Hoarders

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Linda / Steven Aug 18, 2009 Linda's husband could no longer stand the compulsive hoarding that filled the house they owned together. However, Linda must now sell her home as part of the settlement and it is sure to be an elaborate and anxiety-provoking process. Steven is at risk of eviction with a very poorly kept government-run housing. He may end up homeless again if he cannot clean up his house.

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Patty & Bill Aug 25, 2009 A Kansas woman's compulsive shopping habits have taken over the entire house. Her children were removed by authorities as a result of the living conditions. A Beverly, Massachusetts man's hoard of both home renovation supplies and outdated materials is so bad that his common-law wife broke her arm tripping over a pile of his things. After seeming unfazed over the accident, he is given an ultimatum to clean up or move out.

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Kerrylea & Lauren Sep 1, 2009 A Seattle, Washington couple are facing imminent foreclosure on two houses as a result of a decision to buy a second home to solve the wife's lifelong hoarding problem. A Charlottesville, Virginia woman's relationship with her boyfriend is in danger as a result of her hoard, which has taken over their entire townhouse.

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Tara & Betty Sep 8, 2009 Adult Protective Services removed an elderly Marysville, Ohio woman's sick alcoholic husband from their home because of the hazardous conditions. The family's financial problems are complicated by their schizophrenic daughter, who is also a hoarder. A Torrance, CA woman who is an obsessive collector faces eviction if she fails to clean up her home.

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Jennifer and Ron+Jill Sep 15, 2009 A couple in Louisville, Kentucky who both suffer from hoarding risk losing their children if they don't comply with numerous citations given to them by the city. A woman's food hoarding in Milwaukee, Wisconsin is so bad that she places herself at risk for food poisoning.

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Patty & Bill Sep 22, 2009 While the outside of Patty and David's home seems perfect, inside it is completely filled with unnecessary belongings. The hoarding is so severe that Patty's children have already been removed by child services. Bill's hoarding has haunted Lorelei for 25 years. Lorelei has even hurt herself tripping over Bill's piles of belongings. She threatens to leave him if he can't make the house livable

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Paul / Missy & Alex Sep 29, 2009 Paul was charged with criminal littering in 2008 and has failed to meet three court ordered deadlines to clean his yard. His 2 acre property is strewn with over 70 junk cars, thousands of pounds of scrap metal, and hundreds of old appliances. In January, a judge sentenced him to 5 days in jail and gave him a few months to clean his property, or face a fine and additional jail time. Just days before the deadline Paul must make a decision; allow the tow trucks and metal collectors to descend on his property and clear out his collection, or go to jail. Missy is a hoarder with a 7 year old son, Alex, who has begun to exhibit hoarding tendencies. On several occasions when she has tried to clean, her son has cried hysterically over things like a rusty chain and an old used cotton ball. Unless she can set an example, Alex will continue to follow her behavior and may never have a shot at a normal life. Now Missy must clean up her house in order to save her son.

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Augustine Dec 1, 2009 Her son, Jason, has already been removed from her home. Augustine was never able to actually have him return to the house. Augustine now lives without water, gas, heat, or appliances and the courts have become involved forcing her to clean up.

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Judi and Gail Dec 8, 2009 Time is running out for Judi, whose cluttered home has been condemned; Gail was once a disciplined ballerina, but now her house is full of possessions and critters.

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Chris and Dale Dec 15, 2009 After her newborn son dies, Chris tries to fill the void with possessions that jeopardize custody of her daughters; Dale is at risk of eviction from his city-subsidized apartment filled with found objects for art projects.

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Bob and Richard Dec 22, 2009 The parents of four children must clean out their entire house or risk losing everything; a retired veterinarian's dozens of costly collections have come at the expense of his marriage and lifestyle.

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Julie and Shannon Dec 29, 2009 A series of tragedies triggers hoarding that leads to a woman losing custody of her son to her ex-husband; Child Protective Services arrives with police at a couple's squalid home to remove their four children.

