Check out Brendan Buhler: The house at 7927 W. Constantinople Ave. may be a foreclosure but it is not empty, because of all the trash, and it is not uninhabited, because of the smell.
It greets you at the door, climbs up your nose and tries to escape through your eye sockets.
The first time he met the odor, Mike Schoenbaechler fled. Then, courage and stomach braced, he went back in.
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