08-09-2019, 10:06 PM
Markintosh wrote:
While using an estate auction type of place will cost dearly as a percentage of value, they will save a lot of headache in helping separate the wheat from the chaff, and then taking everything at once. Unfortunately much of what parents had treasured was of no value to even local thrift stores. We had to pay to have it hauled away.
Same kind of thing happened with my aunt. She went into assisted living earlier this year, and my sister had the task of going through her stuff and selling it before putting the house up for sale. Stuff that my aunt treasured and thought was worth a lot of money was basically worthless. An estate sale company came and looked at all of it, and declined to take any of it. Furniture, collectibles, etc... all worthless. The only thing anyone wanted was some tools that her late husband had had. His son came and took some of them. She had a hard time finding anyone to take the furniture. Several thrift stores flat out told her they had way too much, and that nobody wanted that kind of stuff anyway.
When my dad passed last year, at least he had downsized several years earlier when my mom had passed. He did remarry, and his new wife took most of the furniture with her to her new place. Which we are thankful for, because I doubt we'd have gotten much if anything for it.