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Deborah and Jim Jan 5, 2010 Deborah is a 49 year old mother of two who fears that her hoarding may cause her two children to be taken away. Her husband Ron claims that Deborah's hoarding triggered his depression and alcoholism and Deborah claims that Ron's alcoholism fueled her hoarding. The situation went from bad to worse when Ron attempted suicide seven years ago. Now Deborah must either change or risk losing her family. Jim is living a double life. He manages a successful honey business as a bee keeper but at home he lives as a compulsive hoarder. His 37 year old daughter Heather has threatened to call Adult Protective Services on him if he doesn't change for the sake of himself and his eight month old granddaughter.

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Linda and Todd Jan 12, 2010 Linda's family has been torn apart by her hoarding. She wants a relationship with her grown children but they refuse to visit her because Linda's house is piled up with belongings. Despite Linda's threat to commit suicide her family has given her an ultimatum to either clean up or her husband Shelton will divorce her and her children will choose not to remain in touch her any longer.29 year old Todd has been collecting models, kits and several other hobby items ever since her was a kid. His girlfriend of five years Robyn wants to get married and to start a family but she has threatened to leave Todd if doesn't control his behaviors. Todd wants to create a life with her as well but he doesn't know where to begin.

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Adella / Teri Sep 7, 2010 Daughters help their mom in an effort to clean her home to keep it from being condemned; and a mother of two is threatened with divorce if she doesn't stop hoarding.

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Gordon & Gaye and Sir Patrick Sep 7, 2010 A hoarding couple is given 72 hours to vacate their house if it isn't cleaned; and a man collects goblets, dolls, fountains and artwork.

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Robin / Ken Sep 14, 2010 Robin's home is so full of garbage that people in the street can smell the stench. With the city condemning the property and threatening to tear it down at their expense, Robin and her father must clean up their house to save it.

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Carolyn and Jo Sep 14, 2010 Carolyn's daughter is so unhappy about the cluttered condition of the home that she has been leaving notes for her mother intimating that she is threatening suicide.

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Laura and Penny Sep 21, 2010 Laura has terminal cancer and is in fragile health, but sleeping or resting is nearly impossible. The only open spot she can lay her head on is two-thirds of the living room couch. It's a couch surrounded by plastic bins, toys, boxes, scrap-book and crafts supplies, rotting furniture, magazines, and a carpet stained by cat urine. Laura's hoarding has greatly strained her relationship with her husband and daughters. She knows this is her last chance to unburden her family and give them back a home free of her clutter and misery. Penny is a 44-year-old single mom of two. Her three-bedroom home is so hoarded that her toddler son has been forced to sleep with her on the living room couch. Her refrigerator doesn't work and there's a terrible smell in her older

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Vula and Lisa Sep 28, 2010 Vula is hoarding more than 30 sickly cats that have completely destroyed her home. Lisa, a 30-year-old fifth grade teacher, has already lost one job by bringing her hoard from home to the classroom.

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Kathleen / Margree Oct 5, 2010 A hoarding woman may lose her daughter; a groom never moved in to his wife's cluttered house.

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Phyllis and Janet Jun 21, 2011 Every room in Phyllis' house is packed with dolls. Her obsession has manifested itself into a floor to ceiling collection of bags stuffed with dolls, and a doll hospital in a spare bedroom where she "amputates" the limbs of one doll to make another complete. Now, her son is threatening to call Adult Protective Services if she doesn't get a handle on her compulsion. Janet's home is so hoarded that she has to crawl upon mountains of garbage to get to the one recliner where she eats and sleeps. She's had no running water and no heat for two years and routinely huddles under seven blankets to keep warm. Unable to watch her mother live in such horrid conditions, one of Janet's nine children is threatening to have her committed for her own good.

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Billy Bob and Jean Jun 28, 2011 Billy Bob's house is so filled with toys and games, puzzles, cars, dolls and stuffed animals that he can no longer maneuver through the paths. From the outside Jean's house blends perfectly with her upscale Beverly Hills neighbors. But inside, she and her husband are raising their 8-year-old granddaughter in a hoarded mess.

