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I am not a hoarder, that's the beauty of residing in an apt.
There is no place to put anything ,so you don't bring anything home.

A guy that lived in a unit of my condo was a hoarder. There was only a narrow aisle through his living room. I’d guess his other rooms were the same, but I’d never seen those.

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Originally posted by bendable:
So, if I croak question.

I am in a two bed rm. Apt.on the second floor.

Bonnie can't clean this place out, no way.

I have no family here.y concern is ,
I don't want the landlord to have to deal with
Getting stuff gone.
I've been here 22 years.


I am contemplating entering a contract with
someone to get all the stuff gone, somewhere.
Be it garage sale , dump, goodwill , I won't care.


What would you do? P.s.
Nothing of. value involved .

Gotta get rid of 2 dozen cans of ammo. That's about it .

You could give whoever is going to do it a head start by decluttering while you’re still alive and strong enough.

My mom died and it took three weekends and a lot of help to clear out her apartment before the month end besides dealing with all the arrangements with her death.

We didn’t save anything, everything went to the dump in several trips including antique sewing machines which the dump people scraffed up.

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Originally posted by 229DAK:


The time for the will to get sorted out and, for example, the landlord to get paid to clean out an apartment, could be a while. All that time the landlord is losing rent money.

Wouldn't it take a lot longer if there were no will, with no direction to whom the funds are disbursed?

Just to complicate things furthers. What if Bonnie leaves or passes before you? How would the person who you have contract with be notified of your death? There could also be issues with the landlord allowing a third party to enter the apartment after your death.

This may be as simple as you giving your landlord $500 bucks now and say throw all my stuff out when I die.

Here is the best thing you can do for those you leave behind.

1. Liquidate all your stuff, you know what's what and what's got value.

2. Take the proceeds and buy index funds.

You've now created generational wealth, and basically set up your descendants for retirement. Congratulations.

If it were me I would begin the process of cleaning out now. There are services that will do that as a fee. If you have nothing of value there are churches, good will that will help you. If there are things of value begin transferring those things now. We had a service that cleared out our FIL house after he passed. They did it for a fee and had a n auction house sell items. What was made at the auction paid the fee and anything left was suppose to transfer back. Be careful however we heard later that they were seen at the scrap metal place with buckets of copper that my FIL had from plumbing jobs he did. $$$ that the service didn’t have inventoried.

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Originally posted by FenderBender:
1. Liquidate all your stuff, you know what's what and what's got value.

2. Take the proceeds and buy index funds.

You've now created generational wealth, and basically set up your descendants for retirement. Congratulations.

You must have better "stuff" than me!
Generational wealth???

Well I mentioned my situation to a neighbor , my hair cutter gal and someone at church .

All three said they would do it , two of them said they wouldn't take pay

.

All I have to do is draw up the papers.

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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:
Replying to lyman, two above.

All of my close relatives are in Missouri. It would burden them to come to San Diego to get my ammo.

They’ll like the cash though.

with respect, I think you missed the part where wells fargo had us pick the ammo up, and sign an affidavit that we had it destroyed,
we gave it to the local police (small town) who signed the affidavit too,


no money involved, or made from that deal, re the ammo, they did pay me for my time and the trip out to the house



I hope the folks you have chosen do better for you

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Re: “I think you missed the part where wells fargo had us pick the ammo up, and sign an affidavit that we had it destroyed,
we gave it to the local police (small town) who signed the affidavit too,”

I didn’t see that in your post. Old eyes, I guess. I did see:

“I would suggest, based on my experiences with them, to have your kin folk come get all your ammo”

I was responding to that.

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Originally posted by sig2392:
My aunt and uncle lived in a 800 sq ft apartment for decades.

When they died I filled up a dumpster with just crap.

On the outside the place looked neat and clean.

Every nook and cranny, closets, cabinets under the bed was fill with stuff.

It took weeks to empty it.

Everything had to be gone through.

I am starting now to get rid of stuff so my son does not have to.

There are estate sale/liquidators that will handle it all.

I would interview a bunch now and give Bonnie a list and not worry about it.

There is at least a half dozen or more listed in your area.

I would talk to a lot of them as you do not know who will be in business when the time comes.

That would drive me bonkers. A cluttered house leaves a cluttered mind.

Why not be realistic about what you will personally use and then sell the rest of it. What’s the worst that could happen. So you sell a couple boxes too much of ammo. Just go out and buy two new boxes with the money from the sales of your recent ammo when you want to go shooting.

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Originally posted by Georgeair:

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Originally posted by FenderBender:
1. Liquidate all your stuff, you know what's what and what's got value.

2. Take the proceeds and buy index funds.

You've now created generational wealth, and basically set up your descendants for retirement. Congratulations.

You must have better "stuff" than me!
Generational wealth???

What are you holding on to a bunch of crap for in that case?

L, I hope all is well with you and the "when I croak" is a long ways off and you are just wanting to be prepared when that inevitable time comes.

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Originally posted by old rugged cross:
L, I hope all is well with you and the "when I croak" is a long ways off and you are just wanting to be prepared when that inevitable time comes.

This!

There's a good book on decluttering called, Let It Go. Many of us have a ton of stuff that we must undoubtedly be saving for the person that will have to do our estate clearing.

Go ahead and get rid of the junk and then move everything else to a storage unit. When you die and quit paying the bill, they’ll auction it off or trash it.

Except for the necessary paper work ,I think my
problem is solved.

Two people have offered to get the stuff gone for
me. The neighbor across the hall and my barber.

They say they will do it gratis, but I am going
to set funds aside, in case they need it.

Got Junk was not interested in the least, but they
refered me to a guy that would do it.

Thanks a bunch for those choosing to assist.

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Originally posted by sigfreund:
As I recall I looked for "estate liquidators" to find the services. It may be a little more complicated to arrange before one dies himself, but worth considering.

Be EXTREMELY careful arranging for something like that.

As executor of my dad's estate, my brother did that, not looking at the fine print, and his liquidators chosen date hit for the sale happened to be during a major SW Michigan lake effect snowstorm and they wouldn't change the date. And of course, nobody came.

Why not? Because of the fine print...they were essentially given title to all the stuff, and guaranteed a minimum level of proceeds. Nobody comes, that's fine for them - they got it all for nothing, didn't even have to staff and hold an auction. After the snow was cleared, they just sent people to take the contents of the house, and then sent the estate the bill for the minimum proceeds. So, it cost the estate money to give all my dad's stuff away.

Now, my brother was no genius, and, yes, if the weather had not been an issue it wouldn't have mattered. The point is, there are fine print details to read and understand, and there are those in that industry (and other industries, to be sure) who put traps in the fine print.

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Originally posted by FenderBender:
What are you holding on to a bunch of crap for in that case?

It's an interesting human psychology. I guess we get comfort and security with our accumulated stuff. My mom is 94 and lives in her fully furnished house. All the various art and doodads collected over the decades are on display. There are rooms she rarely goes into. I, of course, have all the tools I've ever acquired, including specialty tools that will never be needed again.

I guess we like to think the objects we emotionally value will be valued by our heirs.

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Originally posted by Fly-Sig:

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Originally posted by FenderBender:
What are you holding on to a bunch of crap for in that case?

It's an interesting human psychology. I guess we get comfort and security with our accumulated stuff. My mom is 94 and lives in her fully furnished house. All the various art and doodads collected over the decades are on display. There are rooms she rarely goes into. I, of course, have all the tools I've ever acquired, including specialty tools that will never be needed again.

I guess we like to think the objects we emotionally value will be valued by our heirs.

I certainly understand the sentiment, how do you feel about your grandfathers favorite buggy whip?