Home Organizing Services
Dealing with a lifetime of accumulated belongings would be an overwhelming task for any of us.
A trained professional can help bring clarity to the situation, greatly reduce the amount of time spent on this incredibly daunting task, and lower your stress in the process.
SilverLeaf 365 Settle-in Service
Unpacking can be overwhelming. Our settle-in-service focuses on getting the core living areas of your home unpacked and set up on the first day you move in. We focus on the bedroom, bathroom and kitchen first. We then go to work on getting the living areas set up so by the end of the first day you are pretty much all settled in.
Our settle in service provides a professional home organizer who will spend a day helping you get settled into your new home. Service includes:
unpack immediate items (kitchen, bathroom and bedroom)
set up and organize your items
hang pictures
make beds
set up electronics
SilverLeaf 365 Personal Property Inventory Audit
Having everything broken down to a simple list makes the decision-making process easier. We will arrange for a professional home organizer to spend a day going through the home and documenting each major item into a Home Inventory list so decisions can be made as to what to keep, sell, donate and dispose of.
A Personal Property Inventory Audit includes both a written (Home Inventory List) and a video record of all the major items in the home. Share the list with family members to make decisions about what to:
Keep
Sell
Donate
Dispose
Keep the Home Inventory List and video record for documentation for future legal and tax needs
SilverLeaf 365 Floor planning service
Floor planning is taking the floor plans offered by the Senior Housing Community and making sure your belongings fit appropriately.
You can make sure your furniture and appliances will fit in your new home, and see how they will be arranged.
SilverLeaf 365 Sorting and Tagging Service
Once decisions have been made as to where everything in the home is going, let us do the tedious work of sorting and tagging it all so it can be distributed. We will arrange for a professional home organizer who, using the Home Inventory list will spend a day sorting and tagging personal property items to be kept, sold, donated or disposed.
Sorting of the Items – Using the Home Inventory List for reference, the items will be sorted into the four categories; items to be kept, items to be sold, items to be donated and items to be disposed of. We recommend that these items be physically separated as they are sorted into either different rooms or areas of the home. Having them in different areas makes pick up easier.
Tagging – Tagging labels can be either color coordinated stick on labels or custom printed labels, such as Avery labels #5164. As the items are identified as they are sorted they will be tagged and placed with other similarly tagged items.
Keep – Items to be kept are generally the first to be identified and packed up. Items recommended to be kept include:
Personal items should be boxed up and gone through off site at the family’s leisure. This is a category that can slow the removal process down considerably if done on property. Also, decisions to “just throw it all away” are sometimes made to hurry the process along may be regrettable in the future.
Photographs and mementos
Financial and legal records such as bank statements, tax returns etc.…
Items of value to family and friends that are to be packed and moved together or shipped individually. Items that are to be removed prior to packing should be further separated and removed from the property ASAP so that they don’t become comingled with the items that are to be packed.
Questionable items should be packed up to be considered later. There is no hurry to make decisions on items where you are unsure. Better to be on the side of caution and keep these to be decided at some point in the future.
Sell – Items to be sold locally will typically fall into two categories; items of obvious value that can be sold as stand-alone items in an auction or by a broker and items of some value that may be sold at a tag sale.
Items of obvious value should be removed from the property at this point so that they can be placed with a local broker, etc. Often a broker will provide an appraisal of the item to confirm the value of it.
If the family prefers to have these items sold locally to where they live, then move these items to the Keep section so they can be packed up to be moved or shipped accordingly.
Items of some value that may be sold at a tag sale include:
items that cost more than they are worth to ship (furniture in good condition)
items that the family has decided it doesn’t need more of (pots and pans, flat ware, dishes, etc…)
items that don’t suit their taste
Charity –Once the items of value have been sorted into the Keep and Sell categories mentioned above, anything of value left should be designated to be donated. Most charities will come directly to the property and collect marked bags or boxes. If you are planning on having a tag sale consider having your charity of choice come to collect after the sale so that the remaining items can be donated at the same time.
Disposal – Have SilverLeaf 365 arrange for a roll off dumpster to be delivered to the property prior to the start of the sorting process. Working through the process of sorting (as detailed above) anything not of value should be disposed of ASAP. Having the property cleared of disposal items will make the packing, selling and charity coordination run a lot smoother.
