Easy to say when you’re not the one who paid for all these cars. From what it sounds like he’s taking a loss on all of these cars, and just trying to minimize his losses instead of selling them for scrap value.

He has 200+ vehicles of various vintages rotting on his land, and he isn’t polluting? Even if they were all drained of fluids, and we didn’t have THAT considerable effect on the environment, what about just the various components that the car is made out of, leeching into the ground?

Words are hollow. He hasn’t owned up to it, because he hasn’t taken any tangible steps to correct it. About the 3rd weekend, he needs to post a fire sale. Get rid of 20 cars to save 180. He states 2 things that I see:

What are you talking about? Who’s the criminal? The county that spent an untold amount of time warning him, being forced through the court system, all the way through to judgment? They aren’t mean. They’re at the point of “you had x number of years (decades?) to take care of this on your own. Then, you got cited, and…

Yeah, its his own land but he’s an elderly dude sitting on top of a potential cesspit of nasty car fluids that, if I were his neighbor, I wouldn’t want leeching into our shared soil and water. Clearly, he’s not caring for the cars so they’re probably already polluting the property.

None of them are registered, in any usable condition, they’re all just rotting away. This is absolutely undoubtedly a hoard. How do you not think that randomly acquiring 200 vehicles just to do nothing with them DOESN’T qualify as a hoard?

Nope. I have a tendency towards hoarding myself. I regularly force myself to have clear outs, and I do mean force, and it always -each and every time- begins with me saying I need to get rid of stuff and that I’m willing to get rid of stuff. That it isn’t a problem. Yeah, I’m not even fooling myself with those…

this is definitely hoarding.

He’s asking WAY too much. There is a paragraph where he says buyers keep backing out because they want a $5,000 car for $500 and that he is looking to get what he paid for them.

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THIS. My Stepdad passed a couple years ago unexpectedly after a 3 month battle with a Stage 4 brain tumor and my Mom was left in a house she isn’t really attached to that they owed too much money on. On top of that, they had a large pole barn on part of their property that they built later and he pretty much got…

There is a difference between your situation and the guy in the article. Selling too many cars is when someone is doing it as a source of income. You see a pattern of someone buying AND selling cars. In this case, you simply have someone that as you mention has hoarded tons of cars that are a blight upon the…

That’s not to mention the environmental hazards those cars might be causing, leaking fuel and other hazardous materials into the ground.

Yeah, that’s what I was thinking, the township sees a 74 year old man with 215 cars and realizes that’s going to be thousands of dollars of burdens to the other residents of the town.

Someone with one or two cars is not a hoarder. Someone with one or two porcelain dolls is not a hoarder. Someone with 200 cars is a hoarder. Someone with 200 porcelain dolls is a hoarder. Really not a hard concept.

Can’t he just arrange an auction? I suspect he’s either asking too much, or being too optimistic on descriptions if he’s getting that many people turning up and then going away again. By the looks of a lot of these cars they really are just junkers now anyway; heaven knows what they may have been like when they…

Yeah, clearly a hoarder. Look at the junk in his garages. Some of these were great cars, but most of these dont look in great shape. not sure that there are enough people with the resources to fully restore these cars.

A car enthusiast like yourself may see no problem with this.

Hoarders are one thing; hoarders whose hoardings extend out into the outside of their home are something else. And not something that we as a society should be condoning.

Hoarding is a terrible disease, hopefully he can get some help.