May 18, 2004

To let -- cheap Anyone looking for housing, there's a flat available somewhere in the US. Pictures available.
posted by Skrik 20 years ago
  • Holy crap! That's just plain uber-nasty. The feathers and mud in the fridge was the crowning touch, IMHO.
  • It pains me to say I've seen worse.
  • oh god, bearguy, really? do tell. and please tell me it wasn't YOUR place! that site convinces me that my sweetie's apartment wasn't that bad. even though it did take me two days to clean his oven, which he hadn't done in nine years.
  • Sweet, merciful crap! Those photos look like production stills from one of the sets of Se7en. I'm going to mail this link to my wife, so she can file it in her favorites list under "There But For the Grace of God."
  • bleee-augh!
  • what? none of you ever mud-wrestle your chickens to death before popping them into cold storage? and clearly you're all missing out on the newest in sleep technology, the Serta DumpsterDiver, with patented GarbagePile springs. seriously, let me be the first to say EEEEEEEW. that's f'n gross. i think i would have moved just due to the smell. i've moved for lesser reasons before, i think the stink would have driven me out pretty darn quickly.
  • Frogs, I bet there's a dissertation waiting in that refrigerator.
  • How sad. I bet that guy is mentally ill and I hope he moved because he was finally getting help.
  • I wonder if he got his deposit back....
  • That fridge -- Ew!
  • Well, I will say that I was the brave-but-unlucky soul that donned a makeshift hazmat suit to clean one particular edifice, and that the bedroom was also where they saw a man about a horse. A veritable stampede. If I had any doubts about biohazard protocols, they disappeared...much like that room's occupants. [Gets up to find air sickness bag]
  • Oh my!
  • My best friend (and her partner) back home just moved out of their nice, newly-built condo into a bungalow in the Chicago suburb of Berwyn. The previous owners had clearly gone round the bend between the time the offer was made and taking occupancy because they walked into something they described as looking like this place. The topper was when they found dirty diapers decomposing in the backyard. Yummy.
  • that's just nasty. thank god he didn't have any pets either. i daresay they'd be quite neglected.
  • Pity the guy's neighbours didn't go and see him sooner about the mess and smell -- although they don't sound like they'd be sympathetic enough to help him out. He obviously needed some serious help, whether mental or hygienic. /ignorant righteousness
  • Sadly I too have seen my fare share of flats like these during my two year stay in England. One in particular stands out in my mind, it was occupied by two brothers and a sister and their two "spraying" tom cats. Windows did not open...heat on all the time...all smoked like chimneys...very similar state as illustrated in the photos. I think the thing that got me the most was the smell that hit you like a wall when standing at the bottom of the staircase.
  • Blargh! Makes me want to scrub everything I own with sandpaper and alcohol. Another cringe-worthy thread.
  • That is totally sad. "Some old guy" was prolly sick, head-wise and body too. Man.
  • Oh. My. God.
  • i once had a roommate like that, was an old friend of mine when he moved in. we stopped being friends when i found the kitchen sink clogged with cigarette butts and condoms. we stopped talking after i came home from a week out of town and found no less than six dozen beer bottles scattered about the apartment(or "flat" for you commonwealth types). in fact, i was still finding them months later, before that i didn't know beer could grow mold. we became bitter enemies when i found the remains of a rotiserie chicken rotting on the tp shelf of his bookcase. i can tolerate many things, maggots, onfortunately, are not among them.