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Hoarding is classified as a mental health condition. As hoarding progresses, significant damage can occur at a person’s residence. Ultimately, the residence of a person with hoarding disorder becomes unlivable, indeed unsanitary, unhealthy, and unsafe. The physical structure of a house itself can become damaged and even unstable. Appliances and utilities tend to become nonoperational. Livable space within the property is eliminated. Moreover, the house becomes contaminated in a manner that results in a profound health risk to the occupant. Call our veteran-led hoarder cleanup services company.
You might feel like you are alone if you discover you have an adult sibling who hoards, but the fact is you are not. In the United States, there are somewhere between 5 and 14 million people afflicted with what medically is known as hoarding disorder. If you have an adult sibling suffering from hoarding…
The most commonplace type of eviction action, and the kind we all hear the most about, is that related to nonpayment of rent. The reality is that state law together with individual rental agreements permit other types of evictions as well. One of these types of evictions not involving a rent issue arises from a…
Hoarding is a disorder marked by individuals who are unwilling to relinquish possessions that would otherwise be viewed as without worth to most people. Because of this, hoarding often leads to a devastating cycle in the manner in which the hoarder refuses to part ways with items, and as a result, bombards their own living…
Animal hoarding impacts the quality of life and health of the animals themselves. Animal hoarding also affects the health of the person doing the hoarding. There are some specific health problems impacting humans who hoard animals. These include: Air quality issues Biohazard exposure Mildew, mold and other fungi Pest infestation Broken bones Illness from bites,…
In nearly all cases, a person who hoards animals is not able to break the cycle of accumulating inappropriately large numbers of animals on his or her own, according to the Mayo Clinic. An individual afflicted with hoarding disorder that includes amassing animals needs professional assistance as well. With that said, along with professional assistance,…
If you or a loved one are afflicted with hoarding disorder that involves animals – commonly called “animal hoarding” – recovery from this condition depends on a multifaceted approach. As part of the overall approach to recovering from animal hoarding, a person with the condition typically needs to undergo psychotherapy. There are a number of…
The number of people who hoard is higher than most people realize. This includes people who hoard animals. At this juncture in time in the United States, between two and six percent of the U.S. population are thought to hoard, according to the American Psychiatric Association. We also know that hoarding is more likely to…
A surprising number of people hoard, including individuals who hoard animals. In some cases, animal hoarding can go unnoticed to the proverbial outside world for at least some period. Ultimately, as time goes on and the number of animals being hoarded grows, others will become aware of what is going on. This includes neighbors of…
Animal hoarding is more commonplace in Southern California and across the United States than most people realize. There are a number of situations that can aggravate an animal hoarding situation. Among these scenarios involve unemployment and financial distress. Overview of the Essential Elements of Animal Hoarding Animal hoarding is defined as keeping a higher than…
Try as they may, landlords oftentimes are unable to seamlessly turn over a rental unit. When one tenancy comes to an end, a landlord doesn’t have another renter immediately in the offing ready to take over occupancy of a property. Indeed, there is a natural lag even when a subsequent tenant is identified due to…
Hoarding is a far more prevalent problem than people typically realize. Approximately one in 50 people will suffer from hoarding disorder at some juncture in their lives. If you discover that a person in your life is afflicted with hoarding disorder, you undoubtedly will want to be emotionally supportive of that individual. There are some…
If you are like many people, you have some familiarity with the term “hoarding.” You may have watched one or another of the television programs that feature hoarders. With that said, you may also be like many people and not have a complete, accurate understanding of what is meant by hoarding. Thus, a discussion of…
If you have a family member, a friend, or a rental unit tenant who is hoarding, you undoubtedly and understandably likely have a number of questions. At the top of the list of these questions is why do hoarders develop pathological relationships with objects and things? In order to have a clearer understanding of why…
With alarming regularity, landlords in Southern California and throughout the state, indeed across the United States, face situations involving hoarders living in their rental property. You may find yourself in this position, encountering a tenant who hoards. The stark reality is that hoarding can impact your investment or rental property in a number of ways…
Odds are that you’ve at least some knowledge about hoarding and hoarders. Over the course of the past 15 years, there have been television programs that feature people who hoard. In addition, the news media relatively regularly posts reports on hoarding and hoarders. With that noted, if you are like most people, you possess a…
