The COVID-19 surge in Australia, and subsequent city lock downs are apparently causing a run on loo paper. Scientists in four cities examined similar pandemic-related hoarding a year ago. They wanted to know whether hoarding, or prosocial behaviour would help them pull … [Read more...]
The Importance of Valuing an Asset Accurately
It’s important to value our assets correctly, whether these are fixed property or open land. The same applies when valuing a movable asset such as old furniture, appliances, and aged porcelain. For how else could we insure them correctly, and substantiate an … [Read more...]
Need Support with a Hoarders House Clearance? Avery Can Assist
A hoarders house is an outward sign of the occupant’s reticence to discard items that are of no obvious use, or are valueless in other people’s minds. The items are usually piled up untidily, as opposed to a carefully curated collection of items of genuine value. A … [Read more...]
A Lay Persons Guide to Hoarding Disorder: How Does It Work?
What is hoarding in your mind? Is it something people accuse you of because your hobby is spreading itself? That’s harmless enough. However, if an elderly relative leaves their estate in your hands you could face a compulsive hoarding situation. And that's a more … [Read more...]
Applying for Probate and Valuing the Assets of a Deceased Estate
The principles behind obtaining permission to manage the property, money, and possessions of a person who died are simple. But the administration itself may be more complicated depending on the value and nature of the assets, and the order or disorder the person left … [Read more...]
Valuing an Estate and Clearing a House for Probate
There’s quite a lot to do if someone talks you into valuing an estate and clearing a house for probate. If you are out of luck, you may have to do a hoarders house clearance too, but that's another story for later. If you have the time and patience for this, then … [Read more...]
Simplify Your Probate Task by Managing Your Hoarder
There can be few things more saddening than entering a deceased friend’s home and finding it piled high with junk. This is especially true if they appointed us their executor, and we have to sift through their possessions to find their valuables and last … [Read more...]
Valuing and Clearing a Hoarded House for Probate
Probate is a legal term derived from the Latin word ‘probatum’ meaning something proved. Nowadays we use it in the sense of winding up a deceased estate. And incidentally clearing a hoarded house as may be needed too. The probate process includes identifying the … [Read more...]
Clearing a Hoarder’s House While Checking for Value
Hoarding disorder is a compulsion that compels afflicted people to store things up for no apparent reason. This distinguishes the condition from a desire to collect items of social value. Hoarding tends to develop later in life, sometimes after a psychological … [Read more...]
Compulsive Hoarders House in the Lonely Age of COVID
Compulsive hoarding is a pattern of behaviour in which affected people acquire large quantities of objects they seem unable to throw away. However, this is not the result of a conscious decision to collect. There are deep-seated drivers behind the fixation we may … [Read more...]
