would need to go, lenolium replaced, hard wood refinished, and probably a few dozen square feet worth of drywall patches replaced.

It's still cheaper than bulldozing & building, but I wouldn't be the one to want to do that.

>>1168183
This.

I own a property management firm that I built from the ground up. My first dozen houses were bought pretty much in the condition in OP's picture. If you're willing to put in that first nasty couple of days of cleaning you can make a pretty tidy profit off properties like that.

The second house I ever bought was absolutely horrid. I got it from the city for $1,300 in back taxes owed.

It was so bad I just knocked out the living room window, and shoveled shit from the living room directly outside into the trash bins. BINS. It took 9 loads to empty the house of decades old newspaper, adult diapers, cat and dog corpses, and what may or may not have been a premature mumified fetus in a converse shoe box.

>county tax auction
>"item number blah blah, real property located at blah blah blah and Elmhurst."
>auctioneer sighs
>"its bad folks... bidding will start at owed taxes of 1300"
>raise hand
>"i have thirteen, going once twice sold."
>call bin company to drop off a bin.
>driver pulls up just as the wall is coming down.
>drops it
>tell him "go get another one, we'll have this full by the time you get back"
>"do I even wanna know how bad it is?"
>motion towards the front door
>he comes out shaking his head
>holds out a lighter
>both laugh
>"alright, be back in an hour"

>>1167562
I've turned a house that wasn't quite that bad, but some rooms were close. Assuming the structure is solid, it just takes time and effort. Even soaked-in animal urine can eventually be treated if you use the right product enough times in the right way.

If you've ever had to clean a house after sanding a floor, you know the drill. Just clean every single square inch. Be methodical and it'll get done quicker than you figure.

>>1168194
I did a garage like that once. I swear it was an archaeological dig... I could have studied rat evolution overt the past half-century by lining up the mummified bodies.

>>1167562
I've never understood how any self respecting person could possibly live like this.

>>1168216
you hit right on the key words there.
Broken people live in these situations, a self-increasing lead weight that helps keep them hammered down and burdened by their mix of depression, anxiety and a whole load of shit.

>>1168194
How did you get started with it, if you don't mind me asking. What sort of capital/equipment did you start off with? Any tips for someone who wants to start his own business?