Carols Things Buys Estates and Conducts Estate Sales

Has it become your responsibility to deal with an estate? We can help. We understand this is a difficult time for you and perhaps dealing with an estate is just more than you can handle. We have been in that situation ourselves.

What are my choices? How do I get rid of all this stuff? I want to get the most I can for it. We can help with all of this.

When it comes to disposing of an estate, you have a few choices on how to do it...

1. Handle it all yourself. This means holding an estate sale. The problems with this choice are...
   1. Time. Unless the estate is very small, this requires 1 to 3 weeks of preparation.
   2. Knowledge. Most people don't know what everything is worth so they end up pricing many items too cheap and many items too high. The first day of the sale, your "too cheap" items get snatched up and your "too high" items are left.
   3. You are still stuck with a lot of stuff after the sale. Most of what is left tends to be of little value or were items you had priced too high.
      
      
2. Have an estate auction. This is a good way to make sure you get all the stuff gone, but you might not like how much you get for it. Most of the people who go to the auctions are dealers (we go ourselves all the time). This means they have to buy low enough to make a profit, then you have to pay 25% to 40% of what you get to the auction house. Most people regret this choice after it is over. You end up selling at wholesale and then paying 25% to 40% commission out of that!
   
   
3. Bring in someone like us. We handle estates in 2 different ways.
   1. We can make you a cash offer on everything and if you accept then we pay you and load up everything and that is the end of it. We have to make a profit on what we buy, but we know what most items are worth and we pay a fair price. If you don't like what we offer, then you simply tell us no. This is the fastest way to get through with an estate. Basically we will pay you what we would pay for the items if we bought them at auction ourselves.
      
   2. We can stage an estate sale for you. We do this on a percentage deal and take care of everything. This is a good option if you have some heirs that want to buy some of the items. Yes we get a percentage, but we are selling the items at retail so you end up with more than you would if you had sold at an auction. When the sale is over you will still have stuff left (mostly junk) and we will either make you a cash offer on the remaining items or arrange for them to be sold at a local auction gallery, or donate them to a charity. That will be up to you.
      

Call Carol or Greg today (423) 292-1638