Hoarding disorder is a recognized mental health condition, not a character flaw. A hoarded home usually builds up over years, often after a loss, an illness or a move. By the time someone calls us, there are real safety problems: blocked exits, fire load, pests, animal waste, spoiled food and sometimes structural damage. Our hoarding cleanup in Fort Myers is built to fix those problems without shaming the person who lives there.
Discreet hoarding cleanup services
Privacy matters on these jobs. Neighbors in a Fort Myers subdivision, a Cape Coral canal street or a North Fort Myers 55+ community notice trucks and dumpsters. On request we arrive in unmarked vehicles, keep the dumpster time short, and don't discuss the job with anyone outside the family. What happens in the house stays there.
How a hoarder house cleaning works
- Plan first. We walk the home with you or your family, identify safety hazards and agree on goals: full cleanout, partial clearing, or making the home safe and livable.
- Sort, don't sweep. Everything is sorted into keep, donate, recycle and dispose. Cash, jewelry, photos, documents, firearms and medications are set aside. We find valuables in almost every hoarded home.
- Clean what's underneath. Once items are out, the real cleanup begins. Rodent droppings, animal urine and feces, mold and spoiled food are handled as biohazards, with PPE, disinfection and removal of saturated flooring where needed.
- Hand it back safe. Clear pathways, working kitchen and bathroom, deodorized and sanitized. We can recommend local trades for repairs.
Animal hoarding and heavy contamination
Animal hoarding often leaves deep urine saturation in subfloors and walls, and ammonia levels that make the air unsafe. We handle that with the same Category 3 methods we use for sewage cleanup, including rodent dropping removal done so hantavirus-carrying dust doesn't get stirred up. If a death happened in a hoarded home, our unattended death cleanup team works alongside the cleanout crew.
Who we work with
We work with adult children cleaning out a parent's home, estate executors and probate attorneys, landlords and property managers facing a lease violation, and people who have decided they want help. We can also coordinate with Lee County code enforcement or Adult Protective Services when a case already involves them. We serve Fort Myers, Cape Coral, Lehigh Acres and North Fort Myers.
Technician insight
The deciding factor in a successful hoarding cleanup is almost never the volume of stuff. It's whether the person living there feels respected. We slow down in the first hour so the rest of the job goes faster.
Hoarding Cleanup Services We Offer
✓Hoarder House Cleanout
Full or partial cleanout with item-by-item sorting and removal.
✓Animal Hoarding Cleanup
Removal of animal waste, urine-saturated materials and odor, with pathogen control.
✓Estate & Probate Cleanouts
Organized cleanouts for executors and families, with valuables and documents recovered and inventoried.
✓Rental & Landlord Hoarding Cleanup
Unit restoration after hoarding, documented for deposits, insurance or legal proceedings.
✓Donation & Recycling Coordination
Usable items go to local charities and recyclers instead of the landfill wherever possible.
Pricing
Hoarding cleanup cost depends on home size, the volume of items (often measured in dumpster loads), biohazard level and how much sorting the family wants. We give a written estimate after the walkthrough and can phase work to fit a budget.