If you discovered that you have a family member or friend with hoarding disorder in your life, you may sincerely want to know what should and should not do to assist that individual deal with their situation. The stark reality is that hoarding disorder is a complicated condition. Even a well-intentioned person like yourself is…
Hoarding disorder is thought to afflict somewhere in the neighborhood of 4 percent of the population in California and across the United States. At the present time, a considerable amount of research is focusing on how and why an individual develops hoarding disorder. There is a growing amount of evidence that for some people hoarding…
Many people are somewhat disorganized or are not perfect housekeepers. Being a bit disorganized or not having a spotless home can be the sign of nothing more serious that a person having a busy life. On the other hand, if clutter and mess in a house progresses, depending on the associated circumstances may rise to…
Hoarding can have absolutely devastating consequences, including untimely and even gruesome and unattended (or undiscovered) deaths of people who labor under this disorder. Sad and horrific deaths connected to a person’s hoarding condition have made headlines for generations. Two cases – one old and one new – demonstrate how dreadful can be the consequences of…
Ascertaining how many people in California and across the United States suffer from what medically is known as hoarding disorder is a challenging endeavor. The best estimate is that between 3 to 5 percent of the population of adults in the country suffer from hoarding disorder. Although some hoarders live in homes that they own,…
Hoarding is a recognized mental health disorder. Hoarding disorder is defined as a persistent challenge in discarding or letting go of possessions as the result of a perceived need to keep or save these items. An individual with hoarding disorder can experience extreme distress at the thought of having to get rid of accumulated items.…
Kirk Miller, DVM, is a veterinarian with expertise in dealing with cats and dogs that have been the victims of hoarding. Through his work, he has gained some important insights into the phenomena of animal hoarding. Through this article, we discuss: Overview of animal hoarding Impact of hoarding on pets and people Types of Animal…
Dr. Craig Sawchuk of the world-renowned Mayo Clinic is an authority on hoarding disorder, One area in which he focuses he works with clients and family members is appreciating when clutter has crossed the line and become hoarding. Understanding the difference between clutter and hoarding is imperative in order to take a proper approach to…
Like many individuals across the United States, you may have some understanding of hoarding, but have many questions about the condition all the same. One of the key questions that you might have is what are the causes of hoarding disorder in the first instance? This article is presented to provide you with essential information…
Hoarding is a more widespread issue in California and across than the United States than most people truly understand. You may have a family member or friend in your life that you feel may be hoarding. Having said that, if you are like most people, you really are not sure how to identify a hoarder.…
On the surface, hoarding appears to be a growing issue in this day and age. In other words, an ever-increasing number of people appear to be laboring under what technically is known as hoarding disorder. This perceived increase in the incidence of hoarding gives rise to the understandable question of what accounts for the apparent…
Less than a decade ago hoarding was classified as a specific mental health disorder. Prior to that time, hoarding was regarded as a type of obsessive-compulsive disorder or OCD. In essential terms, hoarding disorder is a mental health condition in which an individual is compelled to obtain and save an ever-increasing number of objects. This…
Hoarding is defined as a mental health condition in which a person accumulates a growing mass of items, objects which may have absolutely no value. A person with hoarding disorder becomes emotionally overwhelmed at the prospect of having to get rid of excessively accumulated items, even what can fairly be categorized as trash or garbage.…
On some level, hoarding can be considered something of cancer. Hoarding disorder is not akin to a heart attack in that it is not something that comes on suddenly. Rather, like cancer, hoarding disorder develops and becomes worse over time. Eventually, a person with severe hoarding disorder will have a house that cannot contain the…
There is nearly always work that must be done to a home to prepare it for sale and the marketplace. Even nothing else, some coordinated staging needs to be undertaken to make the interior appealing to prospective buyers. Some effort may be needed to up the curb appeal of a property to garner a prospective…
In so many different ways what occurs in the brick and mortar world is replicated in the digital sphere. Must of this digital duplication is positive. On the other hand, there are things that exist or occur in the “real world” that end up duplicated in some manner that prove to be less than positive.…
Over the past decade, there have been televisions broadcasts, including more than one TV series, that focused on the lives of hoarders, including people who engage in animal hoarding. Scenes of animal hoarding can be heart-wrenching and even gruesome. Like many people, you may wonder how animal hoarding habits develop in the first instance. While…
An estimated 5 percent of the U.S. population is thought to be afflicted with hoarding disorder to some degree. The problem with this statistic is that hoarding oftentimes is a hidden condition that even people with connections to a hoarder lack of knowledge. Nonetheless, you may have a family member or other individual in your…
