When Your Neighbor Is A Hoarder

Nothing like finding that new, quiet apartment you've always dreamed of only to discover your neighbor is... a hoarder. Curbed has the story of one woman who moved to 27th Street in Murray Hill, and on her first night of unpacking heard what she thought was someone trying to break in to the apartment across the hall. As she quickly found out from the super, that person was just Coe, her new neighbor who hoards so much that she needs to "tackle" her door just to get in!

Turns out Coe had been accumulating things for 20 years, and it took 6 years for her new neighbor to get outside forces to handle the situation. Eventually the Junk Pros arrived and cleared the apartment out in 5 days—during which time they found old food, "bottles filled with piss and shit, and a sticky trap with a fossilized rat stuck to it." The nosy neighbor even snuck in each day of the cleaning process to take photos, and also has some video of Coe trying to get in to her landfill apartment—check it out here. This one really gave those Collyer brothers a run for their money.