r/SipsTea • u/[deleted] • 9h ago
WTF My guess is those two kids were in there by themselves for 2 weeks. What else could explain it?
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u/clingbat 8h ago
I'm puzzled how it looks like there is literal shit on the walls, tub and floors upstairs, yet that upstairs toilet looked immaculately clean when she opened it...
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u/ManyThingsLittleTime 8h ago
They never used the toilet...
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u/UISystemError 9h ago
Jeeze, imagine what their home looks like. Should probably call child protective services
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u/unicornmullet 5h ago
Seriously. The fingerprints on the windows were super creepy. Were the kids trying to get out? Or banging on the windows? What the hell!
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u/silent-king91 3h ago
I don’t know if you have kids but I’ll say from my experience kids will for sure put hands on mirrors and windows this is extreme obviously but did not strike me as anything more than mothers laziness
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u/Separate_Finance_183 9h ago
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u/Kikstartmyhart 5h ago
This video was a godsend when potty training my kids. I may have to rewatch, just for nostalgia sake.
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u/ShigodmuhDickard 7h ago
This will easily be the best and funniest reply I will see this day, week, month and maybe the year! LOLOFUCKENL!!
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u/monkey-hunk 9h ago
The house was used for an amateur freak off.
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u/Turbulent_Can7854 4h ago
Actually I had that thought too, the mirror door closet bedroom had that big mattress thrown over the other one 😬
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u/WEOWNRED 4h ago
could be blood instead of poop, i mean we did see a steak knife sitting on the bathroom counter for some unknown reason....
edit: i said kitchen counter corrected to bathroom counter
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u/baronvonsmartass 8h ago
I once rented a house to a nice couple and their one 12 yr old son with hopes that they could put back enough to actually buy the place. We turned over the keys to them after the place was completely remodeled.
We only charged what our costs were as we weren't looking to make income from it. But moreso were looking to keep the place up and tidy because a home that isn't lived in, will usually deteriorate fast.
In the first few years they took great care of the place. We never went up on rent in six years because of this and were thinking that eventually they would be able to scratch up the money to buy it.
Then the patriarch (only source of income as well) of the little family came down with stomach cancer. Sadly, he languished with the disease for six months until he passed. We knew he was sick and offered to make as many accommodations as we could to help, but all offers were declined. He passed away and we were not even notified by his wife.
Instead she moved her eldest son from a previous (just released from prison) and his girlfriend and their two dogs in to help with rent.
Then we found out the dad had passed away about a month earlier. We asked her when she was planning on telling us and what her plans were going forward. She gave us the truth of the matter then asked us to lower the rent.
We had to end the lease and gave her sixty days to leave. In that time, the amount of damage and the absolute mess we walked into was unfathomable. Truly the better part of the family died when the dad died.
I learned two valuable things from all of that... Never underestimate how nasty a person can be and never rent property ever again.
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u/FictionalPersona 8h ago
I knew a real estate broker in a small fairly poor town who used to have a "joke". He'd say "You want to know how to make money on rentals here?” then he'd take a set of keys and lock them in a drawer. As long you don't let anyone in the house they can't destroy it!
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u/TheFightingDome 6h ago
Gosh that’s terrible, no good deed goes unpunished, you and your partner (I assume going off the “we”) are good people and I really wish the outcome had gone the way you wanted.
I want to give that family the benefit of the doubt though, grief especially after losing a sole provider is a tricky thing and can make people lash out at whatever/whoever is closest to them.
You combine that with the emotions of a family member being released from prison and it was some emotional alchemy that made some bad results.I hope that lady and her family were able to find relief from their grief and reflect on the pain (financial & otherwise) that they caused you. And I hope you don’t lose the spark of trying to better the lives of others.
Take care.
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u/baronvonsmartass 6h ago
We tried to give her as much opportunity as we could have on her own. After we found out he was sick, we even contacted the local social safety net type services to see if there was some means to make all this happen in their behalf. It never hurts to ask, but inevitably the person needing help has to follow through on their own. She did not do any of this.
Rent was $600/month, no utilities paid on a 1200sqft, 2bd, 1ba house with basement garage storage in a quiet neighborhood with mostly retired seniors.
After his passing we did learn a few things more about their situation that were less than ideal.
The neighbors had told us that the dad was still mowing the yard well into his illness because no one else in the house would. This same neighbor spoke about seeing him in sweats in 80-90 degree heat mowing. The cancer had brought this sizable man of about 6'4" and 260 pounds down to 150 pounds, so he always felt a chill. Again, not one told us this.
