Hoarders

A couple in Louisville, Kentucky who both suffer from hoarding risk losing their children if they dont comply with numerous citations given to them by the city. A womans food hoarding in Milwaukee, Wisconsin is so bad that she places herself at risk for food poisoning.

Adult Protective Services removed an elderly Marysville, Ohio womans sick alcoholic husband from their home because of the hazardous conditions. The familys 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.

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 wifes lifelong hoarding problem. A Charlottesville, Virginia womans relationship with her boyfriend is in danger as a result of her hoard, which has taken over their entire townhouse.

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.

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.

The parents of four children must clean out their entire house or risk losing everything; a retired veterinarians dozens of costly collections have come at the expense of his marriage and lifestyle.

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 Deborahs hoarding triggered his depression and alcoholism and Deborah claims that Rons 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 doesnt change for the sake of himself and his eight month old granddaughter.

Janets life took a tragic turn for the worse when her husband of 32 years died while waiting for a heart transplant and since then her hoarding has spun out of control. She shops compulsively and has filled her home with home decorating supplies in hopes of redecorating the house she and her husband were planning on doing before he died. Christina is a former psychologist who is literally suffocating beneath her things. She is now breathing at about 80% due to chronic asthma and times she has be rendered blue due to exhaustion. She has filled her home with clothes for twelve year old daughter Hanna but even though most of the clothing has been unworn for years, Christina refuses to part with it. She now must clean up before her asthma gets any worse

A firefighters co-workers worry his hoarding is affecting his job performance; a womans two sons suffer due to her unkempt home.

A married couple blame each other for their hoarding compulsion. Two sisters whose parents were hoarders try and combat their own hoarding but find the process difficult.

The small paths in Michelles house are the only way she can get to her collection of more than 60 birds. Her husband of 30 years has been chased from the home by the animals and the hoarded piles that in some places reach five feet high. Michelle must now put her familys needs ahead of her birds and clean the house so that her husband can come home. Kim is a beautiful 34-year-old pharmaceutical sales rep who risks unemployment if she cant get her hoarding under control. Her job requires meticulous records of her legal drug sales, but she cant keep anything organized or find anything in all of her clutter.

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 doesnt stop hoarding.

Robins 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.

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. Its a couch surrounded by plastic bins, toys, boxes, scrap-book and crafts supplies, rotting furniture, magazines, and a carpet stained by cat urine. Lauras 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 doesnt work and theres a terrible smell in her older

A hoarding woman may lose her daughter; a groom never moved in to his wifes cluttered house.

A cancer patient must make her home habitable; a man has hundreds of unfinished projects.

Theresa eats food that has gone past its expiry date for safe consumption. Karen is a former lawyer who is struggling to get her hoarding in order.

Lloyds home is so filled that he is forced to sleep in one of the many storage trailers he has on his property. He now faces large fines if he cant clean up his property. Carols husband Kelly left her vermin and bug infested home but returned later for the sake of his teenage daughter but if Carol doesnt clean up, Kelly will leave her for good.

On August 6th, the Police, the Fire Department, C.P.S. and Code Enforcement all descended upon Jims house and told his family it was uninhabitable. Because of decades of hoarding, he is estranged from his siblings and his children. If he does not clean up now, Jim and his wife will be homeless and the grandchildren that he has custody of will become wards of the state. A towering hoard that included hundreds of dolls forced Susan and Bill out of their home and into a hotel. Now they have depleted all their funds, including their retirement account, and have moved back in, forcing a critically ill Bill to sleep on the basement floor. Their daughter has threatened to call Adult Protective Services if the hoard doesnt get cleaned up soon.

Andrew finds himself a hoarder like his mother and wants to break free from the habit and lead a normal life. Lydia looks to clear her cluttered home so her son can come home from the hospital and recuperate there.

Hanna has hoarded herself and her 200 chickens out of her house and is now living with the chickens in a windowless, unheated trailer. As winter sets in, she and her chickens face freezing to death if their original home is not cleaned out so they can all move back in. In addition to the chickens, Hanna has an assortment of farm animals, some of which are in horrible shape and need immediate attention. When Levana and Todd rented out their newly purchased dream home to make ends meet, they had no idea that their tenants, Kathy and Gary, would hoard the home and destroy it by letting 30 rabbits run loose inside the house. Unbelievably, the homeowners are willing to give the hoarders a second chance if they clean up their act.

