techbelle

this reminds me of a tenant house my parents had. during their lease, we got a call from animal control reporting that 'droves' of rats were living in the house. it was a nice (but small) little place, so it seemed curious. we drove over and before even leaving the vehicle, the smell of refuse, rot, and crap hit our noses. the house itself looked fine, but as we approached, i was awed (as a 10 year old, i will never forget it) the bugs marching TOWARD the house... there was a literal line of ants. the smell was overwhelming. we entered the house and it looked run down and filthy but not, you know, terrible. upon further investigation we discovered that the family who lived there (who were immigrants, actually) had been putting all of their trash in the storage place under the house. so... the crawl space was full of maggots, rats, roaches, old food, diapers... there was mold growing everywhere... I sort of thought we should just burn the place down, but after we evicted them, we paid professionals to clean up. disgusting.