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Russ, we furnished both our homes from craigslist.com.. In the Washington area on the weekend there is 100 new listings an hour. I am sure Boston area is close to the same. So we would search for the items we wanted, go look and when we found what we wanted, buy it. Bring it home and store it in our garage. When we had everything we needed, rented a U-Haul and brought it all down. We did each house for about 5K and that included new mattress from USmattress.com delivered to TV. We did pick up some odds and ends from Bargains and Treasures, purchased area rugs and other items from overstock.com and homedecorators.com.

New furniture loses about 75% of its value when delivered. We were very successful, bought a lot of very high end quality furniture at very reasonable prices.