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Season #2 Follow Up: Augustine, Judi, Dennis & Nadene, Bob, Deborah Jul 3, 2011 In this special Hoarders follow-up episode we check in on the progress of Augustine, Deborah,...

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Season #2 Update Jul 5, 2011 In this one-hour special, Hoarders follow-up episode we check in on the progress of Augustine, Deborah, Dennis and Nadene, Bob and Judi from Season Two.

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Roy and Loretta Jul 12, 2011 Roy is facing $20 million in fines from the county for hoarding hundreds of vehicles on his property. A successful inventor, Roy is unable to part with what he considers materials for new inventions. If he doesn't remove all the vehicles and the hoard within them, the only way he will be able to pay this enormous fine is by selling off his land. Loretta and her husband were robbed at gunpoint and later had their home looted by thieves. They started over in a different neighborhood but the trauma and loss triggered Loretta's compulsion to hoard everything in their new home. With her second child due any day, Loretta must now clean up or face the involvement of CPS.

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Randy and Vicki Jul 19, 2011 Randy's boardwalk memorabilia collection fills a 20,000 square foot building and numerous tractor trailers. Room after room of pinball machines, signs, games, toys, tickets, and hundreds of mannequins modeled after Randy himself. He's spent millions on his fantasy world known as Randyland--but it's never been open to the public. Now he must figure out how to make money from his hoard or go broke and lose everything.Vicki's hoarding is breaking up her family. Not only is her husband ready to walk away from their marriage, but their 15-year-old son wants to move out as well. Although painfully depressed and withdrawn from the world, Vicki says she is ready to seek help in order to keep her family from breaking up.

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Ron and Carol Jul 26, 2011 Ron's home is filled from top to bottom with paper -- books, thousands of pages of sheet music, old newspapers, magazines and assorted trash. Rooms are packed full to the door jams and completely inaccessible and piles of papers surround the gas burning stove that he leaves lit to heat the house. Ron must clean his home now or quite possibly die in it. For the last six months Carol has been sleeping in a hoarded truck parked in front of her condemned hoarded house. Her deadlines with the city have come and gone multiple times and now she has been allotted one final week to get everything out.

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Norman and Linda Jan 3, 2012 Paramedics rushing to save a woman's life lose precious time when they're forced to climb over the hoard they find in Norman's house. Officials on the scene immediately call the Fire Chief and the Fire Marshall because the home presents a huge fire hazard to the neighborhood. Within an hour of being told his girlfriend is dead, the property is crawling with city officials and the house is condemned. Norman is given 30 days to clean up, or he could lose his house forever. Ever since Linda's husband died ten years ago, she has been adding to a hoard that has now spiraled out of control. Her two grown sons living with her do nothing about it either and each family member blames the other for not cleaning--causing a toxic three-way in the house. If Linda doesn't get help with the hoarding so she can recuperate and rehab from her future surgery, her sister is threatening to report her to the authorities and will have her own sister "shut-down."

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Barbara and Richard Jan 10, 2012 A mother with a family history of hoarding continues to hoard following the deaths of both of her sons. A former restaurant worker's life has gone downhill after he has surrounded himself with items bought while compulsively shopping at clearance sales.

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Mary and Annie Jan 17, 2012 A woman who hoards cats; a cleaning woman whose own home is cluttered, resulting in problems for her husband, who has Parkinson’s disease.

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Carrie and James Jan 24, 2012 Carrie lives in a house with no running water. Her floors are covered in feces and stacks of discarded urine bottles. James must clean up his property or face fines.

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Joanne and Kristy Jan 31, 2012 A daughter develops post-traumatic stress disorder because of her mom’s hoarding; a shopping addict loses custody of her son.

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Barbara, Fred and Mary Feb 7, 2012 A woman who lives in a million-dollar neighborhood sifts through trash bins; authorities warn a couple that they must clean their cobweb-infested, filthy home.

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Kathleen and Scott Feb 14, 2012 A woman's hoarding carries over into her daughter's home; a hoarder buys back some items he sells.

