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Contact Info
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Phone:
802-747-9966
Email:
sales@dbyersrealestate.com
Mailing Address:
Denise Byers
Wynn Realty
202 N. Main St
Rutland, VT 05701
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Garage Sales
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If you’re thinking about selling your house in the near future,
holding a garage sale is a great first step. It serves several
purposes:
1. Rids your house of clutter. A home with less clutter is easier
for a CRS Designated REALTOR® to sell.
2. Gives you some extra cash. When you’re getting ready to move,
extra money is always helpful.
3. Helps you get acquainted or re-acquainted with your neighbors.
When your home is for sale, maybe one of your neighbors or one of
their friends will be interested.
4. Decreases your moving costs because you’ll have fewer boxes to
move or pack.
How to Start
Go through one room at a time. If you have a family, ask each of
them to help by looking through their own stuff, especially in their
closets and drawers for items they no longer use or no longer care
about.
Clothing
It’s tough to get rid of clothing because of personal attachments or
memories. Ask yourself these questions:
• When did I last wear this? If it’s longer than a year, place it in
the garage sale pile.
• Does it have a stain? If you have tried to get the stain out and
cannot, give it away or if it’s a very visible stain, throw it out.
• Am I still comfortable wearing this? Sometimes we can’t seem to
get rid of something but don’t like wearing it. If that’s the case,
get rid of it.
• Does it fit? If the clothing item is two sizes too small, don’t
wait to wear it until you lose weight, especially if you have held
onto it for a long time.
• Children’s clothing and toys are especially popular at garage
sales. So be sure to include any clothing or toys that your child or
children have outgrown or don’t play with anymore.
Of course, there are special occasion clothing that you may want to
save such as wedding dresses, baptismal gowns, etc. It’s your
day-to-day clothing that you need to examine carefully.
Housewares
If you have duplicate houseware items, select the better one and get
rid of the other. Be sure your small appliances work correctly. If
they don’t work, you may have to throw them out as opposed to sell
them in a garage sale.
China, Trinkets and Valuables
Do you have more china than you ever use? Do you have odds and ends
that relatives have given you over the years but you never have
used? Do you hold on to trinkets not because you like them but
because they may be valuable? Real estate agents like CRS Designees
advise you to either sell them online through a service such as eBay
or sell them through a consignment shop.
Furniture/Equipment
If you plan on moving to a smaller home or completely changing your
decorating scheme, now is the time to get rid of furniture.
Otherwise you’ll pay to move furniture that you’ll soon get rid of.
CRS Designees advise you to keep family heirlooms and furniture that
you know you’ll use. Otherwise, sell it in the garage sale.
Furniture is a big seller. If it’s in good shape, your castaway is
someone else’s treasure. However, if you want to get rid of an
antique, sell it on eBay. Equipment is another hot seller. Do you
have bikes, treadmills or exercise equipment that you’re not using?
Sell it because it could be someone’s treasure.
Organize and Decide on Prices
Once you have determined what your family is selling in the garage
sale, sort items by categories, e.g., clothing, toys, furniture,
housewares. Arrange these items together on tables, bookshelves and
mobile clothes racks. If you have tables, clothes racks and
bookshelves to display items, that’s great. If not, see if you can
borrow some from family or friends.
Determine the costs of items you’re selling based on estimates from
lists of donated items. You should be able to find these booklets
through your tax accountant, the IRS or groups like the Salvation
Army. Be sure price stickers are placed on all items and are clearly
visible.
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