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Section. its very exhausting and very stressful. >> to an outsider, the solution seems easy, clean it up. but with a hoarder, its just not that simple. >> you dont move stuff. she would be very hurt, first of all, shed be angry, shed be hurt at the disrespect to her and her things. shed be ashamed. it would be kind of like her worst fears coming true right then and there. it would just make the problem worse because it would make her more defensive of everything else. and would make her fight ha...

Bottom floor. >> in the basement, busted water pipes create a stagnant pool of sludge. >> they had no heat. and as a result the pipes broke. >> we were wearing boots above the knees to get through that stuff because the paper and all the stuff, the clothing and things are absolutely disgusting. >> for 13 days, the team digs their way through the rotting garbage. hardened candle wax and stack of debris. in total, the crew fills five 20-foot-long dumpsters. >> i didnt think it was ever, ever going...

In foreclosure in a remote lakefront community. >> its a bunch of old cottages that get converted into homes. kind of in the middle of nowhere. >> not much is known about the previous owner. but for schaeffer the price is right even though the house appears to be in shambles. >> ive seen people save things and collect things. but i think in this case, the individual was cleaning the neighborhood, so to speak. >> armed with a video camera to document the scene, schaeffer visits his new property w...

Pretty much linens, blankets, stuff like that. >> it was kind of like hilly. you had to climb over it. >> theres the other bedrooms. >> when you looked at the doorway, the stop of the doorway was where you would smash your face on it. debris was three feet from the top of the doorway, which is roughly 4 1/2 feet deep. other areas it was higher. basically got stacked. couldnt see out of the windows. some of the places it was stacked to the cleaning. >> it was clean clothes. she would clean them a...

We can depend upon her. not, oh, my god. you know, have you seen -- oh, my god. >> jessicas mother says her hoarding tendencies can be tracked back to her college years but it isnt until the sudden death of her husband in 2001 that a tendency become a compulsion. >> went way over the edge. you do the grief counseling, you do all the things you think you should. sometimes it doesnt happen. what i found was i would go to work and come home and just want to cocoon myself. i just didnt want to deal ...

>>y shut the door and locked it. im sure if you opened it up, it would all fall out. >> looked like stuff youd find digging through the garbage. >> there was a note in there saying in is my stuff. do not take it. its not garbage. this is my stuff. >> with the camera still rolling the group moves into the neglected home to assess the damage. >> different places in the house had different things. when you initially walked into the house, it was a breezeway between the garage and the actual main ho...

And taking them apart. >> just like everything. lunch containers, soda bottles, you name it. everything you can buy at the grocery store, you bring it home and it was all there. >> a lot of paperwork. people have a huge problem with what to do with paper. >> the crew begins carefully sifting through the debris room by room. >> we dont take the snow shovels and just haul the stuff into a trash can. we actually go through everything. were going through those papers looking for stocks and bonds and...

Middle. i dont even know what that stuff was, but it was added on to. this room has become a catch-all. and its just stuff that doesnt have a home, that she cant figure out what she wants to do with comes here. and its like a tomb enshrining the hoard. it just sits here. a lot of the boxes she moved from other places in here. shell take stuff out and shell put stuff back in. >> and among the stuff, 11 cats have free rein of the house. >> theyre fuzzy pets, they leave hair, and they scratch on th...

Something like that in that mess. >> im 53" and it must have come up to my shoulder. a lot of times you see a path and there was no path. you didnt just walk in, you climbed in. it was an amazing amount of trash. >> because of the amount of debris, the living conditions are extremely dangerous. >> she was clearly in danger of having fire in that building. because when you live in a place like that, you have that kind of paper and you have all these extension cords underneath this stuff, one spar...

And the bedrooms, same thing. pretty much linens, blankets, stuff like that. >> it was kind of like hilly. you had to climb over it. >> theres the other bedrooms. >> when you looked at the doorway, the stop of the doorway was where you would smash your face on it. debris was three feet from the top of the doorway, which is roughly 4 1/2 feet deep. other areas it was higher. basically got stacked. couldnt see out of the windows. some of the places it was stacked to the cleaning. >> it was clean c...