ExH is a hoarder

[Stupidhead]

Amongst other things.
He hoarded when we were together and now is worse than ever. He's a lot older than me, 67, not the healthiest man alive and I want to know who'd be responsible for all his shit when he dies? He has one sibling he doesn't talk to, an adult daughter who washed her hands of him and our DCs, oldest of which is 16 and really doesn't want to see him again.

He sometimes works from home (mainly the pub) when they stay, he has 9 computers and laptops in his house and kitchen. He has two storage units full of crap like baby toys, broken, old phones, tatty chairs and tables and random shit. Nothing is worth anything apart from a bag of 7 blackberry phones which I have to sell for dC2.

Our conversations are basic texts so I can't (or want to) say anything and he was such a control freak when we were together that I imagine he'd go on the attack.

So. What would happen to all his shit? Btw, when I left I told him if there was anything of mine just to put it in a skip.

It would probably fall to the next of kin and executors of his will to clear the house. Does he own the property?

It would be the problem of whoever inherits his house and/or the executors of his estate if his will specifies % value split (ie. requiring the house to be sold) rather than identified assets (house left to named child).

He's renting at the moment. He had some big idea about moving to Holland but I've no idea whether that will happen or not.

Doesn't the landlord object?

LOL.
Lucky landlord.

Does he have mice/rats.. ?

They're too busy playing hide and squeak.

(Boom boom)

Haha! No idea about his landlord!
Most of his hoarding shite is in two of those big lock up unit places, no idea what they're called. I know he has a moth/beetle infestation as the DCs virtually have to strip off beside my washing machine after they've been there - which isn't actually often!

His house is cluttered but not as bad as the ones on TV. Apparently. I've only seen from mobile footage the kids have taken as they're so shocked, and that's mainly the lock ups.

Those programmes about massive hoarders freak me out. Did you ever see the one where they send an obsessive compulsive cleaner to help a hoarder clean up?

These were people who wouldn't go to the hairdresser as couldn't bear to be touched by unhygienic hands and then had to go to a home where a goat lived in the house and sha.t on the kitchen work surfaces (the bits that were visible anyway).

It was compulsive viewing in a horribly exploitative voyeuristic way.

God yes! I saw the hairdresser one. The toilet licking

The beetle infestation will be Carpet Beetles, if there is a moth infestation I would imagine there are clothes piled up on the floor.

Urgh. The DCs are under strict orders not to leave any clothes on the floor there. I wash everything when they get back whether they've been worn or not.