“Trashing out” in the Inland Empire

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts.

Video worth checking out: KCET’s ‘SoCal Connected’ explores the foreclosure business in the Inland Empire and finds what one contractor calls ‘a disaster on a grand scale.’

One booming business: So-called trash-outs, in which teams of laborers rapidly ‘trash out’ foreclosed homes by removing all the furniture, toys, appliances, food and assorted possessions left behind by the departing residents. You’d be surprised at what people leave behind: computers, flat-screen TVs, children’s toys, birth certificates. An urn containing cremated remains.

Relatedly: I’ve filed a couple of blog items as a ‘guest blogger’ for ‘SoCal Connected’ this week.
You can find the entire show blog here.

--Peter Viles

Your thoughts? Comments? E-mail story tips to Peter Viles.