Room-by-Room Clearing
Usually the least personal rooms first
The whole house worked through in a sequence you set, not all at once.
Estate Cleanouts in Central Kentucky
Clearing a home after a death, at the pace the family needs and in the order the court expects. Nobody wants to be doing this, and the legal sequencing makes it worse if you get it the wrong way round.
- We do not remove anything of value until the inventory is filed
- Room by room, so you can list what you need to list
- Out of state? We quote from photos and send photos of every finished room
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Clear the house in the wrong order and you create a problem
Almost every page about estate cleanouts talks about sensitivity. Very few talk about sequencing, which is the part that actually costs an executor money.
90
Days a Kentucky personal representative has to file the estate inventory, and it was sixty until 2026
Kentucky Revised Statutes, KRS 395.250, inventory required, as amended 2026
Nothing happens before the appointment. Kentucky provides that “every fiduciary, before entering upon the execution of the trust, shall receive letters of appointment from the District Court”, and that the appointment takes effect on the order being signed, any required bond presented, and the oath administered or declaration filed. Until then, nobody has authority to remove anything.
Then the inventory, within ninety days. The statute requires the personal representative “to file an inventory no later than ninety (90) days from the time of qualifying as personal representative”, valued as at the date of death and placed under seal. Check that figure against anything else you read: it was sixty days until the 2026 amendment, and a great deal of guidance still says sixty.
Which is why we work room by room. The order that works is: appointment, then walk the house and list what has value, then clear the rest. A cleanout company that arrives and empties everything in a day has not saved you anything if the inventory still has to be compiled from memory.
And the genuinely worthless bulk is a different question. The same chapter lets a personal representative “abandon personal property when, in the opinion of the personal representative, it is valueless.” That opinion is yours to hold. It is also, in practice, most of what we carry out.
This is a plain-English summary of Kentucky statute, not legal advice, and we are not lawyers. The District Court in the county where the estate is administered, and your own attorney, are the authorities on your estate. What we can promise is the sequencing: we will not remove anything of value before you have listed it.
What an estate cleanout involves
Most of this job is the sorting rather than the carrying, which is the opposite of every other cleanout on this site.
Sorting & Set-Aside
Keep, sell, donate, discard
Anything being kept, appraised or sold identified and separated before anything leaves.
Furniture & Large Items
Narrow stairs are the usual problem
Beds, wardrobes, pianos and the things one person cannot move.
Garages, Attics & Basements
Where the volume actually is
The spaces that hold thirty years of storage.
Broom-Clean Finish
What the agent needs
The property left clear and swept, ready for sale or handover.
Haul-Away & Disposal
Priced in, not added at the end
Everything cleared is loaded and taken away by us.
What estate cleanouts costs
Published ranges, because almost nobody in this market will give you a number before a site visit. You get a firm figure before anything starts and only pay for work completed.
A partial clear
$280 to $520
One or two rooms, a garage, or the bulk removed after the family has taken what it wants.
Most of a property
$520 to $850
The common job: a house cleared with some sorting as we go.
A whole property
$850 to $1,280+
A full house or apartment cleared to broom-clean, including the outbuildings.
- How much there is
- Volume first, as on every cleanout. Photos from each doorway settle it.
- How much sorting
- Clearing is quick. Sorting is not, and it is the difference between the tiers.
- The house itself
- Stairs, an attic, a basement and a narrow hall all lengthen the carry.
- The timing
- Whether we work around an inventory and a family, or clear in one visit.
These are Crown’s own published cleanout ranges, split across the tiers people ask in. An estate that is mostly one packed garage is priced as a garage cleanout instead.
How estate cleanouts works
Four steps, no obligation, and you only pay for work completed.
Photos in, price back
Photos from each doorway and the address. You get a number back within two hours, guaranteed, and the visit can wait as long as you need.
The keep-list
You tell us what is being kept, appraised or sold. We write it into the quote so nothing depends on somebody remembering on the day.
Room by room
Worked in the order you set. You do not have to be there, and if you would rather not be, that is completely normal.
Swept, and photographed
The property left clear and swept, with photos of every room if you are not local.
What Our Customers Say
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Estate Cleanouts across Central Kentucky
Based in Lexington, working the counties around it. Send the address rather than the town: access decides more than distance on most of these jobs.
The questions we get asked
Answered properly rather than deflected to a phone call.
Not sure it’s this job?
Send two or three photos. If it is really a different service we will say so and point you at the right page. It costs you nothing either way.
Send photos insteadWhen am I actually allowed to clear the house?
Not before your appointment as personal representative is complete: Kentucky provides that a fiduciary must receive letters of appointment from the District Court before acting, and that the appointment is effective on the judge signing the order, the bond being presented where one is required, and the oath being administered or the declaration filed. Before that you have no authority over the property at all. After it, the constraint is the inventory rather than the clearing, which is the section above.
What is the inventory, and how long do I have?
Kentucky requires the personal representative to file an inventory and appraisement of the estate’s property with the District Court, under seal. The deadline is ninety days from qualifying, and this is worth checking against anything else you read, because it was sixty days until 2026 and a great deal of published guidance, including some official self-help material, has not caught up. The practical consequence is simple: get the valuable property listed before it leaves the house.
Can I throw away things that are obviously worthless?
Kentucky’s statute on what a personal representative may properly do includes abandoning personal property when, in the representative’s opinion, it is valueless, so yes, and that is most of what a cleanout actually removes. The judgement is yours rather than ours. What we will not do is make that call for you on anything that looks like it might matter; we set it aside and ask.
The estate is not settled yet. Does the house have to stay full?
No. Creditors have six months from the appointment of the personal representative to present claims, and a settlement cannot normally be filed before that six months is up, but that is about the estate’s accounts rather than the contents of the house. Once the inventory is filed there is usually no reason the property cannot be cleared and listed. A great many families sit in a full house for six months because nobody told them the two clocks are separate.
How much does an estate cleanout cost?
A partial clear is $280 to $520, most of a property $520 to $850, and a whole property $850 to $1,280 and up. Those are Crown’s own published cleanout figures. The thing that moves an estate job inside the range more than volume does is how much sorting you want us to do rather than how much there is.
Which areas do you serve?
Lexington and the surrounding counties: Lexington, Georgetown, Nicholasville, Richmond, Frankfort, Winchester, Versailles and Paris. The ZIP codes are listed above. Out-of-state executors are a normal part of this work, so say so when you ask and we will build the photo check-ins into the job rather than leaving you to chase them.
Get a price on an estate cleanout
Photos from each doorway and the address. There is no rush on our side: send them whenever you are ready, and tell us if you are working to a court date.
- Quotes guaranteed within 2 hours, 8am to 6pm, Monday to Saturday
- Free and no obligation. You only pay for completed work
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