For agents and sellers with a listing date. We clear, depersonalise and stage-prep the property so the photographer can shoot it the same week — and so the first showing does not open onto somebody else’s basement.
$1,500–$3,500 · Booked backwards from your MLS date · fixed in writing on site
Every agent knows the property that would sell in a weekend if it were empty, and sits for two months because it is not. Clutter does not just look bad in photographs — it makes rooms read smaller, hides the features you are selling, and gives a buyer a reason to lowball on the assumption that something is being concealed.
A pre-listing cleanout is a different job from an estate clearing. The seller usually still lives there, the timeline is fixed by the listing agreement rather than by probate, and the goal is not an empty house but a photographable one. That means knowing what to remove and what to leave, working around the client’s life, and finishing clean enough that the photographer does not have to work around us.
We book these backwards from the MLS date. Tell us when the shoot is and we will tell you the last day we can start.
Then we finish Wednesday. Pre-listing work is scheduled around your shoot date, not ours, and we will tell you at the valuation whether the date is realistic rather than finding out halfway through.
We do a walk-and-flag pass with them first — keep, donate, dispose — and work from that list. Keep items can be boxed and moved to a single room, a garage or a storage unit rather than leaving with us.
They usually are, and they are usually what the listing photographs skip. We clear both to a usable, photographable state, and the garage comes back degreased rather than just emptied.
One fixed written price before anything moves, a crew that protects floors and door frames, and a property handed back swept and wiped. Agents refer us again because the job does not generate a phone call.
We clear with the camera in mind — sightlines open, rooms reading at their full size, surfaces clean. Emptying a house and making it photograph well are not the same job.
Photographs, certificates, religious items and personal clutter are boxed carefully and returned to the seller, not binned. Buyers need to imagine themselves living there; sellers need their things back.
Tell us the shoot date at the valuation and we will build the schedule around it, including the last safe start date. Agents get priority slots on listing-driven work.
Both cleared to a usable state, the garage degreased back toward bare concrete. These are the spaces buyers inspect hardest and photographs most often avoid.
Floor runners, stair protection, padded door frames. The property is about to be photographed and walked through by strangers — we leave no marks for them to find.
Usable furniture and housewares are routed to GTA charities rather than landfill, and where the charity issues a receipt it goes to the seller. A small thing that clients remember.
We walk the property with you, usually about twenty minutes. You get a fixed written price — not a range, not an hourly rate that drifts.
A 30% deposit confirms the booking and holds your crew, vehicle and disposal window. It comes straight off the final invoice.
Property protected, contents sorted donation-first, space handed back swept at minimum. You walk it with us before you pay the balance.
Pre-listing cleanouts across the Greater Toronto Area, scheduled around MLS and photography dates.
Pre-listing and realtor-ready cleanouts start at $1,500. The number moves with the size of the property, how much is leaving versus being boxed and kept, whether the garage and basement are included, and how far the finish is taken. It is fixed in writing at a free on-site valuation, and a 30% deposit confirms the booking and comes off the final invoice.
Yes — that is the normal case. We do a walk-and-flag pass with the seller first so everyone agrees what is leaving, box and relocate the keep items rather than removing them, and work in a sequence that leaves the house liveable each night. Occupied pre-listing jobs are usually one or two days.
Finish at least one clear day before the shoot. In practice we ask agents to book the valuation two to three weeks out, which gives room to schedule the crew and, if needed, a second visit for the garage. If your date is tighter than that, call us — we hold slots for listing-driven work and will tell you straight away whether it is achievable.
No. We clear, clean and prep — we are not a staging company or a general contractor. What we will do is hand off cleanly to whoever is doing those jobs, and co-ordinate so your trades are not tripping over each other. Several GTA agents run us as the first trade in the sequence for exactly that reason.
Yes. Agents who send us work get priority scheduling around listing dates, a direct line rather than the general queue, and a referral arrangement we will set out in writing. Details are on our partners page.
Tell us your listing date and we will tell you the last day we can start. Twenty minutes on site, one fixed written price.
