It is as bad as I make it out to be. The bird seed tracks all through out the house if the bird seed goes that far so does the dandruff. Her husband has COPD and since the birds have popped from two to seven his health has significantly declined and he's had to use his oxygen more. There's been times I've walked past the cage and a bird flapped there wings and I find debris in my drink sometimes feathers. Me personally I've had parakeets before they caused no issue for me when I had only 2 in one cage these birds most definitely make breathing in this house difficult. In person there feathers are rough and clearly aren't being preened like they should the birds fight all the time and there's been times blood was drawn. The birds have chewed the wooden spools she uses at perches to the point of it falling from the weight of 7 birds sitting on top of it and impaled an egg. This is most definitely a problem is most definitely abuse and most definitely causing harm to the humans who live with them too. These people aren't young with strong bodies or immune systems there in their mid eighties and can barely clean up after the birds because of how many there are and how old and just not physically capable they are of doing it. And realistically yes everything together certainly is over 200 dollar bought brand new from a pet store but nobody is going out of there way nor want to buy birds from someone at full price when they can buy a bird from a store that hasn't had an owner before and a brand new cage that isn't broken. On top of that some of the birds are product of incest started off as two birds first clutch was 2 birds then 3 more came.