Families: an estate concierge to bring order to the chaos, with clear milestones, proof and deliverables.
After a death, you have to manage access, belongings, decisions and, often, tensions. VALORA turns the situation into a managed project: we document, we validate, then we execute — with traceable deliverables (exportable inventory, time-stamped photos, registers, reports).
WE UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU’RE GOING THROUGH!
If it feels like “everything is happening at once,” that’s normal.
Family liquidators face a mix of logistics and decisions: access to the home, sorting belongings, handling documents, deadlines and, sometimes, disagreements. The risk isn’t just the workload: it’s improvisation, misunderstandings and irreversible actions.
What VALORA brings you
- A simple method (milestones)
- Clear deliverables (proof)
- Control over decisions and disbursements (approvals)
Our role: helping you move forward methodically, with no grey areas
What we do
- Secure access (key register + access log)
- Document belongings (exportable inventory + indexed photos)
- Structure decisions (sell / donate / destroy / store)
- Carry out what is approved (with proof)
- Deliver a consolidated file (final report)
What you keep
- Control over decisions (who approves what)
- Visibility (deliverables at every milestone)
- Cost control (ranges + assumptions + disbursement approval threshold)
Typical mandates for families
1) “First, we want to understand what’s there”
- Access and security
- On-site inventory
- Progress report (inventory + photos + decisions to be made)
2) “We need to empty/vacate the home”
- Inventory (fast but thorough)
- Documented decisions
- Clearance / donations / destruction (with approvals)
- Storage if needed
3) “The house has to be sold”
- Milestone plan
- Inventory / sorting / vacating
- Market preparation coordination (if applicable)
- Final file
What you receive: deliverables designed to prevent misunderstandings
- Depending on the mandate, you receive:
Key register and access log
- Exportable inventory (CSV/XLSX)
- Indexed photo album (time-stamped photos)
- Decision register (decisions and authorizations)
- Disposition / storage reports (with supporting documents when available)
- Final report “professional file, ready to integrate into your practice” (consolidated file)
Pricing: simple, transparent, controllable
- Hourly rate per person
- Disbursements rebilled at actual cost plus management fees (e.g., storage, transport, external fees)
- Work organized by milestones with a range based on assumptions
- Approval threshold for disbursements: no significant disbursement without your consent
FAQ
Yes. The mandate is modular, based on your needs.
The authorized person (often the liquidator). We clarify this as part of the assessment.
Through documentation: key register, access log, time-stamped photos, exportable inventory and approvals.
They are treated as sensitive: restricted access, documentation, and handover according to instructions.
We start planning as soon as access and the decision-maker are clear. Some stages depend on authorizations and the parties’ decisions.
We can coordinate preparation and the parties involved according to the mandate (e.g., a broker), where applicable.
$160/h/person + disbursements at actual cost plus a management fee. Work by milestones, with ranges.
We prefer ranges based on assumptions, because conditions on the ground vary widely.
Yes, with a register and delivery slips; storage costs are billed back at actual cost plus a management fee.
Montréal, Laval, Montérégie, Laurentides, Lanaudière.
Yes. Exports and reports are structured to be reusable.
We move forward on what is clear and pause anything that requires a decision; irreversible actions require authorization.