It’s one of those things out of a horror novel.
A family comes home to find it full of individuals completely ransacking the property. However in this case, it was something a bit different.
It was a “Property preservation” company, tasked with removing trash from her supposedly foreclosed home. Instead what is going to happen will be a massive lawsuit and all sorts of dirt uncovered due to the obscene neglect shown by the company as the homeowner was not in foreclosure.
“This is what we came home too Thursday. 5 people were going through our house and loading everything valuable they could find. They cut the cords on all the appliances for the copper under the plastic. Yes they were still there when the sheriff was called and I’m now in the mist of filing criminal trespassing, breaking an entering, vandalism. They broke the bed frames and lamps. Everything was tossed in the floor looking for hidden valuables. This was a “preservation company” called Laudan properties who gave the work orders for a property “clean out” THEY WERE OBVIOUSLY MISINFORMED ABOUT THE HOUSE BEING IN FORECLOSURE. But they refused to unload our things until the sheriff came and made them. . Completely crazy. It’s gonna be a long road but we are definitely pressing charges and suing.”
Why would they cut cords? “This is pure speculation but the appliances with cut cords in the photos are low-value items like coffee makers, fans and DVD players. Sure, you could sell them, but first you have to store them, catalog them, figure out what price to ask for each item, etc. If they do multiple properties a week these appliances could add up quick. It’s probably quicker & easier to bring two piles of junk to the scrap yard, one pile of copper cords and one pile of cord-less appliances and just cash them in for the scrap value. Quicker & easier than dealing with each item individually, and I’m sure they make their money from quantity, not quality. She said they wouldn’t unload their truck until the sheriff arrived, so I’m assuming they were taking some of the high-value items like flat-screen TVs, etc. They probably left the cords on those.”
This all occurred in a small village in Ohio, provided by Reddit user karmicviolence, a photographer from Pataskala