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特殊清掃

tokushu seisōとくしゅせいそう

Specialist cleaning after a death

Deodorizing, disinfecting, and cleaning a home back to a habitable state after a death that went undiscovered, a service surveyed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications alongside the wider estate-clearance trade[1]. The word carries weight in a listing because the ministry guideline uses it as a threshold: an ordinary natural death generally need not be disclosed, but a natural death that required specialist cleaning is handled under the disclosable branch instead[2]. For a rental, the guideline gives roughly three years from discovery as a reference period after which an agent generally need not keep raising it; for a sale it sets no such period[2].

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  1. [1]Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Administrative Evaluation Bureau (総務省行政評価局), 遺品整理のサービスをめぐる現状に関する調査結果報告書 (March 2020)
  2. [2]Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (国土交通省), 宅地建物取引業者による人の死の告知に関するガイドライン (October 2021)

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