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 doesnt get a handle on her compulsion. Janets home is so hoarded that she has to crawl upon mountains of garbage to get to the one recliner where she eats and sleeps. Shes 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 Janets nine children is threatening to have her committed for her own good.

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.

Randys 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. Hes spent millions on his fantasy world known as Randyland--but its never been open to the public. Now he must figure out how to make money from his hoard or go broke and lose everything. Vickis 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.

Beverly has been obsessively recording thousands and thousands of hours of audio and video for decades. Her home is filled with TVs and recorders, her yard piled high with boxes of tapes and her walls hidden behind floor to ceiling stacks of video cassettes. One of Beverlys daughters is threatening to report her to social services if she doesnt get help. Megan is living in her hoarded, mouse-infested home with a one-week-old baby and her two older children. Family Services has made several visits, but she has so far managed to avoid letting them in the house. At risk of losing custody of all three kids, the family has moved to a motel and now must clean up their home.

Stacey has two days to get rid of the 47 dogs and cats that have taken over her house. They have ripped everything to shreds and forced her 14-year-old daughter to move into her brothers home. If she doesnt clean up she risks losing both her daughter and her home. Roi has already been in jail twice due to his hoard. And now the fire department has kicked him out of his house because of a gas leak buried deep in piles and piles of belongings. As the team begins the clean up, they discover that the gas leak is just the first of many dangerous hazards in the home.

This one-hour special updates viewers on what has happened to five of our hoarders one year after they received crisis assistance from the HOARDERS Team. The stories include: Vula who was about to lose her cat hoard and her hoarded home to the city and animal protective services; Dumpster diving, Al, whose three-year-old son had been removed from the hoarded home by child protective services; Jim whose exterior and interior hoard was so extreme, the city had condemned the property and his family was no longer allowed to return home without a clean up; Arline whose hoard was so bad her ailing husband was forced to sleep in a car: and Glen, the man with a 2500 rat hoard running through his house.

A man risks multiple fines after it is revealed he is living in a house covered with cat feces and urine, and the rooms are hoarded with his collections and his deceased mothers belongings. A womans hoard has literally pushed her husband out of the house.

Ronald is a fire-fighter who is legally mandated to report hoarded homes. But in this case the hoarder is his wife, Eileen, and the house is his own. Eileen has destroyed not only her 3,200 sq. ft. home, but her relationships with her husband and six sons. Now, her son Steven has threatened to turn Eileen in to the health department if the living conditions are not improved for his four younger brothers. Judy has blown through almost her entire $1 million inheritance on her hoard, and has lost $30,000 worth of checks in her hoarded house. The floor to ceiling hoard not only occupies her entire home, but also storage units and a trailer. If Judy doesnt get her compulsion under control and find those checks, she and her husband will go broke.

Mikes house is so toxic that a virus she contracted in the home caused her kidneys to fail and almost killed her. Her doctor advised her not to return to the home until it was thoroughly cleaned. Instead of cleaning, Mike moved in with her sister Judy. Months later, Judy can no longer tolerate Mikes hoarding and needs her to move out. If Mike doesnt clean up shell have no where to go. Bonnie is a 46-year-old single mother of two teenage daughters, neither of whom can remember ever having a clean house. The home is hoarded and in need of repair, but Bonnie is terrified C.P.S. will take her kids away if she lets anyone in. The kids are tired of having to do things like wash dishes in the bathtub and there are screaming fights about the hoard. Bonnie must clean up to keep C.P.S. away and to salvage her relationship with her daughters.

A mother with a family history of hoarding continues to hoard following the deaths of both of her sons. A former restaurant workers life has gone downhill after he has surrounded himself with items bought while compulsively shopping at clearance sales.

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.

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.

A hoarder who spent money from a large legal settlement faces an ultimatum from her daughter; a woman living in filth deals with the threat of eviction.

