Fixtures, chattels and commercial leases may form part of a deceased estate, if the departed owned and rented out business premises, or was a commercial tenant. In either instance, a commercial lease should govern rental conditions applying to the office, retail space, … [Read more...]
Clearing Hoarded Houses With Respect
Clearing hoarded houses with respect, means we should empower the resident to make their own decisions wherever possible. Furthermore, we believe we should only intrude into hoarders’ homes to the extent necessary, to ensure their health, safety, and general … [Read more...]
Helping a Relative Hoarding at Home
If you have a relative who has piles of stuff accumulating in their house, then its quite possible you have a compulsive hoarder on your hands. We wrote this post to share things you may not know about this condition, and how to go about helping a relative hoarding to … [Read more...]
The Five Steps of Compulsive Hoarding
Compulsive hoarding is a mental condition that influences the quality of life. Its impact may affect the hoarder themselves, and the people sharing their space. Compulsive hoarding develops over time. Today we discuss the five steps of compulsive hoarding, in order to … [Read more...]
Cleaning a Hoarder’s Home
If you have a friend or family member who is also a hoarder, then the time may come when their home needs a good clean. This may follow moving them to a place of safety, or after someone else helped them tidy up. Cleaning a hoarder’s home is not for the faint-hearted, … [Read more...]
Fly Tipping in London: Why Here of All Places?
London has certainly had its ups and downs over the years, what with three major attempts at invasion in history, two of which succeeded. And then of course there was also a great plague that took an even greater fire to quench. But why do we still have fly tipping in … [Read more...]
Fly Tipping in Kent Accounts for 27.8% of South East
I can’t for the life of me explain how Kent became fly tipping capital of the south east of England. When I was a lad, I remember my father driving the family down from London to the Straits of Dover, and the wonderful holidays we had. I refuse to believe fly tipping in … [Read more...]
Tween and Teenage Hoarders Is This an Excuse?
If your teen or tween has an untidy bedroom, this may be a phase through which they are going. Characteristic signs include chairs piled high with clothes they never put away, and a floor that’s hard to navigate past possessions. We consider tween and teenage hoarders … [Read more...]
Clearing a Hoarded Home in Hampshire Where Ancients Trod
Hampshire straddled the land bridge from Europe during the last great ice age. Mesolithic hunters gathered in river valleys where they hunted giant beasts. Until these became extinct and they began to experiment with agriculture instead. Roman and Norman colonists added … [Read more...]
How to Make a Legal Will that Holds Water
I was helping clear a family home after one of two life partners died. ‘If only I knew how to make a legal will,’ the survivor told me ‘I could have stayed on and retired here. But you see my partner died intestate, and because we never married everything has to go to … [Read more...]