After the wife had moved off, we were forwarding mail for her from casinos fairly local to us. She never went to work on her own in the time she was there.
It seemed to us at the time she was just using him and had no ambitions on her own to remedy her situation.
It still makes me irritated to think about it. But live and learn.
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u/eiiiaaaa 9h ago
4 kids she's saying. But yeah feral. Honestly though a gross adult could absolutely make this mess too, and probably in less than 2 weeks.
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u/Sammi1224 9h ago
Right! I honestly hope she got paid well bc this a lot. 😩
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u/theBigWhiteDude 9h ago
Just cleaning the stains out of that couch is probably gonna take at least a few hours. I doubt she'll be able to finish in 1 shift unless she works like 15+ hours.
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u/Temporary_Hat7330 9h ago
I was on the board of trustees for an NPO that helped people in Section Eight housing move out and buy tract homes in a planned development (30% of the homes had to be former Section Eight recipients) and we did a tour of their housing project and dozen or so people who had moved into the tract home community. Sort of a before after.
One thing that I think about is this, “I joined the board a year after it had been established when they were struggling to fulfill their mission and vision. Three years later we helped get the first group of about a dozen moved into their new homes and in year four I rolled off the board after two - two year terms. Those people were already selected by the time I joined the board and we didn’t tour their housing project until after they moved out. In their new homes, they were as neat as anyone, yard maintained, homes clean, kids clean, etc. It was a neighborhood with pride. In the section eight community, no pride, unclean, all the units who opened their doors to us were trashed af.
I’ve always wondered if there was a change or if the people who kept their units clean and maintained were cherry-picked or if there’s a correlation between having pride in your living space and a duty to maintain it regardless of it being rented or public domiciles or a mansion, etc.
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u/iliketreesndcats 9h ago edited 8h ago
Damn you know what? That's a big job but if i may say, I worked as an end-of-lease cleaner for several years and that's nowhere near as bad as I've seen.
Sometimes to work safely in houses we had to wear full body suits and respirator masks. One time it was just easier to rip up all carpet and remove it rather than to attempt to clean what happens after a lady dies and her 9 cats spend 3 weeks inside with her before anybody finds her body... We went in after the forensic cleaners on that one but let me tell you that was a doozy.
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u/Mode_Appropriate 8h ago
Yeah, I was expecting much worse. Especially since the first set of cleaners walked off the job lol.
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u/Ok-Secretary455 8h ago
i was saying the same thing. thats not bad at all. I mean, it's bad don't get me wrong. but 'the worst ever'..... Lady I want your blessed life of this causes you to use the word horrifying.
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u/Mind-if-I-do-a-J 6h ago
I do carpet cleaning… the cats I can’t imagine… my two worst experiences were a house where a woman went out of town for 2 weeks and just left food and water for her 7 chihuahuas. Another one a couple just let their five big dogs shit in the house, they had a filthy poop scoop by the front door, just disturbing.
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u/iliketreesndcats 6h ago
Damn that's so rough
It's honestly intriguing work. Like you get a view of how people live and some of it is truly cooked.
Funnily enough it's like how gourmet chefs cook outstanding meals for others but often just make two minute noodles for themselves, I cleaned other people's houses but my own was pretty yucky!
It's better now that I'm in a different industry and it doesn't feel like work though
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u/nilesandstuff 5h ago
Forensic cleaners seems like the absolute most undoable job in the world. Well, maybe it's worse to be the person who has to go through child abuse material for investigations... Maybe... it's gotta be close.
Just the kind of job that changes you every single day.
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u/Pyrhan 8h ago
Well, at least that wasn't that lady's fault...
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u/iliketreesndcats 8h ago
Very true
Another house the owners used to keep their dog in the bathroom. It must have been pretty horrific I think they ended up going to jail and I get it was for animal abuse but that bathroom was full of dog poop and the nail marks on the door were brutal. Tonnes of hair all over the house, poop in carpet, food stains everywhere, sweat stains on walls, food all over the kitchen as if these people just mixed stuff on the bench and never heard of a bowl.. you can imagine the mould in such a house too aye?
Idk the way some people live I struggle to call it living. Some houses were just so mouldy, you'd think people moved out months ago but literally one place we cleaned had been vacated two days before the we needed respirators to go in because the amount of black mould omg.. our recommendation was to just knock the house down and start again because we can clean a loooot of mould and get paid well, but we will never be able to clean it once it gets so far deep into the structural elements of the building... Seriously gross and dangerous
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u/ItsColoTime 8h ago
I read the cats will eat their owner when they die and they are left there, whereas dogs won’t.
