Cleanliness is Next to Godliness

For most of you who know me at all, you know that I like to be meticulously clean, organized and tidy. Brandon would say that I'm borderline OCD with my cleaning habits, but I too can get messy every once in a while when I don't have the time to clean. So I would just like to preface this post by saying that I am not perfect, and I understand how things can get unorganized.

With that said, I would like to complain about dirty people. I'm not talking messy, as in clothes on the floor and/or random papers scattered about. I'm talking dirty: sheets unwashed for months at a time, wearing dirty clothes picked up off the floor that have been there for an unknown amount of time, litterbox never cleaned, toilet in a state of disarray, scum in the bathroom sink which is large enough to walk out of the bathroom from utter disgust. There are people out there like this, I can attest to it personally! Now, if you keep your house or living space like this, that is your perogative. Nobody has to see it, you don't force the "clean" population to go into your house and be exposed to the new forms bacteria growing under your bed.

Here is the problem: Open-houses. As I have recently become obessed with house-hunting, my mom and I went to 12 different open-houses on Saturday. Now, you'd think if someone is trying to sell their house they would do their best attempt at keeping the house somewhat clean in order to appease and attract potential buyers. I must be completely wrong on this issue because apparently most sellers don't care what the house looks like. Out of the 12 houses we visited over the weekend, two were clean ... ONLY TWO! We were getting so sick of walking through nastiness, we decided to not even go in one of the homes on our list. After seeing the front yard full of trash (no, this is NOT an exaggeration) we just drove on past it. Didn't even bother going in. Let me give you a list of the things we saw which were very disturbing:
1. Half consumed doggie treats on the kitchen counter
2. Piles of dirty clothes in bedrooms (dirty underwear and all)
3. Hair in bathroom sinks (hair is the most grody thing in the world)
4. Uncleaned reptile tanks
5. SMELLY basements

Is it too much to ask to run a vacuum over your carpet, wipe off your kitchen and bathroom counters, pick your crap up off the floor? I just don't understand. For those of you who own homes (or don't), please explain.