Woman who bought the Turpins' Texas home found feces everywhere

[Stuart G]

Warning: this article will disgust you..it is how those 13 children lived in Texas before the family moved to California.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/27/us/turpin-family-inside-texas-home/index.html


Rio Vista, Texas (CNN) — Nellie Baldwin has been buying rental properties for decades. In April 2011, she bought a foreclosed home in Rio Vista, Texas. She told CNN it was "nasty" and "looked like it was uninhabitable."

"They had smeared feces on the walls," Baldwin said, "in the living room and every room just had a terrible odor."

She said she'd always wondered what happened to the family who lived in the home before she bought it.

Nearly two weeks ago, she finally found out.

The home belonged to David and Louise Turpin, the California couple accused of torturing and starving their 13 children, whom they kept shackled to their beds for weeks or months at a time, according to prosecutors. Evidence from inside their Perris, California, home suggests the children "were often not released from their chains to go to the bathroom," Riverside County District Attorney Mike Hestrin said at a news conference last Thursday.

[3catwoman3]

1. Why ever did she...

...buy it?

Don't you get to look at a foreclosed property before purchasing it?

[Stuart G]

2. Yes, she got to look at it. There are ways to clean up and sell a house like that.

Now, it ain't pretty. I know of a similar case. Woman had 25 to 30 cats that ran about and crapped and peed everywhere. The woman had a heart attack and died there.. Eventually, the house was sold to a "developer".

What happens is the "developer tears down the walls, and cleans and replaces floors. Then rebuilds the inside of the house, while cleaning every aspect of the rest of the house. The "developer" buys the house and property at 10 to 15 percent of value, spends another 40 to 60 percent cleaning and restoring, (putting in walls, windows, floors etc.) then sells the house at full market value. If done well, the buyer can make 20-25 percent profit, or more. It all depends on the desireability of the location of the house. If the house is in a neighborhood or suburb where real estate prices are very high, and demand for a house in that area is great, then it is worth the effort.

And yes, there are carpenters and house cleaners who specialize in cleaning these places. In my friends case, there was an animal agency that came in and took the cats out of the house before any work was done. These two people came and found a way to capture them all, and then remove them. A number of the animals were quite sick from living in such conditions and I think they were all euthanized. Nevertheless, the new owners came in and cleaned it up, and sold it. But one thing was clear, the fellow who bought it, had done this before, and he had a team of cleaners and restorers to do the job of getting it ready to sell. And I think it did sell at a very reasonable price.

So, there are developers, carpenters, cleaners, etc. that specialize in this field. Oh, I am sure that this is not the first case like this, and it won't be the last. (Yes, there are more people who take care of a house like this. Why do I say that?.]..This country now has about 320,000,000 people of all types, and backgrounds). As we have seen, in many cases, there is the "good" .."the bad"...and .."the ugly." This is just one variation of the "ugly"

[Aristus]

3. That Grey Gardens craphouse was cleaned up and sold.

Seems like an okay place to live now.

[SharonAnn]

4. They actually put millions into restoring that place.