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
Securing Estate Contents
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Witnessed Inventory
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Custody Through Probate
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Bank Box Transfer
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Contested Estates
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Release & Distribution
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Who you are
Who you are
Personal Representatives
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Beneficiaries
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Trustees
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Before Anyone Is Appointed
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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.
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.