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Originally Posted by CoachKandSportsguy
If you are selling the house as well, just advertise a fully furnished price, or about $5,000 more for a fully furnished house. . . the buyer might take it. Friends of ours bought a house with all the previous owner's stuff. They kept quite abit, and junked, straight to the recycle center all the worthless stuff. .
easiest way is to just get three quotes for taking everything. But before you do, create an inventory of the large, big stuff, with approximate age, and condition. Search for online prices, and price out the sales price of what you have. .
Then divide by 3, and assume that is about what you will get from the company to take everything away. . any price greater than that is probably a good deal. . a house which cost $20,000 to furnish today, is probably worth about $5,000 today at 20 years old at retail prices.
1/3 of that to have it taken away for someone else to sell. . They have to store and transport it to sell, and there is time to get it all sold. . . time is money and they want to make some profit.
good luck
as an example, at coachk's parent's BARN sale, there were two yard sales, and the good stuff sold. The third yard sale was free, and a couple of items were taken. . the remainder completely filled rented dumpster on site. . total take was about $3,000
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Well said! My first home in The Villages I bought with all the furniture, and the sellers even left behind bedding and some old towels. It was very nice furniture. When I moved to a courtyard villa, though, I left nearly all of it behind except a desk. The new owners were happy to have it. When I moved here four years ago, I left behind for my buyers a fully furnished house, with televisions, bedding, towels, lots of tools, cutlery, a thousand books and lots of bookshelves, a couple hundred DVDs. All included.
When I bought that house, it was also furnished, but the house needed extensive restoration, including removing the ceiling and roof. I just put an ad on Craig’s List for free furniture at a specific time and date. Everything was gone within an hour, including an old electric stove that went to a high school props department and an old coal stove that went to a guy living in a cabin somewhere.
Consider that if you have this large and disruptive sale, your share of sales may be only $1,000. Now consider that there are people who don’t have a bed or a dining room table or chairs who would LOVE to have yours if it were all free. Even some pots and pans and baking sheets are more than many people have. Sure, some might resell it. So what? Why not skip the aggravation? Then call some company that will take anything to come take what is left.