What to do with Furniture when you sell…
January 11, 2008 by Gordon Corsie · Leave a Comment
A question I am asked frequently especially by folks moving out of town, downsizing or just wanting to leave furniture behind, what to do with it?
Here is my own experience. Last month my wife and I decided we had had enough of our large wooden sleigh bed, it was no longer in style and the head and bottom board made it difficult to make the bed (try lifting a king size mattress by yourself) . The solution? We dismantled the bed and took it to the home consignment store in San Ramon. The friendly staff there unloaded it for us and the ladies had it tagged and the paperwork drawn up in minutes.
They will take 40% of the sale, so what I say, they sold it and we just received our check which paid for the new comforter set my wife wanted.
So if you can transport your furniture to San Ramon, they will sell it for you quickly!
Much better than haggling with the buyer of your house over a dinette set and causing ill will. Never allow personal property to sour a Real Estate Purchase please!
You know the best part from a scotsmans point of view is that the consignment store is where we bought the bed used in the first place and we sold it after 8 years for about half of what we paid…not bad if I say so myself.
When sellers are getting ready to sell and if they could use some staging help, perhaps they need artwork, then the consignment store is the place to find almost new art pieces of various sizes at reasonable prices. Often new home tracts empty their model home furnishings into consignment stores like this and so it can be a great place to find a deal!
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