For everything your family member held onto, there is someone else in the world that will be willing to buy it. You will need to decide if you want to do the sale     yourself or hire a professional. The advantage to doing the sale yourself is you don’t have to pay a percentage of the money to someone else.

However, the true professional will give you a larger number of other advantages such as knowing people who collect certain items or buy entire collections.

Estate sales take time.  Depending on the volume of merchandise, the sale can take from a week to several weeks to get ready. Garage sale mentality will be to slap everything on the floor or on a table.

When having an estate sale, we will take the extra time to clean the better pieces like glassware, pottery, porcelain and nice pieces of furniture. People are more likely to buy items and to pay more for something that looks good and not covered in greasy dust or dirt.

One last thought on having a true professional do your estate sale, they have an established clientele that follow them to the various sales. If you plan on selling the real estate property where the estate sale is being held we will be happy to hand out your real estate agents brochures. 

A professional can relieve so much of the headache and heartache that goes along with an estate sale.  Worrying about display, advertising, security and pricing will become our job and not yours.

Jan Chastain and Kathy Burchfield are your professionals with 20 years of experience.  We can provide you and your family with references of former clients.   We can be contacted by e-mail, jchastain@classicnet.net or orangeklime@aol.com or mrcharlieb31@aol.com    Our phone numbers are 870-867-4119 (Jan) or 870-867-2702 (Kathy).  We look forward to serving you with estate sale or consignment needs.