Matt Paxton is one of the top Hoarding Clean-Up experts in the United States. Paxton is the founder of Clutter Cleaner, author of The Secret Lives of Hoarders and featured expert on the television show Hoarders. He's been cleaning hoarded homes for over 10 years and has seen it all from 300 cats to an 8 ft wide rats nest. Paxton's used his vast experience to create the ServiceMaster Restore Hoarding & Estate Cleanup Program that provides compassion focused cleaning nationwide. Matt travel's the country speaking about Hoarding awareness and how to effectively communicate with a loved one struggling with hoarding. When not traveling, Matt lives in Virginia with his wife and 3 sons.
Each episode of Hoarders is a fascinating look inside the lives of two different people whose inability to part with their belongings is so out of control that they are on the verge of a personal crisis....
Across the United States, unclaimed valuables lie buried within ordinary people's attics, basements and garages. Matt Paxton travels around the country in search of rare, big-ticket items hidden in some of the most cluttered, filthy homes imaginable. His priority is to clean out the overloaded properties and sell his finds as quickly and for as much money as possible to secure the ultimate payday for him and his clients....
Shanna lives with a hoard of urine and feces stored in plastic bottles, while Lynda hoards for the "left-behinders" when the rapture comes....