Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Northern Lights Lodge, post: 11527807, member: 13464&quot;][USER=85332]@Tiquer[/USER] </p><p>I think you are right to some degree; but there are a few more factors. Having dispersed sales for quite some time, we often ran into families who:</p><p><br /></p><p>#1. didn&#039;t want to pay someone else to run a sale for them and figured that the &quot;stuff&quot; wasn&#039;t worth that much anyway. Those sales tend to way overpriced or way underpriced and in the end - it ends up in the dumpster, getting dirtballed out because they just did a slap dash job with no research, set up or thought other than make a couple bucks or they lose money because they had no idea of it&#039;s true value. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve been to a number of estate sales like this: often not priced at all, no change at hand, no packing material at hand, no &quot;in&quot; or &quot;out&quot;, no one really &quot;in charge&quot; to make a decision, no research done on items - just their own &quot;best guess&quot; (often way to high, or way to low), no one paying attention to any customers in the estate, nothing displayed (people just paw through contents of closets and drawers), no &quot;trash&quot; thrown out (empty packing and cardboard boxes just dumped around rooms), items are dirty, broken or sticky, odd item here and it&#039;s mate over there.</p><p><br /></p><p>Even if they &quot;thought&quot; there wasn&#039;t much monetary value per item; it would have served them well, to make a modicum of effort to wash a few things, get rid of some trash, make tables of like priced items with a big sign over it stating the price, have 1 person in charge of wheeler dealer prices and a real change box with a person and an adding machine AND some packing materials at hand and a specific IN and OUT. I&#039;ve seen so many sales where people just walk in and out the back door without paying for anything. I&#039;ve also seen sales where family just sits clustered together talking and really not paying ANY attention to customers...who either leave unnoticed or frustrated with the sale.</p><p><br /></p><p>#2. would &quot;LIKE&quot; to have held a sale or auction; but distance from the location and time away from their jobs didn&#039;t permit it. What often happens in this case; is that the realtor gets to the decedents first and tells them that the &quot;house looks better furnished&quot; (so don&#039;t empty the house). Then the house sells, and BOOM, they might have 2 weeks or a month to get things sorted out and for an average size 3 bedroom, basement, garage, kitchen, 2 bath, living room, family room home that has 70 years worth of &quot;collection&quot;... that just ISN&#039;T much time to get it all coordinated and priced. Especially when branches of the family live in opposite sides of the country. </p><p><br /></p><p>We had been called to a home to quote disbursement of the estate. Beautifully appointed older home in a historic area of town. Multiple bedrooms, basement, two living rooms, 3 car garage.. absolutely CHUCK full! Not hoarders - too tidy for that...in fact &quot;spotless&quot;. Clean, modern furniture, lovely antiques, lots and LOTS of local collectibles...2 cars, riding lawnmower, 2 sets of nice patio furniture... but they needed the sale to be Friday (it was Wednesday) and we were in the middle of preparing another sale. There wouldn&#039;t have even had time to advertise!</p><p><br /></p><p>We had looked in the fridge and freezer, and they were full! We assumed that &quot;Grandma&quot; had just passed away &quot;recently&quot;. &quot;Oh, no they said.. she passed away last EASTER!&quot; So now it was late September and apparently they hadn&#039;t bothered to even empty the refrigerator! ...But the realtor said &quot;that it sells better with furniture&quot;. </p><p><br /></p><p>Even a disbursal company with a large crew would need more time than that!!</p><p><br /></p><p>And no, we didn&#039;t end up with the sale. But curious, as we never heard what happened to all the &quot;stuff&quot;. All we can think of is that perhaps an auction company came in and hauled it to another location.</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, the stuff ya learn!! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Cheerio,</p><p>Leslie[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in