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Debra and Patty Sep 11, 2012 Debra has filled her house with an avalanche of clothes and run up a $50,000 credit card debt. Fed up, her husband and children are threatening to leave her to wallow in the hoard by herself. Meanwhile, Patty has stuffed her house with so many floor-to-ceiling cardboard boxes that she's had to move to her son's apartment. But now she's filling up that place too, and the situation has already forced her son's partner to say, "Keep the heap - I'm leaving!"

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Doug and Ruth Sep 18, 2012 A man who suffered brain trauma and amnesia in an accident keeps items that might trigger his memories; a woman refuses to part with things that had belonged to three dead relatives.

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Charles & Alvin Oct 2, 2012 An artist is surrounded by thousands of his paintings of naked women; a man's hoarding is so out of control that he's had to put his TV and food cooler in the bathroom.

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Shanna & Lynda Oct 9, 2012 A woman who collects bottles of human waste; another woman who hoards items in preparation for the end of the world.

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Joni & Millie Oct 16, 2012 Joni's hoarding drove her two sons to turn to drugs to cope, and it forced Child Protective Services to take her granddaughter away from her. She has one last chance to stop the vicious cycle of loss she has inflicted on her family. Millie has agreed to more than one clean-up, only to relapse and start hoarding again. Now her daughter, Chelsea, has given Millie one last ultimatum - "Clean up or lose me forever.

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Manuel & Carla Oct 23, 2012 Manual was living in his hoarded house with his four children, ages 5, 6, 7, and 9. They are the love of his life, but they were removed by Child Protective Services and Manual won't get them back unless he cleans his act up. Meanwhile, Carla has had three failed marriages to men who cheated on her. As if to represent each husband, Carla has hoarded out three homes. Her family is trying to get her to at least clean out one of the houses so she can make a new start in life.

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Susan & Michael Oct 30, 2012 Susan `s addicted to buying and selling cars and electronics, but she never manages to sell much. Recently, when Susan was out prowling for more stuff, someone broke into the house, bound and gagged her wheelchair-bound mother at gunpoint, and stole some of Susan's hoard. Michael's father was a Nazi SS member in Germany's Third Reich who ruled his son with an iron fist, even forcing him to eat his own pet rabbit to "toughen him up." Now Michael is a hoarder and he and his dog live like sardines packed in a can of clutter.

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Live Special May 29, 2015 The season kicks-off with a one-hour special focusing on a Massachusetts family and features live segments culminating in an all-live intervention. Also featured is the story of a second hoarder who faces jail time if he doesn’t pass a final city inspection.

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Joyce & Kimberly Jun 5, 2015 A woman's husband threatens to end their 38-year marriage if she does not clean up their home; a woman faces eviction if she does not address her hoard.

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Michelle & Yama Jun 12, 2015 22-year-old Yama keeps shopping and hoarding to preserve the memory of her deceased mother. Michelle's obsession with shopping is putting her home in such a catastrophic condition that she faces losing her little boys to child protective services.

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Ruthann Jun 19, 2015 Ruthann promised her cousin that she would turn their historic house into a bed and breakfast when it was sold to her but instead she has destroyed the crown jewel with her cat and antiques hoarding. Ruthann blames the situation on "the other woman" who happens to be her daughter that ran off with her boyfriend and had kids with him.

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Cynthia & Ricky Jun 26, 2015 Two hoarders are living in life threatening conditions. Cynthia has a debilitating auto immune disease and lives in a hoard that could make her illness deadly. Meanwhile, Ricky sleeps in a house packed with paper and other flammables that are one spark away from an inferno.

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David & Nora Jul 3, 2015 A man needs to clean up his three-acre hoard whilst a woman hoards to try and get over the death of her son.

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Brian & Coral Jul 10, 2015 A man serves as president of his condo HOA, but he lives in a hoard that would cause any other tenant to be evicted; a woman has been hoarding to deal with the death of her son.

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Judy Jan 4, 2016 Judy’s life is a dangerous one of severe contradictions. She is an extreme germaphobe who spends her entire day engaged in sanitization rituals, yet she lives in a severe and extremely filthy hoard overridden with mice whom she considers her friends. The situation is so hazardous to her health the fire department and health department have mandated a clean up.

