Have you ever felt the shame when a loved one or someone you know finds out that you are a hoarder? This feeling can be one of the worst ever to happen to a person with the disability known as hoarding! Yes Hoarding is a know disability that can leave a long lasting effect on a person and sometimes even cause great damage like depression and feelings of loneliness. This is also very much true if the hoarder happens to live alone and looks forward to nothing at all. Well, now is the time to contact this special Hoarder Junk Removal Company that can help you get back on your feet and not have to worry about much at all. Getting your life back and in order can greatly help with your health and mental well being. Junk Removal, Trash Out, and many other services are covered by this Los Angeles Hoarder Cleanup company that likes to keep it real and make sure that our customers are guaranteed to get  the best service imaginable.

With this Hoarder Junk Removal Company Los Angeles doing the right thing and helping their customers, we can help to battle this very disheartening and very real disease. Giving people a second chance with a clean slate is one of the best things you can do for someone that has problems which they cannot handle themselves. Removing junk items and debris from their households helps to keep the Hoarder tendencies at bay and in a smaller chance of having them cause greater damage to the individual with Hoarder Cleanup issues.

When I worked as a professional organizer for a junk removal service we were often called upon to do a storage unit clean out. More than once we would run into multiple units that had been rented by hoarders. More than once we encountered hoarders who were on the literal knife’s edge of destitution. They had spent their last cent on paying rent on storage units filled with junk. And even faced with the prospect of homelessness these hoarders would often struggle with parting with useless junk piled in storage bins.

Storage unit hoarding is hard to prevent and extremely hard to detect. Many hoarders use storage units to hide their hoarded junk so they don’t have to deal with the shame that comes from a junk filled home.  If you suspect that a friend or loved one is hoarding you should seek professional help for them. 

At first he tried to use his normal maintenance people to clean up the unit, but they really had no clue where to start. In addition, the filthy conditions made it truly unsafe for his normal laborers to work in. He was under pressure to get this unit cleaned out and ready to rent. So I told hi the best route to go is to call a junk removal service that specialized in hoarders junk removal. 

I know a lot of people who have encountered hoarding situations and try to clean them up themselves. And they soon get overwhelmed with the task at hand. When you are faced with the task of cleaning up after a hoarder there’s three reasons to use a junk removal company that has some experience cleaning up after hoarders.

1. Speed… Companies that handle hoarder clean up know how to clean up after a hoarder. They can clean out a hoarder’s home or apartment in a day. They usually bring enough trucks and manpower to handle this type of job.

2. Safety … Hoarding is dangerous. It is dangerous for the hoarder and dangerous for those charged with cleaning up after a hoarder. It is not uncommon for people to be hurt in “junk avalanches” where a pile of old newspaper or boxes comes crashing down. Also hoarding also creates filth and potentially unhealthy working conditions for clean up crews. Again, hoarding is a known problem to junk removal companies and they know the proper way safely clean out a hoarder’s home.

3. Psychological Health … Cleaning up after a hoarder is physically and mentally taxing work. People unfamiliar with hoarding face a cavalcade of horrors that can be emotionally scarring for a lifetime. This is why a hoarder clean up may be best left to professionals who are hardened towards the realities and horrors of hoarding.

Eventually my property manager friend did use a professional junk removal company adept at hoarders junk removal. After the junk was hauled away he discovered serious damage to the unit and is currently spending the next three months repairing and refurbishing the unit.

One of more first experiences with hoarding was when I managed a apartment building in Northridge, California. It was about six months after the infamous Northridge Quake and I had to schedule inspections for all the units. I had this one tenant, a gentlemen in his late 30s, who absolutely would not allow us into his unit.  Eventually we had to essentially force an inspection and what we found was astonishing. A two bedroom unit stuffed to the rafters with collectibles, junk, trash, garbage. 

It took another two months of eviction proceedings to get that tenant out of his unit and weeks of hoarders junk removal and cleaning before that apartment in Northridge was fit to live in. 

So what do you do when you have a tenant that is a hoarder? First and foremost, inspect frequently and make sure your tenant is clear on the fact that hoarding is unacceptable. It’s harsh to say but tenants who hoard often don’t respond to mere suggestions that they should clean up. Oftentimes hoarders will only respond to threats of eviction. 

If you have a tenant that is hoarding and will not clean up you need to evict them immediately. Hoarding can do irreparable harm to an apartment unit if it isn’t dealt with. 

“It is six o’clock at night and I am watching the last junk removal truck pull away from a quiet neighborhood in Pacific Palisades. It is a small and wealthy community. My eyes are focused solely on the blue green dump truck disappearing over the horizon, towards the 405 and out of my life, but I can feel the eyes on me. Neighbors peaking out of their windows. Staring at me, judging me and my family. And inside I feel a deep pang of shame.

I never knew my Aunt well. I never knew her at all upon second thought. I saw her maybe three times in my adult life. The last time after I graduated film school at UCLA. Even in a family of oddball artists my family was one of the oddest balls. She was an isolated person who closed herself away from the rest of the world in her Pacific Palisade’s home. My aunt had done this ever since her husband (her second my “step uncle”) had died ten years ago.

I wasn’t shocked when my Mom called me and told me my Aunt had died. After a person reaches a certain age you begin to expect death. In the right sort of light you can see death waiting in the shadows and creeping around the corners. I was surprised however when I was tasked with cleaning up and clearing out my Aunt’s estate. I guess I received that honor because, being a film industry dreamer I don’t have a “real job” unlike the rest of my family, and I could take the time to do it.  

 I said yes. I didn’t want to but family obligation is a heavy thing to wear.

When I entered my Aunt’s house, the first person in my family to do so in maybe ten years, I realized I had crossed the line between family obligation into a whole other  world. The house was literally stuffed with, well, stuffed. Boxes were piled to the ceiling. Bloomingdales shopping bags and Macy’s shopping bags, filled with five year old new clothes, covered the living room. Maybe three feet high. The kitchen was even more of a horror. Appliances in various states of filthy and food in various states of decay covered the entire kitchen. The rest of the house … three bedrooms and a bathroom … were in mostly the same state. Mostly shopping bags filled with clothes and toys and random trinkets that had never been worn or used.

When I talked to my family about it, they refused to believe the obvious. That our Aunt, our crazy Aunt, was in fact a hoarder and that most of her behavior was either caused or the cause of her hoarding disorder. No one believed it until I took them to the house. Then it finally sank in.

Shortly thereafter it fell to me to find a junk removal company in Los Angeles that was qualified enough to clean out such an extensive hoard. We could have done it ourselves and a part of me felt like we were obligated to do it ourselves because we had so spectacularly let down my Aunt in her lie, the least we could do is help her clean up in death. But we didn’t. The shame and guilt swamped us and we pawned off the task to a company that tackled hoarders junk removal instead.

I stayed to supervised. I watched as that junk hauling company methodically cleaned out my Aunt’s house. And as I watched the last truck disappear in the distance all I could think was, We should have done better.”