We quite often find ourselves having to distinguish between residential chattels and fixtures in our line of business. We may be valuing personal possessions for insurance purposes, or inheritance tax. On other occasions, we may be clearing a hoarded home in a house or … [Read more...]
Clutter Collecting Disorder & Squalor
Clutter, collecting, disorder, and squalor may confuse public perception, and that’s quite likely given the terms overlap. Although each of them does have a core meaning that is distinctly different. We’ll do our best to unravel the confusion, although the popular mind … [Read more...]
Residential Property Valuations By RICS Surveyors
Residential property often represents a significant portion of the value of a deceased estate. An accurate assessment is therefore necessary to assess inheritance tax. Residential property valuations peg that value as on a particular day. Residential Property … [Read more...]
A Clutterer or a Hoarder: Which Are You?
We’re unsure where the boundary lies between cluttering and hoarding. Is the one deliberate, and the other compulsive, we wondered? We found some useful ideas when we visited Cleveland Clinic, and decided to share them in case you are fretting over a clutterer, or a … [Read more...]
Separating Out the Chattels and Fixtures
One might have thought the distinction between chattels and fixtures was obvious at first sight. After all, Oxford Learner’s Dictionary defines chattels as ‘personal possessions that are not land and buildings’. While elsewhere it says fixtures are ‘fixed to a house … … [Read more...]
Things to Remember with RICS Property Valuations
A property’s value should reflect the present worth of the future benefits of owning it. This influences key factors including raising finance, taking adequate insurance, and distributing shares of a deceased estate in turn. Therefore, this is not something we should … [Read more...]
Inside a Hoarded House in England
Did you ever wonder what happens inside a hoarded house in England? Many folk have no idea, although they may have wandered past several gardens full of junk down the years. The truth of the matter is that junk has real value to the people who stashed it there, but why … [Read more...]
Situational Hoarding – Fresh Insights into Clearing a Hoarded House
The COVID-19 pandemic became a macro laboratory, when government changed their policy and forced us into lockdown. Back in April 2020, Economic Forum was already warning ‘Lockdown is the world's biggest psychological experiment - and we will pay the price’. And indeed … [Read more...]
OCD and Compulsive Hoarding in Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum
Spectrum mental disorders include a range of linked conditions. The syndromes in the range may display similar outward signs. Or be the result of the same subconscious triggers. Obsessive-Compulsive-Disorder OCD and Compulsive Hoarding can still be difficult to … [Read more...]
Is Diogenes Syndrome a Sub Category of Compulsive Hoarding?
Diogenes the Cynic was a disruptive Greek philosopher who was aged about 89 when he died in the 3rd century before the current era. He was no respecter of wealth or power. When Alexander the Great visited him, he refused to get up off the ground to greet him. One of the … [Read more...]
