Another member of this board will know the property I speak of in this case...... You know who you are..... :S :S
Anyway, I was at this property that had recently been puchased for redevelopment; and due to the scope of the work involved, the primary responsibility was to aid in the relocation of all the residents. This property was operated as an SRO, low cost housing. As rooms were being vacated, I had the occasion to need to enter the rooms to get an idea of the inventory of furnishings, so the new owner could arrange to have them removed before boarding the building up.
There were some rooms where no key worked; not the key identified for the room, nor the master key; so I needed to come up with my own 'master key' of a couple of swift kicks to the door level with the deadbolt....
Once in, I found some rooms that were overridden with pests; some smelled like rotting flesh. One room had a 20 square foot wall that had been taken over with mold... Another room had an active beehive (facing the outside rear of the property) that took a beekeeper the better part of a day to remove. One room had a thick layer of I do not know what on the bathroom counter..... Just standing inside the door to observe and count almost literally made me lose my lunch, and I was only in the room for 2-3 minutes. It was all I could do to bring myself to do 5 rooms a day.... Even then, I felt the need to take a 30 minute steam shower with industrial strength soap.... Some of the rooms clearly needed HAZMAT teams to enter, and I was not prepared.... :S :S :S :S
What really concerned me with the pest issues; was the fact that there was a restaurant next door (although I never ate there). Once the pests had no food to eat left after the building was boarded up; where would they go????
Another concern was on the other side of the property was an empty lot overrun with dry brush.... a simple spark and a breeze in the right direction.......
