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...]
Probate Valuation Of Hoarders House Contents In Highgate
Probate Valuation Of Hoarded House In Highgate Even a hoarded house will have house contents that need to be valued so we cant just assume because the house is cluttered and needs a serious “hoarder house clearance” the items within have no value. On the contrary more … [Read more...]
Consult a UK firm to get hoarding house clearance solutions
Hoarding different types of items in the home is never a good idea as this can lead to accidents and mishaps in the home. This can even encourage the rodents and other insects to nest in various parts of the home which can even lead to structural damage of your home or … [Read more...]
What is the Difference Between Probate Value and Market Value?
Probate is a legal process that has to be carried out at what can be a very distressing time. It can be tempting to simply “get it done” as quickly as possible. This offer the best chance to close the chapter and carry on with life. But it is important to take the … [Read more...]
A More Holistic Approach to Animal Hoarding
We had a call from a new client enquiring about our probate valuation and OCD house clearance services. ‘Why, oh why,’ they wanted to know ‘did the old lady have so many cats? They have taken over the house. How would anybody want to live like that?’ How indeed, many … [Read more...]
How Covid-19 Affects the Way We Do Our Probate Work
The coronavirus is affecting all of us, and it’s becoming evident it will be with us for a while. We have refined our health and safety policy so we can continue delivering exemplary service. Many of our clients are unaware how Covid-19 affects the way we do our … [Read more...]
