Leave everything. That is not a figure of speech.
Furniture, boxes, appliances, forty years of accumulation. Take what matters to you and close the door behind you. The cleanout is ours.
Walk away from itWhy these houses sit for years
The family cannot face the volume. Professional cleanout quotes come back at thousands of dollars for a full house, sometimes far more with hazardous material or animal waste involved. So nothing happens, and the house sits paying taxes and insurance.
Often there is grief underneath it too. Sorting a parent's belongings is not a logistics problem, and treating it as one is why so many families stall for a decade.
What is usually underneath
Stacked belongings hide damage. Water stains behind boxes, floors that have taken years of weight, pest activity in the accumulation, and sometimes electrical and plumbing that has been unreachable and unmaintained.
We assume this. Our number reflects a house we have not been able to see all of, which is why we would rather see it in whatever state it is in than have anyone clean up first.
How to take what matters
Walk it once with a box and take the photographs, documents, and the few objects that mean something. That is the only sorting anyone should be doing.
If you want us to look for something specific during cleanout, tell us and we will look. People remember a ring or a service record after closing more often than you would expect, and we would rather find it than throw it out.
Five questions. That is the whole thing.
We already know your situation from this page. Change it if it does not fit.
Question 1 of 5
What people ask about this
Do I need to remove anything at all?
No. Take what you want to keep. Everything else stays and we handle it.
There are animals or animal waste involved. Still?
Yes. It affects the cleanout cost and therefore the number, and it does not change whether we buy.
Can I be there for the cleanout?
If you want to be, though most people do not. We can also flag anything that looks personal rather than disposing of it, if you ask us to.
Often it is more than one thing at once
Walk away from it.
No cost, no obligation, and nobody shows up at your door unless you ask them to.