DP, your typing is fine but I consistently read your reports as Beaver Heaven, and I hope it is!
The hoarding characteristics linked above are from the view of intervening professionals. My view answers a question some folks I this thread have wondered about, and is for regular folks and not professionals. The points listed apply not only to my one bad experience, but-- apparently-- to others; my FB group is resonating to them deeply. One member is applying them to her impending majority -downsize!