Estate services after a death
You shouldn't have to learn a second job the week you lose someone.
When a person dies, their family inherits a house to empty, boxes of paper to make sense of, accounts to find, and calls nobody wants to make. We are the one call that takes all of it. We do the work, we bring in the right professionals for what we can't do, and every step lands in one record your whole family can see.
Nine patches.
One quilt.
A nine patch is the oldest block in American quilting: the bright scraps of a family's life, squared and sewn into one whole worth keeping. That is the job, and that is the name. Here is what we take off your hands.
The papers
Every statement, deed, policy and title, sorted and scanned into a clear map of what exists and what is owed.
The photographs
Albums, letters and home movies preserved at archive quality. Every heir receives the complete set.
The house
Emptied and cleaned by crews we vet and watch, ready to sell or to keep. Nothing leaves before the family has looked.
The accounts
Signature-ready requests to the institutions that know what paper alone can't show. Tracked until they answer.
The record
Everything on this page, documented in one place, seen by every heir at the same time. Nobody waits for secondhand news.
The belongings
Every heir flags what matters to them before anything is sold, given or moved. The $30 cookie jar counts.
The estate sale
Sold by professionals, item by item where it's warranted, with every receipt in the record.
The calls
Utilities, insurers, subscriptions and the rest of the list nobody wants to sit on hold for.
The right professionals
Attorney, accountant, realtor, appraiser. We bring you good ones and take nothing for the introduction.
How it works
Four steps, in the open, from the first call to a finished house. Slow enough to be careful. Fast enough to matter.
Call.
We sit down with you and build the list of what your situation actually needs. Then the list is ours, not yours.
We document everything first.
Before anything is moved, the house is recorded room by room, and every heir is invited to watch it happen live. Papers leave sealed and logged. Valuables stay in your hands, photographed and tagged.
The work happens where everyone can see it.
The sorting, the scanning, the sale, the cleanout. Every step and every receipt goes into the record, for every heir, at the same time.
It ends finished.
The house ready. The paper mapped. The photographs preserved. The originals returned in order, and nothing destroyed without the executor's signed approval.
Nobody has to take anybody's word.
Most family trouble after a death starts the same way: one person holds the information and everyone else hears it secondhand. We built Nine Patch so every heir sees the same record at the same moment. Our limits, in writing:
- We are not lawyers, accountants or realtors. We bring you good ones and take nothing for the introduction.
- We never hold your money or your valuables. Not for an afternoon. Not ever.
- Nothing is destroyed without the executor's signature. And every page is imaged before the shredder sees it.
- The will, titles and bonds never leave your hands. We work from copies. Your family keeps the originals.
- Every dollar shows. Anything we or any crew earns on your estate appears as a line in your record.
- Nothing leaves early. No sale, donation or cleanout starts until every heir has had time to look.
- We are never alone in your house. The executor or their chosen person is present for all work, ours included. If they leave, we stop.
- We never buy from an estate we serve. Not us, not our crews. A helper with a bid is not a helper.
For attorneys and funeral directors
We take the hours that don't fit your practice, the boxes, the sorting, the house, and hand back a clean file your client can act on. No referral fees in either direction.
How we work with professionals