Clean out - hoarder house flip

[Christie Duffy]

Hey all - closing on a flip next week that is stacked with stuff. We agreed to take with contents so first task is clean out! Any tips? I already contacted a ton of estate sale companies but most like weeks notice for a sale or will charge thousands for clean out. How do you efficiently handle hoarder houses?

[Henry Clark]

@Christie Duffy

We do self storage.  Our objective is to get units cleaned out, that are being auctioned.  If we make $10, we are happy, even when there is a motorcycle, diamond ring, Drone or whatever in there.  Doing Ebay is not our game.  We want it cleaned so we can "FLIP" it.

If you just want cleaned out, recommend you do the following.  Contact your local Self Storage locations.  Tell them your situation, and ask for their top Auction people.  

a.  Get some orange or lime green masking tape and put it on everything you want left.  Take photos.  If you don't want something broke, protect it.

b.  If your in a hurry, contact 3 or 4 of the Auction people and assign them different rooms with different access doors. Back door, garage door, front door that is closest to their rooms.  

c.  Place some dumpsters in place.

d.  Tell them everything has to come out of their rooms, good and bad at the same time.  Bad goes in the dumpster.  If they start to cherry pick, kick them out.  They can only access the building from xx am to xx pm.

e.  Don't sell to them.  Give it free.  Reduce your exposure.

f.  Give them two days to remove everything.