Hoarder house : best next steps

[Jacob Galloway]

My brother and I are closing on a single-family house tomorrow morning, will be our fourth a deal together. The house is a nice little three-bedroom, we will likely be renting although flipping it for capital is not out of the question. Our first roadblock is that the family were hoarders. Not the extremely dirty, find a cat corpse type of hoarder, just an older couple that seems to keep every item they had ever owned.

There are several trailers or dumpsters worth of junk. The problem is as much of it is in good shape, there may be some small amount of value in the items for someone who does a resale. We obviously want to start the project of remodeling sooner rather than later but has anyone had any experience with a horde that probably has some cash value to the right people? Do we just have dumpsters come and fill them up to take to the landfill or is there someway to get some return on all of this?

My trash might be someone’s treasure 

[Lauren Kormylo]

Contact someone in your area who holds estate sales. They will tell you if any of it’s worth selling, and take care of it for you.