SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- This is uFixIt week and the ABC7 I-Team is taking your emails straight to your local officials and getting things fixed. For this report, the I-Team took on a big project -- cleaning up a home you'll have to see to believe.
A man with a hoarding problem is creating havoc on a quiet East San Jose street and it has been going on for decades. With no one left to call, they asked the I-Team to get involved. When they sent us a picture, we agreed enough is enough.
Imagine living next door to a yard so covered in trash you can see it from a satellite. It's visible on Google Maps.
"Looks like a cyclone went through here and just piled everything up here," said neighbor Rudy Valente.
Valente has lived two doors down for 47 years. He says, "You can't even see the house, all that's there is debris, junk. I mean solid, solid junk."
A next door neighbor tries to wedge his side of the fence against all the weight building up text to the trashy house.
"The city should be ashamed of themselves, or anybody that's got authority to come out here and do something about this," said Valente.
We did some digging and found out this house in unincorporated East San Jose still belongs to Robert and Bessie Baker on paper. But state records show they both died in 2002. The Bakers lived here with their son Richard. Neighbors say Richard slowly piled each truck, appliance and bike one at a time over 40 years.
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