Turning Mess Into Success

Hoarding company cleans up.

Matt Paxton and his five-man crew wrestled open the broken electric door to reveal an eight-foot high wall of black trash bags filling the garage. The stench hit so hard that one of the crew members immediately doubled over and started vomiting. Paxton smiled and waded in.

This isn't unusual work for Paxton's four-year-old company, Clutter Cleaner, which is featured on A&E's "Hoarders" and specializes in cleaning up after extreme clutterers – people who acquire so many possessions that they interfere with daily life. With just six crew members, he is one of the few independent cleaning companies that will take any job, no matter how time-intensive or hard core.

-- Wall Street Journal