Curbing Their Unease

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Clearing House

When eviction strikes, it's not just the residents who need to leave -- their belongings need to go, too.

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Sacks of colorful Oxford shirts.

Flat-screen computer monitors.

It's stuff porn. It's unbelievable excess. It's all on the lawn.

A white vanity table.

Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

There but for the grace . . .

The crew of All Seasons can sympathize with economic hardships.

Pulliam founded the company after losing his job selling motorcycles last year. He didn't see it coming -- the dealership had been wooing him for months, and had offered him a very nice salary. But he'd been there less than a year when the location downsized. Pulliam's fiancee, Bree-Anne White, had recently given birth to their daughter, Sidney, and the couple had purchased a townhouse in Bowie.

White works in property management and had seen firsthand the money that eviction companies could make. She suggested misfortune could be good business. Pulliam's brother, Corey, and sister, Julie, are both out of work, and now put in hours with their brother for extra cash. Pulliam pays $20 an hour for the first hour, $10 after that.

Kifle has been nearly evicted himself before, and the stakes have seemed higher ever since he had a baby girl four months ago. Now he lives with daughter Fiori, his wife, his mother and his sister in the same complex as Pulliam. He gets part-time work as a computer technician in Washington. People in offices get mad at him when things they broke can't immediately be fixed.

Richardson works in demolition to make ends meet, and says, "We're all struggling right now."

Almost every eviction has an element of "There but for the grace of God . . ."

Another set of dining chairs.