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<blockquote data-quote="rod" data-source="post: 4049515" data-attributes="member: 5382"><p>The only success the Township has ever had with getting people to clean up their junk is when they can get the EPA involved and that don&#039;t happen too often. If you are unlucky enough to get on the complaint list (a formal complaint has to be filed by a resident of the Township) you do get fined 25 bucks a month until cleaned up but VERY few even pay it. Most of the time it goes on the property taxes for the year---but those who thumb their nose at it don&#039;t pay those either. After 7 years of non-payment the it is turned over to courts and then that can take more years to resolve. People love their junk. Everybody has a &#039;treasure &#039; pile but when you become a hoarder it gets out of control. Lots of hoarders around here own enough acreage so that when forced to they move their stuff back in the woods where it can&#039;t be seen by neighbors or from the road.&nbsp; That is perfectly fine with the Township. Right now the Township has 11 properties on the clean up list. Maybe 3 of them are cooperating.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="rod, post: 4049515, member: 5382"] The only success the Township has ever had with getting people to clean up their junk is when they can get the EPA involved and that don't happen too often. If you are unlucky enough to get on the complaint list (a formal complaint has to be filed by a resident of the Township) you do get fined 25 bucks a month until cleaned up but VERY few even pay it. Most of the time it goes on the property taxes for the year---but those who thumb their nose at it don't pay those either. After 7 years of non-payment the it is turned over to courts and then that can take more years to resolve. People love their junk. Everybody has a 'treasure ' pile but when you become a hoarder it gets out of control. Lots of hoarders around here own enough acreage so that when forced to they move their stuff back in the woods where it can't be seen by neighbors or from the road. That is perfectly fine with the Township. Right now the Township has 11 properties on the clean up list. Maybe 3 of them are cooperating. [/QUOTE]

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