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The Hoarding Truth

June 14, 2013

The Hoarding Truth

The truth about hoarding is that it is a nasty and very tiring job. Sometimes our crew will have to deal with many different kinds of feces, questionable materials and even animal carcasses. While not a pretty sight or great smelling for that matter, our crew will take care of your hoarding task with ease and professionalism. Under these conditions any normal person would crack and refuse to want to get the job done but our professional crew is trained and ready to handle this job. Our junk removal team is great under pressure and in these conditions is when they excel. Working as a team they can handle and take care of the worst hoarding situations imaginable.

So give a call to the great Junk Removal Services group and get your task done on time and under budget.

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How to remove a hoarder from your rental property

June 13, 2013

How to remove a hoarder from your rental property

While removing an actual person from your property can be harder than it seems there are steps you can take to legally save yourself the hassle of having to evict a hoarder because of a foul smell or junk trash on your property. You can always write up a rental agreement that will only last for 6 months and see if the tenant will keep your property in good standing order. Whenever you are dealing with new tenants it is always best to do a background check and make sure that they are trouble free and left their previous lease on good terms. You can request contact details for tenants that have lived on another property before and give that property manager or supervisor a call to see what the situation for them leaving was. This is always a good idea to follow especially when you have a brand new property that has either just been remodeled or newly built.

Another option would be to take legal steps and get the city involved if the hoarder refuses to clean up their junk and get a junk removal company to help out. The city will usually not want to have properties that are not up to code visually and may be hazardous to the actual renter or the community at large. You can Google more steps online because really, i am out of ideas.

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Hoarding Clean Up

June 11, 2013

Hoarding clean up is one of the most difficult jobs that any Junk removal Company can service. Sometimes you are stuck in middle with a sibling or parent that just wants to get all that junk and the person with the hoarding tendencies. In order to please both of them you must be compassionate and have empathy for the situation. You cannot be callous and cold like the items that you are about to remove.

When faced with this problem, a great Junk removal Company can really make a difference. They will have the patience and the experience to deal with the situation and get the job done on time. Hoarding Clean Up has been portrayed as a filthy job on numerous cable television shows, and it is! But you are also not shown the humanity of the situation which is where a great Junk Removal Company would come in.

With years of experience in this situation, one of the best hoarding clean up junk removal services company is located within your area in the Los Angeles and San Fernando Valley areas. Do not hesitate to contact them and inform them of your situation.

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“Lighten Up!” a Hoarders Conference

June 7, 2013

What is the fascination with people and ‘Hoarding’ shows? We are not sure but you can rest assured that it is of no entertaining value. People with hoarding deficiencies should be treated with medical and physiological help in order to help them improve upon this harmful tendency. Luckily, there is more and more help becoming available to people that like to hoard junk and debris and live in a life of filth. This coming Friday there will be a hoarding conference in the city of Dallas Texas. this conference will bring together some of the most well known speakers on this subject. The conference cost is a minimal fee of $25 to the public and professionals alike.

Lighten Up! is the name of the conference and some of the speakers who will be attending are:

Jennifer Owns- An attorney who deals with property management owners and advises them on how to best deal with a hoarder.

Peggy McMahon- An author, clinical psychologist and researcher on the subject.

Cory Chalmers- Founder of Steri-Clean Inc and regular personality featured on A&E’s “Hoarders” television series.

Sponsorship of this even has been provided by are Senior Living Realty, Windsor Senior Living, CNC Home Care, Green Oaks Hospital-McKinney, the Apartment Association of Greater Dallas and BioOne Recovery.

The Lighten Up! hoarding conference will take place at: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday at Methodist Hospital’s Hitt Auditorium, 1441 N. Beckley Ave. in Dallas.

This conference is aimed at informing loved ones and relatives of people with the hoarding disorder.

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5 Ways to Recognize Hoarding

June 4, 2013

Hoarding is sometimes hard to recognize. People often confuse being messy with being a hoarder, or vice versa. People often make excuses for hoarders or they tend to ignore the problem altogether. “She’s not a hoarder!” I once heard a cousin of a hoarder declare, “She’s just artistic!” 