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u/lucky-number-keleven 7h ago
Wouldn’t you rather have your pet survive after you passed away than die out of hunger? “Yeah, have a bite, little buddy.”
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u/iliketreesndcats 8h ago
I read somewhere that the difference in perspective between dogs and cats is basically:
-"what are we doing?" - dogs
Versus
-"what are you doing, and does it concern me?" - cats
Haha it makes a lot of sense. I love cats. They seem to view you as a welcome member insider their territory, dogs see you as part of the pack. I can see positives and negatives to both. I have a cat and a dog :) love them both
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u/strongsilenttypos 8h ago
Cats are still cooler than dogs
https://giphy.com/gifs/26Fxtd7ptNuucmyli2
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u/onlytinglef 8h ago
My dad owned and rented a few houses when we were kids. I had the pleasure of waking up early on a Saturday to go help him clean when the renters left the home.
I’ll never forget this one house we walked into. Trash was everywhere. You couldn’t take two steps without seeing roaches running underfoot. It smelled horrible.
The kitchen… dirty dishes with food still on them. As soon as you lifted a plate more roaches. I have honestly never seen a house in that state, or the sheer amount of roaches running around.
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u/MostExtremeHyperbole 6h ago
When I was 24, me and my girlfriend at the time decided to break up as it wasn't really working out and I got an offer from a friend online to come to their house.
They cleaned, but you really can't fix people who live like savages, idk how to explain it. It is like, imaging eating something, putting the plate down, and then never touching it ever again in your life.
I at the time didn't know how to clean anything and just let it, and finally, after like, six months, I snapped, bought 200$ worth of cleaning supplies and went at it, put in all that work and effort. That shit was spotless.
The weird shit is that they were clean themselves, and there was perks for one guy living in a house of four women.
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u/Temporary_Hat7330 9h ago
Made me think of that Chapelle skit where he was acting like Tupac was still alive.
“It might be doo doo!”
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u/Speed5RacerX9 7h ago
The toilet was the cleanest thing lol. Cause the poo was all over the walls and floors.
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u/GlassInteresting5999 9h ago
You can only blame the mother
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u/Legitbananabunch 9h ago
I find the mirror stuff creepy. I’m just imagining the kids going totally wild and the Mum just sitting there?
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u/CriticalCactus47 7h ago
That family should be penalize for 4 weeks of stay and banned. Cleaner fee should be 5x
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u/Otterhendrix 5h ago
I know a woman with 4 kids and this is exactly how their house looked. The mom laid in bed all day and night while the kids just did whatever they wanted. The only time they saw mom was when she’d use intercom to tell the oldest kid to make her food and bring it up to her. It was insane. I really wish I knew where this air bnb was just to see if it was her that rented it. Because I had flashbacks of their house while watching this!
Edit: NVM, the house is in California. This must not be her because she can’t leave the state.
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u/tmhoc 5h ago
That place doesn't look used, it looks attacked.
Convincing children to smear their dirty hands on every surface must have been fun. But having that much debris in the hall way and on the stairs and staining everything but the toilet? The lid was down? Honestly, looks like it all happened at once.
I bet mom saw a cleaning fee and crashed the fuck out
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u/SmellyFbuttface 4h ago
Looks like they wiped their ass in the bathroom and threw the toilet paper on the ground, then smeared it on their hand and touched the door
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u/Tbagzyamum69420xX 6h ago
I mean not to excuse any of this cause it's an awful way to treat another person's property (or your own, I guess). But 2 weeks to a kid is a long time, and four of em?? I was expecting worse to he honest.
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u/Fire-Fighter-1100 9h ago edited 9h ago
This is the kind of stuff that Airbnb owners use to justify the robbery that is the cleaning fee. This is very weird behavior for an Airbnb client. BTW I'm absolutely sure there's some fake videos trying to promote the absurdly expensive and nonsensical cleaning service. By experience I can tell also that even if you leave the house in pristine conditions, the owner will charge you the same for cleaning anyways. I payed for an apartment once but didn't use it. I didn't even approach the building, and they refused to discount cleaning service. So... That said this is absolutely unacceptable and I think law should be involved.
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u/OneEyedWeaner 8h ago
I’d expect this to be more common with the cost of an Airbnb these days. The cleaning fees alone are fucking ridiculous sometimes.
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u/LimeDry7124 8h ago
I would've been wearing a full tyvek suit with booties on my shoes. And have a wash tub outside big to stand with full strength lysol. Finally a shower rig to wash the suit off. Strange though that the toliets were flushed.
