big windows to let in the sun
an officer once told me how cleanup companies scrub crime scenes before nasty homes are put on the market, removing all (visible) evidence of homicides, meth labs, and other messy illegality. even in times of real estate crisis and hi-def hgtv, however, realtors don't always show homes at their very best. the two photos below come from lovelylisting.com, with links to the actual listings advertising the homes for sale.
moorpark, california -- 4 beds, 3 baths, $449,900, extremely motivated seller.
st. paul, minnesota -- 3 beds, 2.0 baths @ 153,000.
nice. you couldn't spend fifteen bucks for a gallon of white latex and a can o' kilz?
understanding that folks actually lived in these houses, these are some of the saddest pictures i've seen. one can either laugh at the realtors or cry for the owners. call me a homer, but i'm hearing paul's here comes a regular and grant's 2541 -- cuz these houses have nothing to do with the "our house" of csny or madness.
posted by christopher uggen @ 12:47 AM
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Crime scene clean-up -- soon to be a major motion picture. Sunshine Cleaning (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0862846/) showed in Sundance last year and got tepid reviews. I saw the trailer last weekend. That was enough for me.
And we were weirded out by the nasty jar of salsa that some homeowner had left out while we toured a house a couple of years ago.
We're into season five of The Wire, and I'm reading "Homicide," so crime scenes have been on the brain a lot lately. But I didn't think about someone having to clean them up after the fact. Yeesh.
thanks for the tip, jay -- i hadn't heard about this one.
dave, these images are haunting, aren't they? back in a *previous* recession, i spent a lot of time scrounging car parts from salvage yards. some of those smells and images -- from bad wrecks and/or in-car suicides -- are still roiling around my brain.
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