This is a company that is a niche business which if you ever need their help: man oh man will you…read morebe so glad it is available. Unfairly, Bio-Tex should have a ton of good reviews here on Yelp, on Angieslist, and on Google Maps, but there are two reasons why they probably don't:
1. a ton of their business must come from people who have been traumatized because their property was the scene of a crime, they are horrified and probably grieving. And/or
2. a lot of their business must also be from people who are dealing with a hoarder situation, and people can feel embarrassed about making that public, or exposing that a family member had that problem
My father died just before this last Christmas, in his Houston apartment. My sister and I both live out of town. He was both a relatively clean hoarder (a "clutterer"?), but also adamantly still renting in an apartment complex with an entrenched bed bug infestation. We felt overwhelmed to come in to Houston, tackle all the complex issues of burying him properly and handling all the documents and organization which must take place when a single adult dies suddenly.
After an online search, I was lucky enough to find someone who had a similar situation when her mother died, and who had used Angie and her cleaning company. And this woman was big enough to be candid about using their services and being so glad she did. So I need to pass that favor along and not be too embarrassed to tell the truth:
Angie and her people were amazing. They came into his apartment with HazMat suits and were careful to go through his things to pull all documents and things of value, emotional or actual, and set them aside for us. Then they had dumpsters to properly dispose of everything else with our okay. She has a scanner and shredder, and even a generator for situations when they need one where there is no power. She is a licensed firearm instructor, and can handle situations like ours where my father had guns. She knew how to properly unload them, and zip tie them for a legally safe way to remove them.
She knows even how to get appraisals for things you'd like to sell but can't handle doing so for yourself. Basically this is a smart, organized, business woman who hires the ideal people for her line of work: a lot of tough, totally unsqueamish hard workers who can handle cleaning a crime scene in a crack house, or combing through the life time accumulation of a hoarder, or even cleaning a situation where there has been a dead body in place for a very long time. I can't even imagine the stories they have that they could tell of their experiences, but all of them were too efficient and polite to be inclined to do so.
It depends on the situation and how much you need them to do as to how much it costs you. Our bill was well over 10k, but they did everything for us. They provided all the dumpsters, garbage bags, etc. We just stayed on site, sitting at a table, to sort through what they found that might be of importance. If anyone dangerous had been around, I am sure they even could have deftly handled that. Angie helped my sister with selling my father's car, and guns afterwards for a commission. It is unbelievable how many things this competent woman can handle because of her knowledge earned through experience.
If you only need more simple help, I am sure the cost would be much less. But this was the situation we were in, and if we hadn't hired Angie and Bio-Tex, it would have been a nightmare for us in addition to the heartbreak it already was.
I wish someone would make a documentary about Angie and her crew - it would be absolutely fascinating.
