oh well something like that yeah all right take care now i'm ray
hey man how are you buddy i live in a big old house in a beautiful city
i've been told that warehouses are growing in san francisco i
get more than two million dollars for this house the problem is it's full of stuff
this is a three-story house every level of this house is cluttered
i live in this house with my younger brother
my brother has not contributed i am the sole person responsible for this collecting
what's going on man what's happening my name is tony and i'm ray's brother
i've lived in the house over 50 years if i describe the house right now i say it's
in bad bad shape i'm allison and i'm ray and tony's neighbor i witness ray picking up broken
furniture old vacuum cleaners just anything that he sees on the street it's very unhealthy
there was a small kitchen fire part of the wall where the refrigerator was attached
and plugged into caught fire it was due to a faulty plug to the refrigerator that he had
picked up off the street because of the dynamics of how houses are in san francisco
we share walls fires just spread quickly after the fire i became very concerned for my safety
because he couldn't burn down the neighborhood when the fire people came to the house
they saw all the stuff that was there and we were ordered to clean it up
i have received violation notice and i actually attended a hearing from the san francisco housing
authority if i don't clean it out i have a fear that i will become homeless my brother and i have
lived together for the majority of our lives i'm sure my brother's concerns are similar to
mine of being homeless but i think we would stay together i hate to say it this way but be homeless
together we're back at ray and tony's home
after receiving some heartbreaking news and just to let the family know yeah tony passed away
last night ray lost his brother we're all still struggling to kind of process this
very good to meet you i'm really sorry for your loss my name is matt paxton and i'm an extreme
cleaning specialist i i don't even know what to say these are extraordinary circumstances
and our first instinct was just to wrap it up and leave i just want to really triple verify
that you actually want us to go in and clean this house with you i really want this in honor of the
loss of my brother and i really need to do this to get within city codes this is really tough
one hand you want to pause and respect the man that just died but also we have two days to save
this house or ray also loses his home we would not normally advise cleaning up right after a loss
like this but these are very special circumstances i'm going to rely on dr t a lot to kind of tell us
when we need to pause and we don't we want to get your house cleaned but we're still worried
about you the loss of the house and the loss of his brother is just too many things to grieve
i think if we can prevent the loss of his home he'll have some psychological space to actually
mourn i really want to do this ray is absolutely firm and resolute that he wants to move ahead with
the clean out we'll all be here to support you and we're going to move this ahead as much as
you can tolerate okay and thank you both very very much we'll be watching the situation very closely
but i think it will be okay because while ray had no control over the death of his brother he
does have a way to prevent the loss of his home it's totally different than we're used to but i
think it's a good plan and we're just gonna get started i'm gonna go get my crew and we'll meet
you inside tony was was ray's best friend as well as his brother he just lost everything last night
and now if we don't hustle he loses his home i've never had a job more important than this
ray's gonna have an awful lot to do just putting his brother to rest properly
we're also putting together a world-class supporting cleanup
our plan for this cleanup is to go as slow as ray needs you see anything no so far go for it
ray is a people pleaser the rest can go ray lost his brother last night and he's still
trying to please us let it go go for it all right take
when we were cleaning out the kitchen we were finding holes in the subfloor
going right through in the back of the house you can actually see where the walls are parting away
from the floor seams of the house are separating and bottles are falling out i think the goal was
to do this top floor and then the floor below us i'm finding that it's going to take me a lot
longer to clear the floor because i have to keep us focused on the safety we may only have time
to do the top floor but that's what the city is most concerned about we're going to lobby for some
extra time to do the next two floors but we've got to show good faith and get this top floor done
everybody's pitched in from the camera crew to my crew
we've done everything we can to get this house ready i want to
bring ray in now to see his new space in this home
are you kidding me what are you looking at this i love you baby
i didn't expect that you talking about surprise surprise surprise wow guys we got a new fridge new
microwave we got a little bed for you okay we started off pretty bleak the house was
overwhelming and then we lost ray's brother but here's the deal we have not fixed this
entire house we've done a good start we had a very emotional situation we also had a very dangerous
house we had biohazard we had rats we were only able to empty the contents out of the top floor
we've gotten you things to make you comfortable while you're here as you start to sort through
things you start to make some plans you're going to be working with josh in regards to the city and
all the work that we've accomplished here i'm sure we can get an extension on your time to continue
the work on the house that's needed tony will be amazed tony be happy he'd give the yipitay wuhu
louder and more joyously than i thank you guys excuse me no it's thank you those are tears of joy
thank you while rey's home is safer rey is not completely safe but the loss of this house and
the loss of this community would be devastating for ray so i think it's really important for him
to stay here for me to feel comfortable leaving i really want to hear from you what are you going to
use in the way of a toilet until josh's plan to restore the plumbing happens my neighbors next
door have extended me the privilege of using their facilities wonderful right wonderful i'm okay
leaving right here cause he's gonna be fine he's in the neighborhood he needs to be in
and people loved him and his brother and they're gonna do anything to help them
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