Fort Lauderdale
The Inventory Is What Protects You
A personal representative is personally accountable for estate property. What protects them is not a strong door — it is a dated, itemized, witnessed record made before anything left the house. That record is what we actually provide.
No fee to talk it through, and no client details needed to start. If the timing is urgent, call rather than email.
Witnessed
Inventory signed by two attendants and by you
Named
Access limited to individuals you name in writing
1983
Operating on the Galt Ocean Mile since
Honoured
Valid legal process, and we publish that
What we do
What we do
Six things an estate needs, and each page names where you need a different professional instead.
Securing Estate Contents
An empty house full of a lifetime's possessions, several relatives with keys, and a probate process that may run a year. This is how estate property quietly disappears, and almost none of it involves a burglar.
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Witnessed Inventory
The single most valuable thing we produce is a piece of paper: an itemized list, photographed, dated, and signed by you and two independent witnesses.
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Custody Through Probate
Probate takes as long as it takes. The property needs somewhere to be that is secure, insured, documented, and not anybody's garage.
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Bank Box Transfer
A bank box belonging to someone who has died is the purest version of this problem: there is no record of what is in it, and the only person who knew is gone.
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Contested Estates
Where entitlement is disputed, the most useful thing a custodian can do is hold the property, document it, and make no decisions at all.
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Release & Distribution
The end of the job, and the part most worth getting right, because it is where a well-run administration can still generate a dispute.
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Who you are
Who you are
A representative, an attorney and a beneficiary have genuinely different exposure here.
Personal Representatives
A personal representative is personally accountable for the estate's property. That is the whole reason this service exists.
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Probate Attorneys
You cannot refer a client to a custodian whose behavior under legal process is unknown, because if it goes wrong the referral was yours.
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Beneficiaries
If you are a beneficiary reading this, something has probably already worried you — about the house, about who has keys, or about what has already gone.
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Trustees
Trustees have the same custody problem as personal representatives, on a longer timescale and usually with more beneficiaries watching.
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Before Anyone Is Appointed
The hardest moment. The house is vulnerable, everybody is grieving, and legally nobody yet has authority to do very much.
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The difference
Why the record matters more than the vault
The inventory is the product
A personal representative is personally accountable for estate property. What protects them is not a strong door — it is a dated, itemized, witnessed record made before anything left the house. That record is what we actually sell.
It makes the argument impossible rather than winnable
Without an early inventory, nobody can prove something went missing and nobody can prove it did not. That doubt is corrosive to a family for years. An inventory does not win the argument; it prevents it from being available.
We will not act without documented authority
If entitlement is contested, that gets resolved before we arrive, not by us. We are not going to be the instrument by which one relative empties a house ahead of the others.
Counsel can rely on the position
We honor valid subpoenas and court orders and we publish that. A firm cannot refer a client to a facility whose behavior under legal process is unknown, because the risk lands on the firm.
Start here
Discuss an estate
No fee to talk it through and no client details needed to start. Tell us roughly what the situation is and where things stand.
If a house is being cleared this week, call rather than email.
Common questions
- Who can instruct a collection?
- The personal representative, executor, or someone with documented court authority. We will ask to see it.
- Do you value the property?
- No. We describe and photograph. Valuation is a separate profession and should be independent of the custodian.
- What if the family is in dispute?
- Then the property sits in the vault, itemized and untouched, until it is resolved. We take no view on entitlement.
- Can beneficiaries see the inventory?
- Anyone the representative names in writing. Sharing it early usually reduces friction rather than inviting it.
- Whose name is the holding in?
- The estate's, not an individual's, with access limited to named individuals.
- Do you honor court orders?
- Yes, and we publish that position so counsel does not have to ask.
- How long can property stay?
- As long as probate takes. Storage is month to month because the process has no fixed term.
- Can you help before anyone is appointed?
- We can explain and prepare, but we cannot collect until somebody has authority to instruct.
Visit us
Come and see the vault
- Address
- 3562 N Ocean Blvd
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33308
Galt Ocean Mile - Hours
- Mon–Fri 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Phone
- (954) 565-7233
Read our Google reviews — worth a look before you hand anyone your property.
Tours are by appointment
You are welcome to see the vault before you decide anything. Tours are private and booked in advance — you will see the door, the man-trap entry and the box room, and nobody else will be walking through.
We are on the Galt Ocean Mile, on North Ocean Boulevard between Oakland Park Boulevard and Commercial Boulevard. If you are crossing one of the Intracoastal bridges, allow a few extra minutes — an opening adds ten.
No account relationship is required to visit. Call(954) 565-7233 and we will put a time aside.
Tell us what needs to move.
What, from where, and roughly when. You do not need an inventory to start the conversation, and if the job belongs with an armored carrier we will say so on the call.