Businesses Cleaning Up In Foreclosure "Clean-Up" Industry

In California, The San Bernardino County Sun reports:

• Foreclosed homes all over the Inland Empire are turning into what Lisa Carvalho calls "trash-outs" - wooden and stucco carcasses with piles of junk left behind by former tenants. [...] It's partially Carvalho's job to get junk hauled out of these abandoned homes. [...] The company, among others, has its hands full cleaning out foreclosures in the San Bernardino and Ontario areas. Sometimes her workers stumble across gems - like prized computer parts. But it's been a potpourri of things, such as cars, computer monitors, stoves and washing machines.

For more, see Vacant houses: picking up the pieces (Business booms in collecting items left by residents hit by foreclosure).