A woman learns of her mothers secret life as a hoarder; a couples home contains 500,000 books.

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 shes had to move to her sons apartment. But now shes filling up that place too, and the situation has already forced her sons partner to say, "Keep the heap - Im leaving!"

An artist is surrounded by thousands of his paintings of naked women; a mans hoarding is so out of control that hes had to put his TV and food cooler in the bathroom.

Jonis 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.

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 Susans hoard. Michaels father was a Nazi SS member in Germanys 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.

BG and Lee have filled their million-dollar Victorian home with hoards of stuff--and now are even competing to see who can bring in the most stuff. The two are locked in emotional combat--a real-life "War of the Roses." Chris has filled his house and eight storage units with worthless junk that he gets for free. His situation is so dire that hes gone without water and other basics just so he can continue to afford storage space for his garbage.

Merlene had it all--an international supermodel married to the son of the inventor of the Lear Jet. But her storybook life fell apart when she got divorced and now her house is crammed to the ceiling with her dumpster dive finds. Jeff once had plenty of cash and women to fill his time. But it all came crashing down when he lost his shoe repair business, and he moved all the contents of the business into his home and started hoarding construction supplies to boot.

A pair of former punk rockers, Fuzzie and Fred are living like teenagers well into middle age, work at a porn shop, and have stuffed their home with records, toys, comic books, ghoulish masks and mannequins. Fuzzies father works 10-hour days to support them, but now he s fed up and giving them an ultimatum--clean up or get cut off. Nancys freezing, sludge-filled home is filled with empty dog food cans, heaps of dirty clothes, rat-chewed boxes, and cobwebs that hang like black drapes. Nancys niece, Michelle, is the only family member willing to help, but now she fears that Nancy will die in the hoard if something isnt done soon.

A womans 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.

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.

A man needs to clean up his three-acre hoard whilst a woman hoards to try and get over the death of her son.

A womans huge doll hoard has put her husbands sobriety at risk. A hoard attracts rats.

A womans hoarding takes over so much of her home that her partner resorts to sleeping in the garage and her teenage daughter is forced to share a bed with her mom. If she doesnt clean up, her partner threatens to sue for full custody of their daughter.

A vibrant, beautiful 32-year old mother and former model living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has successfully hidden her hoarding until now. She fears Child Protective Services will intervene if she doesn’t clean up her hoarded home. Another womans extreme hoarding in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania 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.

Rubys Long Beach, California home is so hoarded she spends her entire day living in the car, and her grandson has started running the streets of LA. If she doesnt clean up, her daughters will call Adult Protective Services. Marys historic home in Napa, California is filled with so much stuff, her two young children are in danger of being removed from the home by Child Protective Services.

Dorothy and David fell in love with each other over their mutual love of hoarding. Their Prineville, Oregon 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. In South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 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.

Peggys hoard of filth and dead animal carcasses in Illinois has led the city to deem her house uninhabitable.[7] If she does not clean up, city officials will not allow Peggy to return to her beloved home. Ed and Connie met over their mutual love over Halloween items. However their love of Halloween ballooned into a much larger hoarding problem. With conditions in their Woods Cross, Utah home becoming intolerable, Eds teenage son has issued an ultimatum: Clean up or he will take himself and his younger autistic brother out of the home—even if that means running away.

In Great Falls, Montana, Kathy has hoarded out her triplex and a dance studio and is facing financial ruin if she cant clean up and rent out her spaces. Her 12 children, including a daughter who developed split personality disorder to cope with the hoard, will try to get her to face her demons. Elmiras hoard has become so bad that code enforcement is on the verge of condemning her Chesapeake, Virginia home. Elmiras family will have to resolve their "step vs. blood" dynamics to help her through the process.

Sybils hoard is so intense that mice have started to live in her tub and her refrigerator. Her Gresham, Oregon home is so jam packed with items and rodents that she has literally been forced outside and is now sleeping in her backyard cat aviary. If she doesnt clean up, her family will call adult protective services and have her removed from her property. Ron, has hoarded out his Miami, Florida camera shop to the point where he has lost many of his customers. If he doesnt clean up, he could end up losing his business and livelihood.

