From the sentimental to the disgusting, extreme cleaning specialist Matt Paxton has probably found it - or stepped in it.

EXTREME-cleanup specialist Matt Paxton and his employees never know what they might find when they enter a client's home.

Lots of trash, sure, but there may be valuables hiding in there as well.

"We've found $1,000 in change in just about every house," he said. "The coolest thing we found was a box of love letters from this lady's husband during World War II. And we found a couple of deeds to a ranch in a house in Dallas."

One of his favorite hoarders was the Wildwood man who had amassed some 20,000 vintage pinball machines.

But, given the nature of the disorder, it's more likely that what they'll encounter is disgusting, vile and even dangerous.

Paxton once worked at a house that was filled with child pornography, for example.

And animals - dead or alive - are a likely possibility.

One hundred parrots.

Three hundred live cats.

Sixty dead ones. In a refrigerator.

Then there were the "bloodied, screaming" rats discovered scampering under hundreds of bottles he and his workers had stepped on and broken.

But the grossest by-product in Paxton's view is human waste. He's removed nine tons of used adult diapers from a home. And contemplated a 15,000-gallon stash of a woman's own urine.

Given all this, Matt, is it hard to keep employees?

Not at all, he said. "The guys who do this job, love it."

- Chuck Darrow