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Roxann and Barbara Jan 4, 2016 Roxann is a vibrant, beautiful 32-year old mother and former model who has successfully hidden her hoarding until now. She fears Child Protective Services will intervene if she doesn’t clean up her hoarded home.Barbara’s extreme hoarding has forced her out of her house. The city is ready to condemn the home and do a forced cleanup if she doesn’t take care of the problem.

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Jackie and Richard Jan 11, 2016 Jackie has filled her 4,000 square foot San Francisco hillside home with $1 million of teddy bears. Will she clean up the ocean of bears or lose her house?Richard previously agreed to his family's pleas for an emergency cleanup of his home during Hoarders Live. Will Richard take this chance to change his life?

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Ruby and Mary Jan 11, 2016 Ruby, aka Big Momma’s house, is so hoarded she spends her entire day living in the car, and her grandson has started running the streets of LA. If she doesn’t clean up, her daughters will call Adult Protective Services.Mary’s historic home in the Napa Valley is filled with so much stuff, her two young children are in danger of being removed from the home by Child Protective Services.

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Ben and Robin; Kevin Jan 25, 2016 Ailing couple, Ben and Robin's hoarding is so severe that EMTs can no longer access their home for emergencies.Kevin is hiding a hoard of sexual paraphernalia in his home from his family by living in a hotel. He must reveal his secrets and clean up his home with family if he wants to move back in.

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Dorothy and David; Doris Jan 25, 2016 Dorothy and David fell in love with each other over their mutual love of hoarding. Their home is so packed now it has become physically unsafe for Dorothy and doctors have said one more fall in the hoard could paralyze her.Doris' house is so packed with her wigs, shoes and other treasures she has literally been hoarded out of her house. She must clean up if she wants to move back in.

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Dick; Karen Feb 1, 2016 Dick has hoarded out his girlfriend Sandy's house to the point that the two of them can no longer live in it. They face financial ruin if they can't shed their current apartment rental and get back into Sandy's home.Karen started hoarding after the tragic suicide of her oldest son. However, her young grandson now lives in her home and the neighbors have been making calls to child protective services due to the state of the property.

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Lonnie & Linda Dec 19, 2016 Lonnie is a famed neurosurgeon and former Lt. Governor of the State of Nevada. He is also a notorious hoarder spending an estimated $10 million on his collections! Lonnie is facing potential bankruptcy and the loss of all assets if he can't auction off some of his hoard to pay off debts. Linda loves Storage Wars. However, she has accrued so many storage units, she can now barely live in her house. Her loved ones are on the verge of calling authorities to have Linda forcibly removed from the home if she doesn't clean up.

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Stanks & Anne Dec 19, 2016 The Stanks have hoarded themselves out of their home and are facing the loss of their property if they cannot get it up to code. Anne is in love with Christmas! Her diabetic husband is at risk for life threatening injuries trying to survive in her enormous collection of seasonal d cor. If Anne doesn't take Christmas down once and for all, her husband will leave her for his own physical safety.

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Leza & Linda Jan 2, 2017 A woman's home is red tagged as uninhabitable and she has to clean it up before an imposed deadline or risk losing her property. Also: unsanitary conditions prevent a woman from taking her husband home following a heart transplant

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Linda & Kerry Jan 9, 2017 A woman's farm is at risk due to a substantial hoard sparked by preparation for an economic crash. Also: a hoard of plants have overrun a man's house and he risks losing his family is can't clean things up.

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Shannon & Ray Jan 16, 2017 A woman blames her hoarding on demons possessing her home; a man faces charges when the hoard in his historic San Francisco Victorian house catches fire and almost burns down the block.

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Sandra Jan 23, 2017 Former famed interior designer, Sandra, has hoarded out every square inch of the historic mansion she lost to foreclosure. However, she refuses to leave the manor in spite of the fact the bank has sold it to a new couple. The new owners are now facing a crisis of conscience trying to figure out how to compassionately evict Sandra from the property and dispose of her hoard.