Have you ever watched those shows about hoarders who never throw away anything, including empty food wrappers and broken appliances? There have been a number of TV shows showing these filthy homes that are filled with mountains of trash and dirty things.
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One house owner in Penang, Malaysia heard about those people but could not imagine they were actually real. After all, who would want to live in such a dirty house, anyway?
Photo credit: Hang Dhamin / Facebook
Photo credit: Hang Dhamin / Facebook
But he got the shock of his life after evicting a tenant who didn’t pay the rent, only to find his home had been filled with a mountain of trash!
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A famous traveler from the area, Hang Dhamin, shared photos of the dirty, trashed-filled home that was actually owned by his friend. According to Hang, his friend rented the house to a tenant who would later miss so many payments that the owner decided to simply make him leave.
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But the tenant refused to give the owner the keys; thus, Hang’s friend had to seek help from the police to make the man and his family hand over the keys so he could retrieve his home and rent it out to another family.
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Once the owner got the keys, however, they had difficulty opening the home – not because the key didn’t work but because the door was nearly shut tight by the mountain of trash inside!
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It was so dirty that the rooms were filled from floor to ceiling with so many stuff. The tenant refused to help in cleaning up the place, leaving the owner and his friends scratching their heads at how someone could even live in all this dirt!
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They spent days cleaning up the place, but it still looked so dirty and similar to a dump site. Inside all that pile of trash, Hang and his friends even found a cat and some newborn kittens!
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Hang hopes to find help from netizens so his friend could make his house look fit to be a rental property again.
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What is a Hoarder?
A hoarder is a person who hoards things – meaning this person likes to collect things, but in a negative way. While a collector keeps the collection nice and beautiful, hoarders just dump everything in piles inside their home, without bothering to make the place look good.
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It is not uncommon for hoarders to ‘disappear’, only for family to find them trapped under the mountains of trash inside their home.