Hoarding is not a problem that should be ignored or written off as “being messy” or “being unusual”. Here are five warning signs:

1. Collecting Odd Items, Junk, and Trash 

If a person goes out of their way to collect items that are broken beyond repair, serve no real use, or that are simply trash is a very large warning sign that someone is hoarding. Dragging garbage out of a dumpster or off a curbside and bringing it into a house is not normal behavior for any person.

2. Inability to Throwaway Items

Throwing things away is part of our every day life. We throw away garbage, trash, and broken items every day. But a hoarder often times can’t throw anything away.  They’ll make excuses, “Oh I’ll fix that toaster.” They’ll rationalize, “But this food isn’t spoiled!” And a lot of times hoarders will simply refuse to throw anything away. 

3. Distancing Oneself from Friends and Family

Hoarders often feel great shame about their hoarding behavior. They are often so ashamed of their hoarding they refuse to let anyone into their homes. Frequently hoarders cut themselves off from friends and family. And they’ll also use every opportunity to avoid having visitors inside their homes.

4. Collecting Too Many Animals

Does a person have a lot of cats or dogs? Ten or twenty? Do they all seem cared for or do they seem left to fend for themselves? Animal collection or animal hoarding is a very serious sign of hoarding. Animal hoarding should be reported to your local animal control or ASPCA.

5. Parts of a Home Become Unusable  

Hoarders can fill up rooms and rooms with junk and trash. Are their parts of a house that have been rendered unlivable and un-passable by accumulation of junk? This is a sure sign that you are dealing with a hoarder who has a very advanced hoarding problem.

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Animal Hoarding

May 21, 2013

Animal hoarding is probably the best known form of hoarding. The news is often littered with lurid headlines about cats or dogs found in squalid conditions. Animal hoarding is also one of the cruelest forms of hoarding. Innocent animals are often often kept in squalid, abusive conditions where they suffer and often times die.

So what can you do to stop animal hoarding?

The biggest thing you can do to stop animal hoarding is to say something. If you find a relative or friend who is hoarding animals report them immediately to the local ASPCA and your city animal control. People are often reluctant to report animal hoarding because hoarders tend to cloak their sick behavior  with a veneer of love. “Oh, we’re running an animal rescue.” or “Well, if you call the ASPCA all these animals will be put to sleep!” 

Remember animal hoarding is cruel, far crueler than turning those same animals over to the ASPCA. Animal hoarding destroys lives and harms animals. Don’t be silent. Speak out and report animal hoarding today.

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Storage Unit Hoarding

May 16, 2013

Most people think of hoarding as a problem confined just to homes or apartments. But oftentimes hoarding can extend past the home into other facets of life. Many hoarders hide their hoarding or extend their hoarding by storing junk, trash, and garbage in storage units. Units because its rare to see a hoarder with just a single storage unit. Multiple units are the norm. And the final results of hoarding are just as destructive.

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. 

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Should You Clean Out a Hoarder’s House Yourself?

May 13, 2013

A property manager I know quite well bumped into me at a coffee shop a couple days. He was pretty distressed so I sat down with him. He recently completed a lengthy eviction process with a tenant who was hoarding and had been hoarding for some time. This particular tenant was extremely mentally ill and turned violent when confronted. Eventually he managed to get her evicted but now he was facing a n apartment unit that was filled almost to the ceiling with junk.

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.

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What is the Difference Between Messy and Hoarding?

May 9, 2013

Thanks in large part of cable television shows that have popularized and to some extent confused hoarding as mental illness many wonder where the line is between messy and clinical hoarding. So what is the difference? Is there a difference? And are you just messy or are you hoarding?

Hoarding is a compulsion to accumulate things. Often things of little or no value. Hoarders often have a difficult time parting with objects even though they don’t use them or don’t need them. Hoarding also causes significant stress and lead to delusional thinking about one’s possession.

While disorganization and “being messy” can be part of hoarding, being disorganized doesn’t  necessarily mean you suffer from hoarding.

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Apartment Hoarders in Northridge

May 3, 2013

When you think of hoarders you normally picture a house stuffed with junk. Someone who is elderly and sick, refusing to let go of a lifetime of clutter. But hoarding is a broader problem that effects more than just the elderly and can happen in apartments too. 

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. 

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