Ms. Dunaway, who had just moved in, decamped quickly, moving to London to be with a new lover and dumping the house cheaply.
Ms. Kar had tried many times to dissuade the servant from dumping the house's garbage in the increasingly disgusting lot, she said, but his employer had dismissed her concerns.
After my mother divorced my dad, he was convinced that she had cheated on him with her new boyfriend so he took a dump truck load of debris from a job site he was working at and dumped it on the house of my mom's boyfriend while she was in there having lunch on her lunch break.
A stench of tar and sweat built up and, occasionally, as he freed a piece and flung it aside, a sheet of black soot dumped out of the house like a solid object: 80 years of stored-up Cleveland air pollution, Guy had explained, back to the Depression-era belches of Slavic Village's steel mills.
The house-size trucks dump the ore 24 hours a day into massive grinders that crunch it down to potato-size chunks and then spew it onto conveyer belts.
Eighteen months after moving in, Mr. Berks and his wife took drastic action: They dumped their house (managing to break even), sold almost everything in it, loaded up their Subaru and drove to Honduras for a six-month adventure.
The cruel act: dumping a house cat on the side of the road.
I can't say that I made a dent in the white pines that Sandy dumped around my house, but I cleared enough of the fallen wood off the driveway to make it at least passable.
She treated them like baggage: troublesome encumbrances constantly needing to be packed and unpacked, trundled from one continent to another and dumped in the latest house or hotel room in the charge of inadequate hired help.
For most borrowers, mortgages are cheap: they can manage payments, or let their home and rent elsewhere if they have to move, rather than dumping their house on the market.
