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[quote=Anonymous]Okay, I see it differently. Using an estate sale company allows you to get the house cleaned out and the stuff they sell partially pays for the getting the house cleared.

We had a  borderline hoarder situation with a relative and interviewed a couple of companies to do the job.  With the amount they would have given us for the stuff they could sell, the total for what we would pay them to empty the house was pretty reasonable.

Unfortunately, the executor refused to entertain the thought of hiring a company because she wanted to do it all herself to save money. It ended up being a crazy mess because she didn’t know what she was doing and how to go about such a big job. The estate ended up paying much more than it would have cost to bring a professional organization in to do it. Talk about being penny wise and pound foolish.

Takeaway- be careful who you allow to be executor of your estate! If someone is not handling their own life very well, they probably won’t do a good job with tying up the loose ends of someone else’s life either. 
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