Like a considerable number of people, you may face an ever-increasing number of items in your home. In other words, you may be heading towards issues with clutter in your residence. As a consequence, you now desire to understand what you can do to prevent the accumulation of clutter. You may even desire to know…
When people read or hear the name Jackie Kennedy or Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, they think of the former First Lady of the United States. They think of a woman renowned for elegance and style. What nearly no one thinks of when Jackie Kennedy is brought up is extreme hoarding. The reality is that after her…
Thanks in part to a number of relatively popular television programs featuring people who hoard, hoarding has become widely known by people across Southern California, and elsewhere in the country, even without any direct contact with an actual hoarder. On the other hand, each and every day, people in Southern California encounter situations in which…
Perhaps the only thing more frustrating for a landlord than the legal process of evicting a tenant is eviction clean out once the renter is removed from the rental property. The unfortunate reality is that a tenant who fails to pay rent or violates other lease terms is highly likely to leave the rental property…
Animal hoarding is a mental health disorder marked by a pervasive and persistent need to accumulate inappropriate numbers of animals, according to the Mayo Clinic. The behavior is accompanied by an inability to part with these animals. Cleaning up an animal hoarder’s house can be a daunting and dangerous task. There is no clear data…
Up until 2013, hoarding was considered a type of obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD. In 2013, hoarding was classified as a specific mental health condition, separate and apart from OCD. Hoarding disorder, as the condition technically is called, is defined as a persistent inability to part with possessions due to a perceived need to save them.…
Pets or companion animals truly are like family for many people. Some people have a proverbial “house full” of pets, a situation which begs the question of “how many pets are too many?” In other words, when does the population of pets in a person’s home reach the point that an individual can be considered…
When your parents pass away, you undoubtedly will have a good many questions. Some of these questions will center around what happens to your parents’ home after they have passed on. There are a number of factors to take into consideration regarding your parents’ residence after they have died. The Probate Process The California probate…
When adult children face the death of a parent, they confront planning a funeral, making burial arrangements, and dealing with the probate process. What a surprising number of adult children also confront is the shocking revelation that a parent had been hoarding to an unimaginable extent. The situation becomes even more untenable if a deceased…
Animal hoarding exists when a person houses more animals than he or she appropriately can provide care, according to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals or ASPCA. Animal hoarding is a type of a more broadly defined mental health condition called hoarding disorder, according to the world-renowned Mayo Clinic. A complex issue, animal hoarding…
The Institute for Challenging Disorganization, or ICD, created the Clutter-Hoarding Scale to be used as a tool to assess residential environments in regard to the level or extent of hoarding that may exist in the premises. The Clutter-Hoarding Scale is designed for residential assessments only. Five Levels of the Clutter-Hoarding Scale The Clutter-Hoarding Scale is organized into…
Hoarding is defined by the world-renowned Mayo Clinic as a disorder exemplified by a persistent difficulty discarding or parting with possessions. The difficulty in discarding arises from a perceived need to save these items, even if they have no real value or purpose. A person suffering from hoarding disorder experiences what can be significant distress at the…
Hoarding, or hoarding disorder, is defined as a persistent or profound difficulty in discarding, eliminating, or parting with possessions, according to the Mayo Clinic. A person is unable to part with certain possessions, even those with no value because they strongly feel a perceived need to keep and maintain these items. Over time, an excessive accumulation…
Chronic hoarding is defined as the persistent difficulty or inability to discard or part with possessions of different types. In many cases, items which are hoarded can have no value and may even be no more than what otherwise might be classified as garbage. How Many People Hoard? The reality is that no precise measurement…
Introduction to the World of a Cat Hoarder Margaret is a 60-something-year-old woman who lives in an affluent neighborhood in suburban Denver, Colorado. Her house sits on an acre lot in a tiny part if the metro area called Cherry Hills. Residences in the area easily go for a minimum selling price of $1 million.…
If you have come to realize a person in your life suffers from hoarding disorder, you are well ahead of many individuals who have a family member or close friend who hoards. One of the realities associated with hoarding is that majority of people afflicted with this disorder hide their situation from others, including family…
One of the challenges you face in the aftermath of organizing a deceased person’s usable property after death is trying to figure out what to do with it. You may want or be able to use some of the items you discover in the process of cleaning up after a person’s resident after he or…
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