What this is
Metro East Cleanout Directory is an independent index of 200 companies doing estate cleanouts, estate liquidation, junk removal, hoarding remediation and interior demolition across the Illinois Metro East and the adjoining St. Louis metro. We publish the directory; we don't do the cleanout work ourselves. No company pays to be indexed, and none is removed or demoted for declining to pay for anything else.
What "verified" does and doesn't mean here
Most entries are compiled from public information and may be incomplete or out of date. A company does not become verified by appearing in this directory. Confirm services, service area, licensing where it applies, availability and pricing directly with the company before you hire. We use four separate labels and they mean three different things:
- Public information checked — core facts on the card were reviewed against a cited public source on the date shown. Nothing more.
- Owner verified — the business owner completed a verification process with us. No listing currently carries this label.
- Paid featured listing — paid placement, described below.
- Affiliated featured provider — Heritage Property Transitions, the provider this directory is affiliated with. Not a paid placement.
Who receives quote requests
Heritage Property Transitions is the only provider currently receiving quote requests through this directory, and selecting one of its buttons contacts HPT, not another listed business. It is labelled Affiliated featured provider on its card and its button says so by name. Every other listing links out to that company's own website or phone number, or states plainly that we have not verified a contact method for it — no other card sends you to Heritage Property Transitions or to us.
How we make money
A listed company can pay $49 a month to have its existing entry pinned to the top of the directory and highlighted — featured placement. Any card that gets it is labelled Paid featured listing. No company is currently buying featured placement, so no card carries that label today. That's the only lever money pulls here: it doesn't touch whether a company is indexed, what we publish about it, or the ordering of anyone who hasn't paid. Heritage Property Transitions is pinned as an affiliated provider, not a paying one.
Where the data comes from
Entries are compiled from public business records — mainly Better Business Bureau registrations and published business listings — and each card carries the date it was last checked. 40 of the 200 companies are Illinois-based; the rest are St. Louis-area operators that cross the river for work. We publish a company's public business phone number and, where the record has one, its own website. We do not publish street addresses, and we do not guess at email addresses.
Claiming or correcting a listing
Every card carries a Claim or correct this listing link. It opens an email to listings@metroeastcleanoutpros.com with the listing already named. Tell us what's wrong, or that the listing is yours, and we will action it.
Corrections and removals
If your company is listed incorrectly, or you would like the listing removed, write to listings@metroeastcleanoutpros.com and we will action it. Removal requests are honoured without question.