Posted by JD Seller on March 07, 2015 at 07:28:44 from (208.126.198.123):
In Reply to: Packing Up... posted by Steve@Advance on March 06, 2015 at 23:34:21:
Steve : I have done this several times over the years. I had four Great Aunts and Uncles that never married. It fell to me to do what your doing now. Three of the four where hoarders. So we had a lot of stuff to go through with little of it having much value.
You have not stated if your retired or still working full time. If your working full time then your time is limited to how much you can spend verse the money generated.
My one Aunt's was easy. She only lived in a smaller apartment and the only job she had ever done was the cleaning lady for the area Catholic Churches. Very low income so not many valuables other than some family heirlooms. So my first wife and I sorted the stuff over a few weeks of working evenings. Then I rented two enclosed trailers and a dumpster. On one Saturday I hired several high school boys to be pack mules. Keeping stuff went into one trailer. Goodwill stuff went into the other one and the balance went into the dumpster. The keeping stuff was put into a rented storage unit and dispersed over the next six months or so.
In your case it sounds like you have much more to sort through. IF your Mother's house does not have to sell quickly then just start sorting room by room. I would not sort everything before starting to liquidate things. Rent a storage unit or 2 or 3,lol. Then rent a dumpster. So whenever your get a room or two sorted then start hauling. Valuables and items you think will sell well into the storage unit. Junk into the dumpster and donated stuff off to Goodwill or whatever church that does that in your area.
When you get everything sorted out and moved then you can start selling the stuff you think has value. I would start out with a LARGE garage/storage unit sale. Then after that I would go to Graigslist or Ebay. When you down to things that just are not selling , sort it again and keep anything you feel you want and then donate the balance.
Whatever you do will take time to get anyways near the actual value of the stuff. Quick and easy would be an auction but it sounds like there is not enough stuff with value to do that. You also did not say where you located at. This makes a big difference in how house hold auctions go. In my area here house hold auctions rarely sell very high priced stuff.
A thing to remember is the younger generation to day is largely not an auction type buyer of household stuff. They will go to the BOX stores and buy new cheap stuff over the same priced GOOD older stuff.
I have never bough a new chair, couch, or just about any furniture other than mattresses new. Both my wives and myself have gone to auctions and now Graigslsit for the majority of our household stuff. That is not the case with the majority of the younger people today.
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