My clients frequently tell me they want to clean out their parents home before I look at it.
Frequently they are a little embarrassed at the condition of the home and need to make themselves better about it before I see it.
MY RESPONSE is a resounding NO. Don't clean out. Don't pitch anything away.
Most of the time clients pitch out money. Not only the folding green that we call money but valuables that can be sold.
Stage-Show-Sell, LLC can go thru the items and look for family treasures and valuables that can be sold for the family.
This means that we do the work and the family reaps the reward. We take the stress off the families shoulders. We eliminated the family tensions when they try to figure out who can work on the house at what time. We get the house market ready in recording breaking time.
Our fees are usually covered by the treasures we find and sell. The stress we take off of the family is priceless
We find, on many occasions, items that the family would pitch away. In one estate we found a receipt that was 3 years old for a safety deposit box. Normally the family would pitch it away thinking it's old and the box is not current. Not only was it current and contained valuables. Valuables that would have been taken over by the state when the fees on the box were not paid.
Another estate we found tons of bearer bonds. I mean tons. Enough to have paid off the mortgage on the house.
As family members become older and ill they forget where they have hidden items.
My mother used to hide her spare cash in the stove vent!!!
So no, don't clean your parents home before Stage-Show-Sell, LLC can get in there an have a look.
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