For probate attorneys · listing agents · property managers

Your name is on the recommendation.

Which is why the crew you send matters. We clear estate and rental properties across Marion, Sumter, and Lake — insured, documented, and fast enough to get a house to market.

Before you refer

Everything you'd want on file.

Coverage

Licensed and insured

General liability certificate available on request, and we'll name your firm or brokerage as certificate holder if that's your policy.

Turnaround

Most properties in one day

Standard garage or unit same day. Full property clearing typically one to three days depending on volume and access.

Documentation

Written inventory on every job

Photographed inventory of anything set aside as potentially valuable, plus disposal records. Matters when an heir or former tenant asks later.

Discretion

Unmarked, quiet, respectful

No signage in the yard, no discussion with neighbors. Families in this situation don't want an audience.

Who we work with

Three ways this usually comes up.

Probate & estate attorneys

Your personal representative asks who to call. The wrong answer becomes your problem two months later.

  • Nothing of value goes to the landfill unreviewed
  • Written inventory protects the PR from heir disputes
  • We work to the estate's timeline, not ours
  • Direct line to the owner, not a call center

Listing agents

A cluttered property doesn't photograph, doesn't show, and doesn't sell. Usually the agent absorbs that cost to win the listing.

  • Cleared and photo-ready, typically in a day
  • Same-day quote from photos you already have
  • Disposal handled — nothing lands back on you
  • Seller finds out about anything valuable up front

Property managers & storage

Post-eviction and abandoned unit clearing on a schedule, with the paperwork that comes with it.

  • Photographed inventory for disputed claims
  • Standing rates for regular volume
  • We work your turnaround window
  • Proper disposal of chemicals and e-waste
The part that matters

We look before we load.

Most cleanout crews are paid by the truckload, which means everything goes in the truck. Costume jewelry that turns out to be sterling. A box of postcards. A machinist's tool chest. The family finds out months later, from someone else, what was in there.

We go through it first. Anything that looks like it carries value gets set aside, photographed, and shown to the personal representative or owner before a single item leaves. If they want to sell it themselves, that's fine — we'll tell them roughly what it's worth and where to take it. If they'd rather not deal with it, we'll buy it outright and credit it against the job.

Either way, the decision belongs to your client. That's the whole difference, and it's why referring us doesn't come back on you.

Not a description — the actual pages

What the file looks like before you refer anyone.

Every clearing company says it documents things. Here is ours, so you can judge it rather than take our word. These are the real forms, exactly as your client receives them.

Form SL-4 page one: the completion file cover, with property and estate fields, work performed, an enclosures checklist and a signed certification.
Form SL-4 · page 1

The cover and certification

Property, estate, probate case number and referring firm on one page. An enclosures checklist so nothing is assumed, and a signed certification of what was done.

Form SL-4 Schedule A: itemized cost detail separating clearing labor, disposal at county rates with ticket numbers, licensed trade invoices and credits.
Form SL-4 · Schedule A

Itemized costs, not one number

Clearing broken out from disposal, every scale ticket numbered, licensed trade invoices shown separately, and purchases credited back. Written to drop into an accounting.

Form SL-4 Schedule B: licensed trade contractors with Florida license numbers and insurance expiry dates, plus a photograph record table by area.
Form SL-4 · Schedule B

Trades and the photo record

Every outside contractor with their Florida license number and insurance expiry, and an index of the before-and-after photographs by area. Credentials you can verify yourself.

Form SL-1 Value Items Log: a numbered table recording each item set aside, where it was found, its condition and the owner's decision.
Form SL-1

The value items log

Each item set aside, where in the property it was found, and the owner's decision recorded against it. Signed by your client, not by us.

Take the blank packet and read it properly. If something in it would not satisfy you on a file of your own, tell us and we will change it — several of these fields exist because an attorney asked for them.

Download the blank SL‑4 packet (PDF)
In writing

Four promises, and what happens if we break one.

A guarantee with no consequence attached is a sentiment. Each of these says what we do, how you would know if we had not, and what it costs us when that happens.

1

The price we quote is the price.

Your client gets a written scope and a fixed price before anything is touched. If the job turns out bigger than we judged it, that is our estimating error and not their bill. Scope changes only with their written approval, agreed in advance.

If we exceed the approved scope without written approval, we absorb the difference. They pay the price on the signed agreement.
2

Disposal is passed through at the county's rate.

Landfill and transfer station charges appear at Marion County's own posted rate with the scale receipts attached by date. We make nothing on disposal. It is a cost, not a line we earn on.

If you ever find a markup on a disposal line, the clearing labor on that entire job is free.
3

Everything on the value log is accounted for.

Every item set aside is photographed where it was found and recorded on Form SL-1 with the owner's decision against it. At the end, every line has an outcome — returned, purchased with a signed bill of sale, sold on instruction, or disposed of with approval.

If a logged item cannot be accounted for at the end of the job, we credit the estate the value shown for it on the log.
4

The file arrives within five business days.

The complete closing packet — signed inventory, before and after photographs, itemized costs, disposal tickets and trade credentials — delivered within five business days of our final day on site.

If it is late, we take 10% off the invoice. If it has already been paid, we refund it.
Not insurance.Your client keeps their own coverage on the property. This covers our work, not the building.
Not an appraisal.Values on Form SL-1 are informal opinions so a decision can be made. They are not formal appraisals and should not be used as one.
Not the trades.Licensed trade work is contracted directly between the estate and the contractor, under their own license and insurance.
Not pre-existing damage.Damage found underneath contents is photographed and reported the day we find it. We did not cause it and we do not hide it.

To invoke it, your client calls and says so. There is no form and no claims process.

Want to be on the referral list?

Download the one-page overview for your file — insurance, turnaround times, and how we document inventory. Or reply to any email and I'll send the certificate directly.

Download the one-pager (PDF)
Direct contact

Steven Sloan, owner.

Call or text(352) 561-8108 Emailsteve@secondlookestate.com
Service areaMarion, Sumter & Lake counties