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But remember you must go through things first and remove any sensitive papers and information, pictures, etc. Also don't bother going through bathrooms as you'll be shocked that opened shampoo, mouthwash, and pantry items sell. It's crazy. Use your time to go through the important sensitive stuff.
Also, I found that because mom had dementia she had hidden money and jewelry in random places so I did have to at least open and look in every drawer, nook and cranny. Dad netted about $2000-3000 for the excess that didn't go to AL with them. All worth it since I didn't have to pay anyone to haul off the trash.
It would take forever to go through what you have. Wish you the best!
Then in 2020, when my father passed on a Saturday evening, my DH and I were there on Sunday to empty his room in a hurry. We had learned with my mom, the ALF kept charging $150 per day after death until the room is cleaned out. Had to wear masks the whole day as they were on Covid lockdown. He had SO much worthless junk and had trashed his room as well. We filled up their dumpster to overflowing and anything small, paper, photos went in boxes to sort at home. I didn't know what we might find. He had wanted his beloved Rotary International President's ring and watch to go to my brothers, and they didn't even want them, so my DH sold them at a pawn shop and got about $100. Everything else was old, broken or worthless trash, not even donatable. Best thing was the insurance policies, as they went right towards our inheritance.
maybe sort before hand into
throw- charity- expensive items to sell
maybe a friend can help you
or if costs allow storage/park fur you to re catch your breathe and strength ?
do you have anyone who can store good items for a set period ?
any family relatives that you want to give anything to
good luck
its not an easy task - end of day it’s your personal decision - maybe check with any family members if they want anything - keepsake - or just be able to appreciate it?
On the other hand, my Son-in-Law's parents were hoarders, and no one wanted to touch the place, One of their storage units, they had 2, had nothing but empty boxes in it. Some rooms were so full of trash you couldn't walk into them. However, as they were cleaning the rooms out, they found many things of value. This week they are finally getting all the stuff out of the house so they can sell it. There were diamond rings, and a lot of brand new unboxed stuff they got from places like QVC that they never unboxed,
The bank told me about one place where people hide money is in prescription medicine bottles, they roll up money and stick it in the empty container.
I recommend you go with what you see, Every situation is different.
Estate sale companies that we contacted when we cleaned out my mom's house were looking to sell estates with high value items like coins, jewelry and guns, so that did not work out for us. We did find an online auction company called Maxsold . com which I highly recommend! At the end of the two weeks that we worked with them, everything was gone except for a desk, a wall unit and a book case. Those were easy to donate after. It was amazing how much stuff vanished during our auction and my mom received a check in the end for what was sold.
I strongly suggest that someone, a family member go through each unit looking for things that were put away for "safe keeping" Money, old family documents, and the occasional real treasure.
If you take each unit 1 by 1 the task is not so daunting.
Honestly if you do not care about any of the "stuff" and want nothing to do with it most storage unit places do auction off "abandoned" units. You would get nothing but you would not be paying on them any longer either.
This is not something that I would suggest just because you do not know what might be hidden away.
But to answer the basic question.. "can you sell at any price". If this is an Estate and the owners are dead and all debts have been paid that need to be paid off then you can sell at any price.
Had tables, $1.00-$10.00. Estate sales, not one was interested in taking one on due to the limited value of the product.
When my inlaws went into facilities and lost their home to foreclosure I went through all their stuff. My SFIL had some nice and interesting vintage items and some antiques. After having it on craigslist for a while (there was no FB Marketplace or Nextdoor.com back then) and getting worn down from selling things one by one, I decided to sell it in bulk. I took pictures of some of the most interesting items and then a picture of the mountain of all of it in my garage and said Best Offer for everything. It sold right away and I didn't have to price anything or fix or clean anything.
Go to Estatesales.net and find a local company with good reviews in Philly, and call them for guidance.
Good luck.
But if you are the one who is executor and are handling the estate you can gather and eliminate and put the funds from that in an account however you choose best to do it.
So I called the Salvation Army which came to get the furniture. The glassware, paintings, misc items in prestine condition when to a hospital rummage sale. Items in great to very good condition Goodwill took. And you would be surprised how many items I placed at curb side with a note saying FREE were picked up. Now a days, one can post photos of items For Sale/Free on NextDoor.com. Best to sell for cash compared to using Zelle or any of those on-line payment apps, heard too many issues of scams.