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The House of Horrors

Early October of 2016 Junk Munkiez had its biggest and dirtiest job still to date. We received a call from a lady in Washington asking us what we did exactly and what our prices were. By the sound of her voice you could tell she was in a stressful situation. A tenant they had rented their property to became a drug addict, collecting enormous amounts of trash and junk that he apparently though was useful stuff.

It wasn't! To make matters worse he was a messy hunter, having a poached bear hide hanging in a shed that was leaking rain water, preventing the hide from ever drying. 

When the tenant stopped paying, the lady and her family had the man evicted but that didn’t stop him from returning. He’d continue living there by breaking into the property which was easy to do considering how far away the family was and the fact the house was far out from the city. 

They eventually found out, turned off the power to the house and had a restraining order filed against him while also having a family friend check on the property occasionally. The friend once found him sleeping underneath the house in the crawl space with his sleeping bag. Eventually the law caught up to him and he went to jail but that didn’t fix the catastrophe he left behind. A few days after talking on the phone we showed up to the property and were flabbergasted. We thought it would be messy but had NO IDEA it would be that BAD! Piles upon piles of trash were laying throughout the property. What made the situation worse too is that bears rummaged through the mess throwing trash and bits of decaying food everywhere. You could actually see many teeth and claw marks on a lot of the old food cartridges. 

We knew this was going to be a huge clean up for us but the fun was only beginning! One of the family members took us to the shed where the decomposing hide was still hanging up and showed us the dreaded deep freezer! 

The power had been shut off about three months before we got there so you can imagine what can take place inside a large deep freezer full of food. A brief opening of the freezer released a hoard of flies and the most nauseous fumes we had ever smelled! We felt we should deal with this first. Once getting it out we realized it was to heavy to pick up so we knew we needed to dump it and that’s when the true test of character really began! Opening revealed all of its yummy surprises. Rotting TV dinners, dinner rolls, blueberry’s, egg’s, fish, and a dear carcass he had hunted. This had all began liquefying itself. 

We drained six to seven gallons of putrid black sludge. The deer was in a black trash bag, it had turned into pinkish mush! It was hard not to puke while draining the freezer but the mission was accomplished. We got it into our truck and moved onto the other debris that was scattered throughout the back patio and front yard. This was only a fraction of the all the junk that was scattered throughout the 5+ acres. They felt we had done enough and decided to call it good but about a month later they hired us again to help with the rest of the garbage scattered throughout the property. After everything was said and done, we had hauled off several thousand pounds and had moved tens of thousands of pounds of wood debris to a burn pit. This job tested our character, many junk removal services would have declined this once seeing what they were getting into but we stuck with it. We greatly helped this family out of this horrible situation. They were even able to sale the property! If you have have a job like this in Eugene, Oregon or the surrounding area give us a call! We can help! (541)337-0619 

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