Victims of Foreclosures are Likely to Leave Properties Behind
RealtyTrac has reported that approximately 300,000 notices about different types of foreclosures have been served in the month of August alone. The report also said that some hundreds of the thousand notices might have already been sent after that month.
The figures stated in the report are really alarming for most real estate companies. But in the case of WSR Preservation, the numbers just mean more business.
WSR Preservation is owned by John Plocher. This California-based company by Plocher is mainly concerned with property maintenance. As a matter of fact, WSR Preservation specializes in the cleaning and maintenance of foreclosed homes.
One of the company’s main jobs is to gather the properties left behind by the families who have occupied the foreclosure homes. The experiences he gained from his company taught him the literal meaning of ‘expect the unexpected’
Plocher said that at first, he was surprised to find that families tend to leave behind valuable personal properties in their foreclosed homes. He cited a particular case where a family has left an urn of cremated remains inside their house. Plocher also said that, generally, people leave a lot of things in their former homes.
Although homeowners were aware that they are soon facing foreclosure problems, Plocher noted that they seem to have left their foreclosed properties in a hurry. At one time, his team arrived in a house that has a refrigerator filled with food. Plocher attributed this to the possible sadness or maybe depression that the homeowners are likely to have experienced.
Arik Jensen, one of WSR’s employees, also shares the same observation with his boss. He said that he sometimes finds a doll lying on the floor. Such occasions makes him think of the little owner of the doll who might probably crying for its lost.
WSR maintained that properties they have gathered are sent to the dumpsters. In some cases, valuable ones are requisitioned by the bank that owned the foreclosures.
