A Beginner's Guide To Estate Sales

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If you are a beginner in the estate sales industry, it can be difficult to know where to start. Rest assured, though: you don't need to be an expert! As long as you have a little knowledge and some basic tactics, you will be able to make money selling at estate sales. In fact, many experienced estate sale professionals started out as beginners.

1. The first step in selling an estate is preparing the house for sale. You'll need to clean the house and make sure that all of its contents are clean and organized. You may also want to ask a professional cleaning company to come in and make sure that there are no hazardous materials left around or any problems with the water supply or plumbing systems. Once the house is ready, you can list it on Zillow or another online real estate site where people can view photos and virtual tours of homes for sale across the country.

2.Choose your market carefully. Estate sales are very popular in certain areas of the country, so if there is a large population in your area that needs to sell its homes quickly, there may be more opportunity for you than if people are selling their homes because of financial problems or divorce.

3.Inventory everything that goes on sale at an estate sale. furniture, clothing, books, electronics even pets! If there's something that someone would pay good money for but doesn't make sense for someone else to buy (like an old piano), sell it at an estate sale instead of throwing it away (and paying $500+!). The value will go up after everyone has seen it and been able to play with it firsthand!
 
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