Blood scrap money

Did my first Crags List ad last sun , & today did a clean out with moving - Received $150 pay & $150 worth of tools & $25 worth of sundries & $30 worth of steel. worked from 8:30 till 7:30 and saw the sadness of someone loosing their home to the bank did 3 trips to a storage bin Then the move to a room with shared bathroom - kitchen - compared to a 3000 SQ ft home . I need the money I worked for it
But I feel not happy about it AT ALL !! But I pushed hard so nothing was left behind despite crying sadness on customers part. This was as sad as flood victim scrap (worse for me )

The poor economy and the silly stuff that happened in the houseing market caused much of this. You are providing a needed service and making sure your family is provided for so no one has to come clean out your house. It is sad but it is needed.

Happyscraper, you are one of many examples of why I and others suggest newbees read the old threads and study here. There are a lot of college grads currently unable to make your kind of income. Many were told the only way to get a good job is get a college education and now many just owe the government big money for that education. Stay independent minded and work hard you will get there. Mike.

I can add this , The customer was a woman who was working towards a PHD . He husband split then with spite did cash advances to the tune of $ 40,000 . Here is the unfair catch the woman was paying her mortgage but could not pay the credit cards, then the credit card companies put a lien on property , Then I was told (& I believe it) The mortgage company called the loan with a request for full pay out , Causing the foreclosure , The house was amicably dealt with by the lawyers and woman with a vacating date, and sure enough house was sold from under her fast . The credit companies have leverage to destroy your life .
Now it's all over with, but I wonder if setting up a home as a - Homestead - would have protected it. Having young children in home might of changed the outcome also . But the housing market being soft probably also did not allow for a refinance . She only owed $42,000
but with the soft market house is worth around $60,000 to $70,000 It was a very very nice home
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Yes It puts the fear in me as I don't want some one here for the clean out.

Copperhead, just remember you did this woman a service and it is not your fault she lost her home. If you hadn't done it someone else would have, either way she's out and that was determined before you ever got there.

I know. My first foreclosure Cleanout I had tears streaming down my cheeks as I was shoveling wedding pictures off the floor.