Estate cleanouts, hoarding cleanup and senior downsizing

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Hoarding cleanup and estate cleanout cost

What the published rates actually cover, what a job costs at each property size, and the two variables that move the price far more than square footage does.

The clutter and hoarding severity levels

The five-level scale cleanout companies quote from, in full, and what each level means for cost, crew and the kind of company you need.

How to choose a cleanout company

Which kind of company suits which situation, what to check before you hire, and the questions that matter when nobody can get into the property.

US aging, housing and moving statistics

How fast the US population is aging, whether American homes suit older residents, and how often older adults move, from three separate Census Bureau surveys.

Square footage sets the floor. Condition sets the price.

Hoarding cleanup is published at $1 to $2 per square foot, or $1,000 to $4,000 for a typical job, with hourly rates of $25 to $100. Those numbers are real and they are also why quotes over the phone are close to meaningless.

Two 2,000 square foot houses can be the same job or completely different jobs. One is full of furniture and boxes. The other has blocked exits, a non-functional HVAC system, pest infestation and mould. The published square-foot rate covers the first. The second is a remediation job with different equipment, different disposal rules and different insurance.

The industry works from a five-level severity scale, and knowing roughly which level a property sits at tells you more about the likely cost than the floor area does. It also tells you which kind of company to call, because a general cleanout crew and a biohazard remediation firm are not interchangeable.

The severity scale, priced

Cleanout companies quote from a five-level clutter and hoarding severity scale, and the level decides almost everything about the job. We set the published level descriptions against the published cost ranges so you can work out roughly where a property sits before anyone visits.

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