Losing a loved one is hard. Managing everything that comes next shouldn't be.
When you're grieving, the practical responsibilities that follow a death can feel overwhelming — sorting through a lifetime of belongings, preparing a home for sale, coordinating with lawyers and accountants, and meeting your obligations as executor or trustee. You don't have to carry it alone.
We provide calm, respectful support to help families, executors, and trustees through estate transitions — one step at a time. Referred by estate lawyers and working under your direction, we handle the details with compassion and clarity so you can focus on what matters most.
We work under your direction and in alignment with legal guidance, offering practical help when it's needed most. As a neutral, professional third party, we can:
Coordinate access to the property
Manage timelines and next steps
Organize estate contents
Coordinate trusted service providers
Communicate with third-party law and tax professionals on your behalf
Provide guidance in your role as executor, including managing beneficiaries
Sorting through a loved one's belongings is one of the most emotionally demanding parts of settling an estate. Our team handles it thoughtfully and on your schedule, including:
Thoughtful sorting and organizing
Donation coordination
Auction and resale preparation and execution
Removal of unwanted items
Final clearout and cleaning coordination
If the estate includes real property, we offer seamless support from preparation through to sale. Our services may include:
Decluttering and organization
Opinion of Value for probate
Cleaning and staging coordination
Minor improvements and repairs
Real estate listing and sale support
Ongoing property oversight
Because our team includes licensed Real Estate professionals, we can guide the property from first walk-through to closing — without you needing to coordinate multiple vendors.
When estate contents are to be sold, we help make the process clear and manageable. We assist with:
Auction coordination though our partners at MaxSold, execution, and item pickup
Referrals for valuation when needed
Cataloguing and documentation support for estate records
Removal of unwanted items
Shipping of items to beneficiaries
Every estate is unique, and needs vary with each family. We can also coordinate:
Landscaping and property maintenance
Gathering and organizing documents required to close out the estate
Communication with third-party law and tax professionals
Ongoing guidance as you carry out your role as executor
Settling an estate often involves upfront costs before funds become available. To ease the financial burden during this transition, we offer interim funding options. You don't pay anything out of your pocked until the home closes. Our fees, and any 3rd party expenses will be covered from the proceeds of the sale. Click here to learn more.
A typical estate unfolds over 12 to 18 months. Here's what we take on at each stage, so you can see exactly where our involvement lands and how it lightens your load.
We coordinate access to the property, secure the home and belongings, begin a thoughtful room-by-room inventory, gather the documents you'll need, and set up a clear project plan with next steps — bringing calm and order quickly so nothing is lost or missed.
We handle the hands-on work: estate clear-outs and donations, auction and resale through our MaxSold partnership, an Opinion of Value for the property, preparing and selling the home, and communication with your estate's lawyer and tax professionals — all with regular updates against the work plan.
We organize the final documentation, arrange shipping of specific items to beneficiaries as directed, provide guidance in your executor role, and maintain property oversight until the estate is fully closed — making sure nothing falls through the cracks at the finish line.
When an estate holds more belongings than the family can keep, we partner with MaxSold to turn those contents into a streamlined online auction. MaxSold is a leading North American online auction marketplace that helps families clear out homes, downsized spaces, and estates through hyper-local, time-listed auctions — keeping items out of landfill and putting them in the hands of buyers who genuinely want them.
Through our partnership, we handle the on-the-ground work — sorting, lotting, photographing, and describing each item — while MaxSold's platform reaches a wide pool of local bidders across Canada and the U.S. The result is a transparent, well-documented sale process that maximizes returns for the estate, provides clear records for executors and beneficiaries, and removes the stress of coordinating a traditional estate sale. It's one more way we make sure nothing is overlooked and every item is treated with respect.
MaxSold is an online auction platform that specializes in downsizing, estate sales, and moving sales. Rather than holding a traditional garage or estate sale, items are photographed, catalogued, and auctioned online to thousands of registered bidders.
For many downsizing and estate situations, yes. A MaxSold auction reaches a much larger audience than a local garage sale, and everything is sold within a defined auction period. Buyers then pick up their purchases on a scheduled pickup day, making the process much more organized.
No. Our team will manage the photography, cataloguing, marketing, payment collection, and pickup process.
Yes. Estate lawyers, executors, and families commonly use online estate auctions because they provide a documented sales process while efficiently clearing a home. Community discussions frequently recommend MaxSold for estate clear-outs because it avoids months of individual Marketplace or Kijiji listings.
We coordinate the entire process—from deciding what stays and what goes, to arranging the auction, preparing the home for sale, and managing the final clean-out. Our goal is to make the transition as simple and stress-free as possible.