Reply to Clearing out house in Fairfax county

Forum Index » Eldercare

Reply to "Clearing out house in Fairfax county"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can do your own estate sale. Post on FB Marketplace, Nextdoor , signs, etc.

You'll be pleasantly surprised how much foit traffic you'll get. No overhead from hiring an estate sale company. Whatever is leftover, call the junk guys[/quote]

This is what I did with my parents house in a cross-country cleanout. Invited an "estate sale" company to come and check out the house (they will tell you if you will end up making money or owing them money to get rid of stuff). Not enough "good" stuff in my parents house to be worth it for a company to manage an estate sale.

So,

1. went through the house and boxed up any important papers/photos/sentimental items (we ended up mailing most of this stuff to our home, but you could also just stick it in storage to be dealt with later).
2. Invited family/friends to come and take anything they wanted from the house (first come/first serve).
3. organize house for estate sale and advertise estate sale (pull things out of drawers/set up stuff on tables/etc.)--we just let everyone walk through the house and garage
4. following weekend we had a "free" sale
5. did a final push to get rid of all trash that would be taken by trash pickup and then called a junk hauling place to take away everything else.

This is A LOT of work. But, you are going to need to go through the house anyway to make sure you have found paperwork, sentimental items you may want/need. Depending on how much crap there is, this could take a while. It isn't that much additional work to organize the room for a sale where people just walk through.
[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics