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Hoarder Cleanup Service

For professionals

A cleanup partner that respects your client and your process

Social workers, property managers, care teams, attorneys, and executors call us when a home needs to change and the person in it needs to be treated well. Here’s how we coordinate, what we can document, and where our role ends.

  • The resident stays involved and consents
  • Written scopes, broken out as you need
  • Documentation with the client’s consent
  • Clear limits on our role

What we bring to a shared case

You’re responsible for something we’re not: a care plan, a property, an estate, a legal duty. We fit around that. We work from your client’s consent, keep you informed in the way you need, and put scope and cost in writing so they can be approved, funded, or explained to someone else.

The approach doesn’t change with who refers the job. Safety work comes first, every item gets a decision, and the resident (or whoever holds authority) gives the yes.

What we can provide

What we can provide

  • A walkthrough and a written scope with priorities
  • Estimates broken out by area or stage, when that helps funding or approval
  • Progress updates on the schedule you need, with the client’s consent
  • Photo documentation of conditions before and after, with the client’s written consent
  • A completion summary listing work done and anything remaining
  • Scheduling around appointments, inspections, or discharge dates

What’s outside our role

  • Clinical, capacity, or risk assessments
  • Legal determinations, notices, or evictions
  • Removing belongings without the resident’s consent or a legal authority
  • Pest treatment, repairs, or abatement (we coordinate with licensed trades)
  • Making reports to agencies on your behalf

Social workers, case managers, and care teams

We work best as one part of a plan you’re already leading. Before we contact your client, we’ll ask what you know about their goals, their tolerance for change, and anything that tends to cause distress, so the first meeting goes well.

  • Consent comes first. We’ll meet your client, explain how decisions work, and go ahead only with their agreement, or with direction from a guardian or authorized agent.
  • Safety-first scopes. When funding or time is limited, we can scope only the work needed for safety: exits, sanitation, fire risks, and a working kitchen and bathroom.
  • Shared language. If your team uses a picture-based scale such as the Clutter Image Rating (opens in a new tab), tell us the ratings by room. It helps us plan, and we won’t use it to label your client.
  • Discharge planning. If someone is coming home from a hospital or rehab stay, tell us the date and any mobility needs, such as walker-width paths or a clear bathroom.

Landlords and property managers

Occupied units and vacant units are different jobs. In an occupied unit, the tenant is the person we work with: we’ll need their agreement to work in the home, and their decisions about their belongings. After a move-out or abandonment, your lease and local law govern what happens to anything left behind.

  • A written scope you can share with owners, broken out by area if that helps approvals or insurance.
  • Documentation, with the tenant’s consent: condition photos before and after, and a completion summary.
  • Practical planning: keys and access, parking and loading, building rules, elevator reservations, and any dumpster permits.
  • Coordination with your other vendors, such as pest control, plumbing, or flooring, so work happens in the right order.

How a referral works

  1. Step 1: Call or send the basics

    Area, rough size, any deadline, and what you’re hoping to achieve. You don’t need to share your client’s name for a first conversation.
  2. Step 2: We meet your client

    With their consent, or with whoever has authority to decide. You’re welcome to be there.
  3. Step 3: Walkthrough

    We see the home with whoever needs to be present, and note priorities and hazards.
  4. Step 4: Written scope and estimate

    Sent to the people your client authorizes, broken out the way you need.
  5. Step 5: Work and updates

    On the schedule we agreed, with updates as often as you need them.
  6. Step 6: Completion summary

    What was done, what remains, and any recommendations, such as pest control or repairs.

Questions from professionals

Who pays, and can you invoice us directly?

Whoever is responsible for the work: the resident, a family member, an estate, an owner, or an agency. Tell us who will receive the invoice when you request the estimate, and we’ll address it accordingly.

There’s an inspection date. Can you work to it?

Tell us the date on the first call. We’ll focus the plan on whatever the inspection is about, usually exits, sanitation, and fire safety, and tell you whether the timeline is achievable before you commit to it.

What if the resident refuses?

We don’t go ahead without consent or legal authority. We can still meet with them, explain how decisions work, and offer a small, safety-only first step, which is often easier to accept.