Business Is Booming For Abandoned Home Clean-up King
Fourteen months ago Nick Hazel was a cable installer in Central Florida. Business was bad and subscribers were dropping like flies in the wake of the sub-prime meltdown. So Hazel decided to retool his business model and pursue an occupation with unlimited upside potential: abandoned home trash-outs and inspections. Hazel makes this analogy to describe his new gig, "It's like I'm a dentist," he says. "Nobody likes to see me. But when a house's teeth go bad, who else is going to clean out the rot?" Having now trashed out hundreds of Florida homes, Hazel says he's amazed by two categories of debris: a.) the things people rip out: "a dining room ceiling, the ceramic floor tiles of a den, a bedroom's wall-to-wall carpet; granite countertops, faucet taps, bath tubs, food-waste disposers, decorative columns, crown moldings, door jams", and b.) the things they leave behind: "Christmas toys, silverware, Tupperware, false teeth, hairpieces, condoms, baby strollers, dried blood, dead cats and live Dobermans." (Story)
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