Celia is in danger of losing her hoarded California home of shoplifted items and her illegal hoard of dogs if she doesnt get her compulsion under control. Nathan came out as gay when he was 15. The lack of acceptance from his community led him to hoard items as a way to deal with his pain. Now in his early 30s, his hoarding has escalated to the point where he is facing eviction from his Dawsonville, Georgia home. Nathan must face all his past trauma in order to overcome his hoarding crisis.

In Port Angeles, Washington, Sandi is known as the towns Mrs. Claus over the holidays. However, she has taken her alter ego to the extreme with her gift hoarding compulsion. Things have gotten so out of control with her Mrs. Claus persona that Sandi is on the verge of going bankrupt and losing her gift-hoarded home. Vivian has custody over her grandsons but is on the verge of losing them to Child Protective Services because of her hoarded Mesilla, New Mexico home.

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 doesnt take Christmas down once and for all, her husband will leave her for his own physical safety.

A womans farm is at risk due to a substantial hoard sparked by preparation for an economic crash. Also: a hoard of plants have overrun a mans house and he risks losing his family is cant clean things up.

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.

Over the past three decades, Dale fills his Alaskan property with everything from decking from the Yukon River Bridge to more than 100 vehicles; hoarded out of his home and with a harsh winter approaching, Dale must clean up or face perishing.

A retired nurse makes extra money selling things that other people have discarded but is fined thousands of dollars a week because her three Florida homes are overflowing with her inventory.

Over the past two decades, Carol has hoarded her husbands home. Now, shes left her husband Dave to deal with the hoard and his failing health. With the mansion threatened to be condemned, the family unites to try to save the house and confront Carol about her behavior.

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As a retired Architect Dennis sees the value in repurposing and using materials for all types of projects. This has led Dennis to collect a massive amount of clutter over the years. Being the primary care giver for his wife, he has no more time to spend completing projects he once desired to accomplish. Code Enforcement is concerned about the safety of Dennis property. Now with the help of the Hoarders team of experts, either Dennis will clean up the property or Code Enforcement will take action and he will lose everything.

Code enforcement has been dealing with Cindy in court for years now; Cindy must deal with her hoarding tendencies to save her sons property and her storefront or lose everything.

Eric is forced to deal with his emotional grief as the cleanup process uncovers the beautiful interior design left by his late wife.

Dolores is a cancer survivor and was a caregiver for her late mother; as an escape, Dolores turned to excessive shopping, which triggered her hoarding disorder.

Meryl chased a shopping high, and ended up with a massive debt and a falling out with her brothers family. With the City of Worchester threatening eviction, the experts help clean up her property.

Margie and Bethels house is an extreme fire hazard, filled with 500 tons of clutter and contaminated with rodent waste. The experts give Margie a chance to clean up and create a safe environment.

A retrospective special featuring some of the series most intense collections of vehicles. Hosted by resident clinical psychologist Dr. Robin Zasio, and extreme cleanup specialist, Corey Chalmers, viewers follow individuals on their journeys to relieve themselves of their massive vehicle hoards.

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Terri has never really been able to live in the home she bought as the house was filled with clutter from her hoarding. Terri and her boyfriend Kraig have always wanted to get married but the hoarding has stood in the way. Terri spends all her time as a live-in caregiver for an elderly gentleman and has hoarded clutter in his house as well. Her entire life hangs in the balance as her relationship and her career are in jeopardy. Terri is finding the process extremely difficult and is clashing with the cleanup process. She needs to organize her house, her clients house and get her hoarding disorder under control. Will the Hoarders team of experts be able to complete the job or will Terris temper stop the process?

To deal with the loss of his partner, Paul turns to collecting items to use in his interior design business; Pauls massive hoard has now stressed his relationship with his immediate family and threatens the only family support he has left.

Carmen suffered the loss of her husband, Mike. After a neck injury, Carmen lost her job as a data management specialist. Being alone at home and having no job created anxiety that triggered Carmens hoarding disorder and online shopping. Carmens daughter Melissa is worried that Carmens life is spiraling out of control as she has shut out communications with much of the family. With the help of the Hoarders team, Carmen wants to clean up her home and get her hoarding disorder under control.