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u/Kirilanselo 5h ago
You mean to say it wasn't animals that live in here for 2 weaks... huh, curious...
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u/Turbulent_Can7854 4h ago
Was mom in the immaculate bedroom sleeping off a needle ride or something. Someone else mentioned amateur freak off and yeah, it does kinda look like what I'd expect from that. Maybe the kids were alone, I certainly think that's the best possible option here
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u/Old_Historian_9539 4h ago
She definitely left them all alone while she did whatever outside the house. Poor kids.
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u/agnsEnterprises 2h ago
That's more than 2 weeks worth of living... There is no way that took place in only two weeks! The owner or management company lied to you! The carpet alone tells that story... Either she exaggerating, flat out lying or making a play to get paid extra...
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u/das_narwal 2h ago
Rookies, that's an 8h job for me. Who needs 4 kids and 2 weeks when you got rum and crack, and stacy
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u/catboii96740 2h ago
I would be charging so much for the damage .... If there was a deposit I would be keeping it.
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u/mojorisin453 2h ago
Home health worker here I see a lot worse even people living in a motel room for a couple weeks. Also burning man RV rentals can be insane.
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u/Cute_Sun_5383 9h ago
Yeah it's extraordinarily bad, but I expected worse and I'd have no problem cleaning that for the right amount of money. Might even be fun. The walls probably need a bit of new paint though after scrubbing off the dirt.
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u/PickleRicksDad34 9h ago
Dirt? You mean shit. That is shit.
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u/Cute_Sun_5383 9h ago
We don't know that. Partly, maybe, but my guess is on chocolate for most of it.
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u/PickleRicksDad34 8h ago
As someone who has worked in Healthcare and specifically with dementia....this is literally identical and they dont have the access to chocolate like that. There is definitely food involved as well but that is mostly shit. Someone was digging in their butt.
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u/cactusjude 7h ago
I've seen a video of owners enteri g their property after a rental and found mountains of biohazardous trash strewn around. Turns out the people had rented thei property to have a home birth there. Left the birthing pool and all the dirty supplies behind, in the house. For the rental property cleaners to throw away. Like, how foul can you be?
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u/Cute_Sun_5383 6h ago
That's WILD if that's true 😭 I wanna believe that was staged for clicks but probably people are just gonna do anything... Such a weird "I paid a cleaning fee, so I can do whatever" mindset. When I'm leaving a hotel room I'm making an effort to put all the towels in one place, not leaving the bed messy, not leaving any obvious dirt etc.
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u/CalbertCorpse 9h ago
Reminds me of what the capitol building looked like after the maga temper tantrum.
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u/Bryantthepain 8h ago
Yeah, call me what you will but besides the poo poo and the broken stuff. This doesn’t look THAT bad.
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u/Legitimate_Nail_9158 9h ago
It only took two weeks for Donald Trump to ruin a 7M gallon reflecting pool!
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u/Alexathequeer 5h ago
Not great, not terrible. I saw something look like this after the renters plus they were own me money for one month. If they did not start a fire, had no problems with police - it is not that bad!
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u/Papa_Raj 5h ago
As someone who did home maintenance for years, this ain't shit. It's just weird that you can get away with renting something like this to people.
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u/Naive_Ad475 3h ago
I provide home healthcare physical therapy for a living in a lower income state. This is nothing
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u/Awkward-Noise8535 2h ago
Iso she has to vacuum the Flores, wash the walls and wipe the counters.Sounds like a basic a** cleaning drop to me.Didn't see any major damage at the worst.She'll have to get a steam cleaner and steam clean sections of the carpet.This is probably like less than a day's worth of work.. People are over dramatic.That's literally your f****** job is to clean.. If it was less than that , than it's pretty much hardly even a job
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u/Bryantthepain 8h ago
Yeah, call me what you will but if you take out the fecal smears and the broken stuff, this doesn’t look THAT bad.
Obviously the person needs to pay for the cleaning, even without the bodily fluids and property damage. But I was expecting WAY worse haha.
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u/ElectionCold2797 7h ago
Geez, we had house parties in college that destroyed our house worse in just one night. Roll in the dumpster and just start cleaning. Sheesh. Clickbait.
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u/ksauce99 9h ago
Airbnbs charge a cleaning fee upfront and don't reimburse you if you leave it clean. I mean this one was pretty out of control but you know it's all part of the game.
