In the repo/collection business you will see some of the dirtiest nastiest people on this earth, but I feel I must tell you about one the nastiest families I had ever seen. I was reluctant because they at one time “BY MARRIAGE only” were my in-laws; they are my Ex-Wife’s Aunt & Uncle. I will refer to my Ex-Wife in this story as “The Tramp” which is the nicest word I can use to describe her. I will get on with the story. These Ex-in-laws always wanted the nicest merchandise but they couldn’t afford anything nor did they have credit to finance anything, don’t get me wrong they had a ton of credit just it was all Bad! These are Rent-To-own companies dream people, so they thought. I knew they got everything from rent-to-own, and I also knew they paid like crap.

I had been with this RTO company for only about 2 weeks, I had been going through the very bad customers in their list when I came across the ex-in-laws name, they were the latest customers they had and also listed as a “Skip” this is when customers move and take your merchandise, then stop paying and you have no way to retrieve your items. I told the manager of this RTO store, hey I know where these people skipped to, they had moved from the Hood to the Woods. I knew this because “The Tramp” had told me they had got some fool to finance them an old house in the woods, then made me go with her out to the place! But I wasn’t going to tell anyone I was working with that I knew them or at that time I was “BY MARRIAGE only” related to these people. I knew “The Tramp”’s Grandmother was living with them also, she was no peach herself and they all were equal in the nasty department. I tell you this because the old lady nor any of them liked me very much, which was fine with me. I wouldn’t let my son go over to that house with “The Tramp” and this pissed them off, they always said I thought I was better than them and this wasn’t true BUT I was a hell of a lot Cleaner!! The time we went over to these peoples house they had cooked a dinner it was like a house warming party, they had all this food on the table and there was a bowl of mashed potatoes on it, I swear as we where sitting at the table from the ceiling a Roach fell into the bowl! These nasty people picked it out and went on with the meal! I asked “The Tramp” one time how she could keep going over there she said “I hate it but it’s my family “I think it was just some more of her lies, I think it didn’t bother her because she grew up in the filth.

The manager of this store asked me if I could get this projection TV back I said “sure” “I was thinking you might not want it back” he said great and told this longtime employee, you go with him this TV is heavy, the guy said “What” you know these people they are nasty, I don’t want to go into another house they live in, the only reason they still have that TV is because I wouldn’t go into that house and pick it up! The manager told him to bad, it’s too late now to leave it out there, we have to get it even if we trash it later. I got my hand trucks and me and my pissed off co-worker headed out to the house, I knew how he felt I wasn’t looking forward to this anymore than he was. It took about 45 minutes to get there as we pulled up and I stopped the truck, my co-worker turned to me and said I’m so sorry but I can’t go into this house, the last time I did I got sick to my stomach and even my clothes stunk for a long time, I said hey guy I understand “he just didn’t know how well I understood” I told him I will hand truck it out and he can help we load it up, he said deal! I can sense you are having a hard time understanding the true nature of the nasty so I will describe the degree of filth within this house. This is what it’s like when you enter this house, first you would be hit with the Smell and it would hit you hard, you will almost think you could see it in the air, who knows maybe you could! You would see junk everywhere boxes, whatnots, papers ETC: and there was cat crap all over the furniture and everywhere. Then you would see some of sickesiet looking cats you had ever seen, and there was a lot of them, their had to be at least 40-50 cats of all shapes and sizes, the only thing they had in common was sickness it looked like everyone of them had runny noses, leaking eyes, sores from what looked like from fleas. Then when you absorbed all that “it got bad, I wish I was joking. This house had the most concentrated, within one house ROACH problem I had ever seen in my life!! Hell I did pest control for 2yrs and this topped anything I had ever seen! The things where on everything walls, ceilings, furniture and of course the damn Projection TV I was there to get. This should help you understand why no one wanted to go into this house. I got to the door and knocked and the Aunt came to the door and said “Hey” then she looked out the door and saw the RTO truck I was in, she said you working for them now? I told her yes and I came out to pick up the Projection TV because the RTO company was going to file legal on them and I knew they didn’t want this to happen, she said god no! but you’re going to have to tell Grandmother because we got it for her, and with this she told me to come into the house “God the smell was bad” but the faster I get in the faster I could leave. I left the hand trucks outside and went in as I got into the frount room I saw the Grandmother, she was smoking a cigarette with an oxygen tank in her nose, I thought “the old lady was going to blow herself up! But a good fire would help the smell I guess” she said hey what are you doing here? I told her I had to get the Projection TV to avoid the action the RTO Company would be seeking if not returned. The old lady said, go ahead it hasn’t worked in a year. She asked if they could it back? I told her she could, she said well and it needs to go into the shop anyway, said it just stopped working one day. I told her I would tell them but I knew why it didn’t work “Roaches”. I went out and got my hand trucks, I had to move junk out of my way just to get to the TV and as I moved the stuff the bugs got on the move! They were crawling all over me the TV and everywhere, I was always amazed at how they always acted like they didn’t see the things. I finally got the TV hooked onto the Hand trucks and when I pulled it back from under the TV the roaches started running everywhere, they were dropping off the bottom of the TV like water! The only good thing about hand trucking this huge TV this house I didn’t have to worry about hitting anything or the floors, who would notice! I got out the door with the TV and when the sunlight hit the thing you could see just how nasty it was and the roaches “Oh God” they don’t like sunlight! The guy I was with came up to help me push it through the rock drive, but when he saw the bugs on the bottom of it he wouldn’t touch it, so I turned around and went to pulling it down the drive to the truck. I told the guy , I can’t put this on the damn truck myself so you are going to have to help load it, with this he went to the truck and came back with some rags he found and with his help I was able to get it loaded. I told them bye, I went to the next store i could find and washed my hands and face but I could still smell that house on my clothes.

The guy in the shop wouldn’t let me leave to TV with him said he knows why the thing isn’t working and it’s not covered under warranty, so I waited till he left for the day and took it back to the warehouse where the shop was and dropped it off and left in a hurry! I told the manager of the RTO store it was the shops problem not mine, he told me to load it back onto the truck then we set like 8 foggers off in back of the truck to try and kill some of the roaches. I was always amazed at how much and well “The Tramp” could lie but I see how she got started “Lying about her family!!

The good thing for me was no one found out I was “By Marriage Only” related to them, and I got the latest account they had off their books.