What is the best way to dispose of the contents of a house for someone recently deceased?
My brother died suddenly this month and my wife and I are faced with what to do with the contents of house. We’ve been told that we could hold an auction — but then something very valuable might be auctioned for far, far less than it’s actual value.
Can anyone help with this?
Thanks
An auction is the fastest way to liquidate the estate, but some things may sell for far less than value. One way to help prevent this is to be in attendance at the auction. If you know the value of the items you are concerned about, you can bid on them yourself to ensure that they fetch an acceptable price. This should be done sparingly as regular auction attenders frown on it and may resist bidding if they know they are bidding against the house. You may end up buying some of the items back this way and will have to sell them yourself after the auction.
The professional estate sale is a little slower, and tended to cost a bit more in fees. Some professional estate liquidators will buy anything that did not sell during the sale and attempt to sell it latter, but not many will do this. Things that don’t sell are usually your problem.
A garage sale is also of course possible, but takes a lot of your time.
The last way I can think of is eBay. If you do not want to list the items on eBay your self, there are companies that will take the items and do it for you on a commission basis. You can contact a few of them in your aria and see what they will do. If you have an entire estate, they may even come to you.
Its called an Estate sell. You can hire someone to do it or do it your self. Its like a giant yard sell.
You will never get what you want off of it and alot of thing are going to end up on the curve unless you want to store them.
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There are companies that specialize in estate sales. They come in and price the items so you know what they are worth. Then they hold an open house to sell whatever you decide to sell. They handle all of the details such as ads, etc. You don’t have to sell everything. Look in the Yellow Pages for estate sales.
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Shop for an estate sale specialist…..you will know when you have found a good one by talking to a rep. This is a good way to get rid of alot of stuff and make some money to maybe honor your brothers life with a donation to an organization he was fond of-or if you need the money yourself (understandable). First , go thru the home (i know that will be painful), and choose personal and wanted ( by you or others in family) items you wish to keep and remove them. Clean or have home cleaned and set up estate sale. You do not have to be present for this-these companies specialize in this and are insured as well (if reputable). Let them deal with the rest. Very sorry for your loss-there are no words to comfort, only time can heal your hearts-but ease into what needs to be done-try not to rush yourselves- this is never an easy task. Take care.
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An auction is the fastest way to liquidate the estate, but some things may sell for far less than value. One way to help prevent this is to be in attendance at the auction. If you know the value of the items you are concerned about, you can bid on them yourself to ensure that they fetch an acceptable price. This should be done sparingly as regular auction attenders frown on it and may resist bidding if they know they are bidding against the house. You may end up buying some of the items back this way and will have to sell them yourself after the auction.
The professional estate sale is a little slower, and tended to cost a bit more in fees. Some professional estate liquidators will buy anything that did not sell during the sale and attempt to sell it latter, but not many will do this. Things that don’t sell are usually your problem.
A garage sale is also of course possible, but takes a lot of your time.
The last way I can think of is eBay. If you do not want to list the items on eBay your self, there are companies that will take the items and do it for you on a commission basis. You can contact a few of them in your aria and see what they will do. If you have an entire estate, they may even come to you.
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Hi
go and remove anything of value or of sentimentality to you and call in house clearance but it will cost you some charge a lot.or just hire a skip and dump it in the skip or skips.
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