A friend of mine started a business after he got layed off. He cleans houses but markets his business to banks and real estate companies. He goes in and cleans foreclosed houses after people are evicted. He is just a run-of-the-mill cleaning service but has “foreclosure restoration and cleaning” in his busines profile.
BRILLIANT!
got a friend doing the same thing, shortly after he started he saw how much stuff people were leaving and started selling the stuff on ebay.
he now has a second hand store selling all the stuff his company has hauled out of houses.
I thought it interesting that he removed ALL the appliances, even some barely a year old, and hauled them away.
Not asking yet (that will come later) but I think he must have hit some mold.
He'd been far ahead in this game if the last owner had gutted the house as he left.
I got a neighbor that does the same thing. However, you friend needs to change the name of his service to get with the 21st century, it is now called “home remediation services”!!!!
You ought to see all the crap he puts into garage sales, stuff left behind by those evicted. Everything from tools to appliances. The banks do not care and have told him so, they just want the property presentable.
A good friends father in law owns a disaster recovery business. Normal business was going in after water damage, mold removal, smoke, and the occasional murder scene to remove and clean up the blood and effected areas such as carpet, bed, walls, etc...
He too has gotten a good amount of business coming in after some loser decides to cause great damage to property.
Brilliant idea. The bank had to call in someone for my next door neighbor when they slunk away in the night.