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Estate sales
Posted on 12/9/19 at 10:58 pm
Posted on 12/9/19 at 10:58 pm
Conducting one for my sisters estate. What are your suggestions or advice for me? I have only held 2 in my previous years. Both went well but this is a little different animal.
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Posted on 12/10/19 at 6:05 am to contraryman
Where and when?? Why is this one different?
Posted on 12/10/19 at 7:05 am to contraryman
See if you can get,I think his name is "antique tiger" to respond.
He usually posts some on the OT. Has started several threads about estate sale finds
He usually posts some on the OT. Has started several threads about estate sale finds
Posted on 12/10/19 at 9:11 am to contraryman
I don't know what you mean by different?
Go through the house top to bottom. Get anything you would hate to lose. Then get the hell out and let the people handle the sale. I assume you let a company do the sale?
I could think of nothing more aggravating or depressing than watching strangers paw through my loved ones life and haggle with them for things I have sentimental value toward, just by who owned them.
Go through the house top to bottom. Get anything you would hate to lose. Then get the hell out and let the people handle the sale. I assume you let a company do the sale?
I could think of nothing more aggravating or depressing than watching strangers paw through my loved ones life and haggle with them for things I have sentimental value toward, just by who owned them.
Posted on 12/10/19 at 9:22 am to contraryman
Make sure and list on estatesales.net
Posted on 12/10/19 at 10:12 am to LSU alum wannabe
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I could think of nothing more aggravating or depressing than watching strangers paw through my loved ones life and haggle with them for things I have sentimental value toward, just by who owned them.
My poor spouse and his sister had a significant disagreement over holding an estate sale after their mother died. She had a whole house full of stuff, and Sis wanted to have an estate sale or garage sale. But we live in a fairly small town/area, where their mother also lived, and Spouse didn't want to see all of her possessions divvied up and sold to people we would likely encounter/see later on. No one needed to maximize income from the estate, so this was more about his sister's cheap/thrifty nature. She still bears a bit of a grudge over it, more than a decade later.
We ended up donating much of the usable household stuff to various charities. The tax deduction was as beneficial as the small amount we would have raised through an estate sale.
Posted on 12/10/19 at 2:19 pm to hungryone
It will be different because the ones I’ve held in the past Have been just garage sales. I did not get a company to come and run it for me as I am not attached to anything that still in the house. And I didn’t want to pay their 35% commission. It’s in Baton Rouge this Saturday and Sunday and will be listed in paper. I will need to look into estatesales.net to see how to list there.
Posted on 12/10/19 at 2:34 pm to contraryman
Estatesales.net is the current go to. Also list on Facebook Marketplace.
Posted on 12/10/19 at 8:31 pm to contraryman
My advice is to take out what you want and hire a company, I think they take 33%.
The biggest mistake people have is that they think an object is memory. That is not true, a memory is in your head, the object is just a trigger of the memory.
If you have several things that will trigger the same memory of your sister, just keep one, not all of them. For example, a bunch of souvenirs from a trip, they all trigger the same memory of that trip, so just keep one, and if you said money is no big deal, keep the cheap object, sell the expensive stuff.
Estate sale companies work two different ways. They will come in, figure a rough estimate, and decide either to do it on commission or buy the entire estate from you.
The biggest mistake people have is that they think an object is memory. That is not true, a memory is in your head, the object is just a trigger of the memory.
If you have several things that will trigger the same memory of your sister, just keep one, not all of them. For example, a bunch of souvenirs from a trip, they all trigger the same memory of that trip, so just keep one, and if you said money is no big deal, keep the cheap object, sell the expensive stuff.
Estate sale companies work two different ways. They will come in, figure a rough estimate, and decide either to do it on commission or buy the entire estate from you.
This post was edited on 12/10/19 at 8:35 pm
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