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Creating a Work From Home Business Buying From Antique and Collectible Estate Sales

� Understanding The Value....

The art of buying and selling is in knowing your products you have for sale. Understanding the value is of the utmost importance, this will determine if you are leaving money on the table or not. The whole process of collecting is a learning curve, the longer you have been collecting the more knowledge you will acquire in your items you are collecting. After years of collecting and being around the business, many turn to buying and selling just to help offset the expense of collecting as a hobby.

� Attending The Estate sales....

If you're in the market of buying and selling antiques and collectibles and you need to learn about the value of collectibles. There is a great place to add to your list of places to go and learn about the value of antiques and collectibles and that is estate sales.

Estate sales is not always an estate sale. Just because there is an estate sale advertised in the local newspaper, doesn't mean there are antiques and collectibles to buy.

Estate sale is a buzz word for people to use in order to get more people at their glorified garage sales, If the advertisement in the newspaper makes a list of the items for sale and they happen to fall in the category of antiques and collectibles, this would be the first on the list to attend.

Remember, many people when have garage sales are trying to establish a work from home business.

� liquidating The Estate....

There are many private auctioneers hired by the executors of estates to liquidate the contents of the estate. There are several ways to expedite the estate sale. The auctioneer can rent a hall or hold the sale at the residence on of the deceased.

The other option is, the executor of the estate can hire an auction house to handle the estate sale, if that's the case, they can move all the items in the estate to their facilities or they can hold the sale at the home.

Another option is, the executor can make the decision to conduct the estate sale themselves and save the expense of hiring a private auctioneer or the auction house. Auctioneers are required to be licensed in most states. Remember the auctioneer makes his or her living at the selling game, they generally charge a percentage of the sale and they want to drive the price up every time they get the chance, they get paid because they know the value of the antiques and collectibles.

� Making Your List and Checking it Twice....

Most of the estate sales are held from Friday night to Sunday night, occasionally they will have one during the week, check your local newspaper for the times and dates. If you plan to go to the estate sales on the weekends, you need to make your list of sales you want to attend before you strike out on your buying trip.

Know this, that you won't be the only one that is seeking out the estate sales, there will be plenty of other dealers by your side grabbing the same things you're after. The sales that are advertising antiques and collectibles will be hot spots for the dealers. There are sales that won't open until the advertised time, no matter what. Then, there are sales that has everything set out and they won't let you buy a single item.

You can burn valuable time by standing in line waiting for the sale to open, because your standing in line with your completion. Making your list is a judgment call on your part, some of the best sales are the sales that don't advertise antiques and collectibles and by the way, never pass up a mobile home park sale. The mobile home park dwellers are for the most part, are retired people and many have stuff they have collected, for over fifty years and more, you will find some real treasures at the parks.

With enough inventory rotating, you too can create a successful work from home business with some dedication and hard work

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