Auction Power Guide

Any ideas for what I could make out of wooden pallets & sell at my house or on ebay?

Bird houses, spice racks, chairs, benches, cabinets, solar dehydrators, etc. Nearly anything you could make out of wood.

Wood is heavy and you may find your sales very slow on eBay since the shipping prices would be high. You may consider yard sales, flea markets, farmers markets, etc. Craigslist is a possibility if you live in a large city or town.

I wouldn’t mind having a couple more free standing kitchen cabinets myself right now. You can also take advantage of the current number of ‘preppers’ out there by building solar dehydrators. They will be large and bulky but if advertized correctly you will find a good market for them.

Someone please help, I’m going crazy. We live in a non judicial state. Auction to sell our house is set for 12-4-09. We are unemployed at the present time and will not be able to keep our house and have accepted that. But since the auction is in December and we really have no place to go until January, is there anything an attorney can do to delay the auction for a month or two. Please I am asking for serious answers only. This is hard enough to loose our home after trying desperately to save our house.

Since you currently have no way of paying the mortgage because of lack of income you are out of luck unless you can show a your lender that you have even the slightest chance of making the loan good.

Declaring bankruptcy would delay the foreclosure a couple of months, but that will cost your at least $2500 in attorney and legal fees. Sorry to say this but your situation is hopeless unless you can provide the lender a reasonable expectation that you will be able to resume payments, even modified payments, in the near future.

I’m considering hosting an auction to sell my house; that seems like an interesting option.
I would like details outlining how this is done.
Thank you.

There is a book called How to Sell Your Home in 5 Days by Bill G. Effros that tells you how to hold a successful auction of your home. I have read it an it sounds like an interesting way to sell your house but it doesn’t sound like the smartest or best way to sell your house.

Do you want to sell it at auction because it would be fast or because you think it will get the most money? Are you trying to avoid paying a commission? Do you have financial troubles and the auction is the cheapest way to sell?

I think you need to figure out why you want to sell it by auction and not by owner or with the help of a professional Realtor though.