My neighbors are serious hoarders and the situation with furnace/heating replacement is a challenge

We experience absolutely cold winters and I wonder how he copes with no functioning furnace, boiler repair, or heat pump

I live in a quiet village where every resident minds their own business. The most conversation I have heard with my immediate neighbors is legitimately a brief greeting across the parking lot. In the evenings, you can see one or two neighbors jogging or brisk walking and that’s it. Now, back at our house, my friend and I rarely leave the house, and this habit has led me to know every corner of the house and what’s in it! Even our basement is sparkling disinfect and neatly arranged; yesterday, a mouse ran past me while I was taking a leak and scared me. I finished up, then I looked at its escape route and informed almost everyone else. A close inspection led us to a trash pile up from one of the neighbors. We are not nosy people however the first glance into his house after knocking at his gate confirmed our fears. Having had a small talk and taken the days that followed to monitor him, my friend and I realized my friend and I were dealing with a hoarder. Now I started linking the dots when the heating and air conditioning repairman mentioned he hasn’t been to the next door a while to perform heating and air conditioning service yet the heating system already failed. We experience absolutely cold winters and I wonder how he copes with no functioning furnace, boiler repair, or heat pump. In fact, I quickly doubted if any heat or AC product was functioning at this point since he would not let any heating system service take site, even with a court order to let in a licensed heating dealership; and since the law always wins, the council got an eviction order that made the friend change his mind and let cleaning, repairs and furnace/heater replacement take place by a designated heating business. With time, the occupant was expected to conform to having hybrid heating or hydronic heating in place to match up with regulatory requirements.

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