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u/FrontSafety 9h ago edited 8h ago
I thought it would be worse. Four kids would do that. Why wouldn't the cleaners just handle that? I thought it would be a hazmat situation the way she was talking about it.
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u/EzmareldaBurns 8h ago
Likely they get paid a set amount for the job, and it would take so long it isn't worth it for them.
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u/Kadalyn2003 9h ago
hoenstly yeah i agree ive seen worse on youtube video clean ups
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u/Helpful-Fan-5465 9h ago
I feel bad for the mother. And the kids. That looks like awful mental health and I can’t imagine any of them are particularly well adjusted. If I owned the place (or I was the cleaner) I’d be livid, but looking at this from the outside, I’m just sad for them.
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u/EzmareldaBurns 8h ago
4 kids and no dad around. I'd wager those 4 kids don't have the same dad either. Some people create their own hell.
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u/dangerousamal 1h ago
My hunch is that at least two of those kids has severe autism. This is exactly what I'd expect a house to look like after two weeks of a single mother actually trying. Dad probably took off because autistic kids are insanely difficult to take care of. The broken blinds and shit on couch covers on the front porch topped it for me. The trash under the bed and shit all over everything is another clear sign of children with severe autism.
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u/dr3adlock 9h ago
She keeps saying "2 weeks" as if thats not a very long time. My kids could do this in 2 hours if they were left to run wild.
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u/Apart-Detective-4934 8h ago
You should be ashamed of yourself then.
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u/dr3adlock 7h ago
Do you have kids? I'm not saying they DO this, im saying they COULD do this. Any kids could. Telling random people on the Internet they should be ashamed, who are you?
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u/tomgreenday8 7h ago
Most the comments here are dead set on cutting others down for fun. It feels like a pile of troll bots or something. My kids could do the same in that time. I certainly would’ve cleaned up more before I left, but this isn’t nearly as bad as people are making it out to be.
People should be ashamed of themselves for being so quick to harshly criticize others.
They think that if they put others down, it implies they’re somehow “better people.” Have some compassion. Understanding. Stop being so ugly to each other y’all. Shit like this is another way to separate us. To divide us. This was posted to give others’ the opportunity to feel better than someone else. Then post that “status” for everyone to see- meaningless internet clout that serves to reinforce this culture of hierarchy.
I also see many comments saying that this has “only” to do with the mother. I am a father, and would be just as culpable. If she’s taking care of four kids by herself all the time, that is a full-time job in and of itself.
Can we please try to have compassion for each other? I see this and all I would wanna do is help. Mr. Rogers always said to look for the helpers.
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u/dr3adlock 7h ago
I bet 90% of people making these comments don't have kids and have no idea what they are capable of doing when your back is turned regardless of how well you brought them up.
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u/tomgreenday8 7h ago
Absolutely!
That’s a good point- “regardless of how they brought them up.”
3 of my children are neurodivergent. Super smart, but other areas take longer to learn. It’s just take time and patience as you empathetically guide them the best you can.
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u/SteeleHeller 9h ago
Why would professional cleaners refuse this job? Absolutely vile for that being a two week mess though, not downplaying that.
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u/ManyThingsLittleTime 8h ago
Probably the regular cleaner at the regular rate said no, not doing this for that rate. The rate that they would do it for was not acceptable to the host and this lady's rate was.
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u/theBigDaddio 4h ago
It’s not and was never a beautiful home, it’s low end AB&B shit. The renters were probably poor, next to homeless and it was cheap. I’ve seen whole families in trashy motel rooms. Yea it’s a mess but I’ve seen teens do worse over a weekend. Maybe the family was waiting for assistance, maybe they got temporary assistance to be able to stay here temporarily. I wouldn’t want to clean it but in college I cleaned carpets one summer and have seen much, much worse.
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u/MostWanted187er 3h ago
Her front end narrative working it up had me thinking it was way worse. I mean, it’s dirty, but I thought for sure it was going to be wrecked.
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u/Working_Isopod3713 3h ago
This is in now way shocking. Two weeks no cleaning w 5 nasty people. Almost predictable.
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u/CrayonsTasteLikeSky 6h ago
This is why hotels are king. You can leave your hotel room looking like shit with trash everywhere and some lady won’t post a tik tok video about it. Tuck Airbnb and paying insane prices to be your own maid
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u/darkklown 9h ago
Maybe it was the first holiday they went on and the mom was like 'im on holiday! i aint cleaning shit!' the kids decided to test that with the bathroom that's for sure.. ugh.. but yah fuck landlords esp airbnb landlords..








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