Guides & resources
Straight answers,
before you start.
Most people we meet have never done this before, and they are doing it during the worst month of their year. These are the questions we get asked most — answered honestly, including the parts that are inconvenient for us.
The Executor's Paper Trail: What to Document Before, During and After an Estate Cleanout
Photos, inventories, sale records, donation receipts: the paper trail an executor should keep during an estate cleanout, and why heirs will ask for it.
5 min read
Cleaning Out a Barn, Shop or Acreage: What Rural Estates Need That Town Houses Don't
Rural estate cleanouts are different: outbuildings, titles, scrap, chemicals, brush and soft ground. How to plan a barn, shop or acreage cleanout.
5 min read
What Can't Go in the Dumpster: Chemicals, Medications, Propane and the Other Problem Items in an Estate Cleanout
Paint, pesticides, medications, propane, tires, refrigerators, ammunition: how to handle the items that can't go in the trash during an estate cleanout.
6 min read
Moving a Parent Into Assisted Living: What to Do With Everything That Won't Fit
How to downsize a parent's house for a move to assisted living or a smaller home: what to take, who decides, and how to clear the rest without the fights.
6 min read
What to Do With Everything in an Inherited House
Inherited a house full of furniture, boxes, keepsakes, and years of belongings? Here is how to decide what to keep, sell, donate, and remove without letting the cleanout become overwhelming.
8 min readHow to Clean Out a House After Someone Dies: Where to Start
You do not have to empty the entire house in one weekend. The order to work in, the documents to find before you throw anything away, and how to avoid discarding something valuable.
8 min readWhat to Do With a Parent's House in Oklahoma — A Step-by-Step Order of Operations
Most families do these steps in the wrong order and it costs them money. Here is the sequence we recommend, including the two things you should never do first.
5 min readWhat an Estate Cleanout Actually Costs — and Why Nobody Will Quote You Over the Phone
The four things that actually move the price, why volume-based quotes go wrong, and how a cleanout can sometimes cost you nothing at all.
4 min read
A Realtor's Guide to Turning an Estate Property Around Before Photos
How to sequence a cluttered inherited property from listing agreement to photo day without losing three weeks, written by an agent who also owns the cleanout company.
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