Peggys divorce in 1981 left her alone when her daughter decided to live with her father. Finding a job as a live-in caregiver required Peggie to move across the country and start over. Thrift store shopping allowed Peggie to socialize after becoming alone again when her client passed away, but it also triggered her hoarding disorder. For years Peggy desired to clean up her hoard. Now with the help of the Hoarders team, she intends to unclutter her life and get her hoarding disorder under control.

When Lia was ten, she became intrigued by her mothers many collectibles and started going to antique stores and estate sales with her and is where Lia suspects her hoarding compulsion originates. Unfortunately, Lias hoarding went into overdrive when her three sons moved out, and Lias husband, Ken, worked full time. After a severe blood infection and struggling with the emergency ambulance response, Lia realizes the extreme danger her home presents to her. Now with the help of the Hoarders team of experts, either Lia will clean up her home and have a safe place to live or risk everything.

Darlene is a dynamic, outspoken, eclectic woman from Vancouver, BC. She believes in New Age energy healing, the fifth dimension, and describes her packed home as a "mystical mess." Darlene has so much stuff that shes hoarded herself outside, leaving her to sleep under a tarp on her porch. With winter coming, Darlenes exposed porch bedroom is about to get a lot colder--so somethings got to change. Along with the team of experts, Darlene is going to try to regain control of her life and create positive energy in her home.

Roz grew up on the east coast of Canada with 13 siblings; nothing went to waste; when her first marriage fell apart and she took up with another hoarder, her house became unmanageable; with the help of the team, she intends to unclutter her life.

Being on call 24 hours a day enables practiced midwife Terri to hide her personal life and the depths of her hoarded home; as she constantly blames the hoarding on her busy schedule, past trauma surfaces to reveal the real reason for her disorder.

Between dumpster diving, weekly swap meet purchases and occasional yard sale finds, John collects a massive amount of clutter over the years and openly admits that he feels trapped by his hoard.

David and Elizabeth have been co-dependent co-hoarders for as long as their adult children can remember. The couple had to remortgage their home because of their addiction to buying items sold on television, such as Tiffany-style lamps. David has more than 40 of these lamps, most of which have never been unboxed. The house is overrun with mice, and Elizabeths doctor has threatened to report them to the city and have it condemned. David treats it all like a joke - but no one is laughing. With help from the Hoarders team, will this couple be able to let go of their things and hold onto each other?

The only way David and Odette can enter or exit their 3,000 square foot home is by climbing a six-foot ladder into the kitchen. The couple live in what should be a dream home - an architecturally designed masterpiece with sweeping views of the Blue Mountains but instead, the house has become a nightmare. David has crammed it to the brim with stuff and Odette continues to add to the hoard with purchases from online auctions. The couple is on the brink of disaster and Odette is threatening to leave him if he cant clean up their home. With the help of the Hoarders team, can David and Odette unclutter their lives and get her hoarding disorder under control?

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Hoarding cars and car parts is Tims way to cope; Tim intends to fix and sell the stuff, but he never does; his wife, DeeDee, refuses to return home to the mess, and they face the possibility of divorce if he doesnt clean up his hoard.

Regular visits to local estate sales, yard sales and thrift stores distract Terri from her problems, as she cannot resist a good deal on glass decor or anything she considers antique; these objects completely fill Terris 1,300-square-foot home.

Mary has been hoarding for over 30 years; as she faces two impending knee surgeries, her home is no longer safe; with the help of the "Hoarders" team, Mary must clean up her property or face a dangerous recovery in an unsafe environment.

Linda is a woman who grew up in luxury, her parents Miami mansion meticulously maintained by staff; now, at 70, her once-elegant lifestyle has evolved into an existence surrounded by trash and decay.

Susan is a single mother with six children. Shes been a mom since she was 16, and its what she likes to do best. But its taking a toll on her house--and her mental health. She spends her days in bed, avoiding the mountains of dirty laundry.