Whatever your reason for downsizing; planning for the empty nest, cutting back on business overhead, closing your business, renting out or selling the second home, or living through a foreclosure, you will find that you now have a lot of very nice and expensive equipment and furnishings that you don’t need. So what do you do?
Rent a storage unit? Sure but monthly payments to store stuff you don’t need is not financially sound. Plus if you don’t keep up with the rent, you may lose all your furnishings and equipment to a bulk storage unit auction; losing all the prior rent invested too.
Hold a garage sale? That’s it, spend the entire weekend on your driveway. Sure but you will probably end up selling most of your higher value items first and well below their potential market value. As a bonus, you get to haul back in those items you couldn’t sell…lower valued most likely.
eBay and Craig’s list? Great idea as long as you like fishing…for buyers I mean. There’s nothing like waiting weeks for a bite and let’s hope the fish that does bite is not a con-artist. The problem is, because you have grown tired of re-posting your items that have not sold yet, you end up selling it for little or nothing to the first buyer that comes along.
Hold and Estate Sale & Auction?! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! That’s the winning answer. By hiring a professional auction management service like the Interactive Auctions Group, and holding an Estate Sale & Auction from your home, you will be able to:
Generate more interest in your sale.
Pick the date and time, of the sale of your higher valued, auction items.
Pick the open and close times of the entire Estate/Auction Sale and notice that buyers will honor your timeframe.
Bring all interested buyers to the same place and the same time.
Generate competition on your high valued items and get higher bids. Sometimes more than the garage sale price tag you were thinking of.
Sell everything. Usually everything goes even if there is only 1 single bidder for a single lot.
Notice that buyers are honoring the price-tags on your estate sale, non-auction items.
Add to another Auction. Even if there are some items that had no single bidder, you can even work with your auctioneer to add your items to another Estate Sale & Auction.
So when you are downsizing for whatever reason, hold and Estate Sale & Auction. Simplify-Life and contact the Interactive Auctions Group 510-282-6147 for details on setting up your Live, On-Line Estate Sale & Auction.
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