What do we do with all this stuff?
- Bee Well
- Feb 5, 2019
- 2 min read
Updated: Apr 8
When a parent moves into a senior care aging facility or passes away, many times, it can leave their surviving children wondering what to do with all of the personal effects their parent amassed over the years. Most people don’t even think about this until they find themselves responsible for dealing with the property.
Since money is often a concern for adult children who are dealing with a parent in a nursing home, or the estate of a parent who has passed away, selling off unwanted property in an estate sale can be an excellent way to generate cash flow. While it may not be easy to think about selling off the property of a parent, this is something that every family has dealt with, one way or another. Fortunately, there are now services that promise to help with every step of the estate sale process, from initial cataloging and sorting all the way through to the final sale. Bee Well Consultants can help assist you in the recommendations of these services.
If you have ever organized an estate sale, you may know that there are several benefits to working with a professional senior estate sale service. The most important thing to understand is it can save you massive amounts of time. Remember that dealing with a senior parent’s estate is more than just packing up and shipping out. If you plan on raising cash to pay debts or commitments of the estate, you’ll need to spend the time to catalog and price the property for sale, advertise the sale to draw as big a crowd as possible, negotiate with potential buyers, and figure out solutions for any property that can’t be sold.
Senior estate sale services have an expertise in buying and selling that allows them to negotiate top dollar for the property being sold. Trying to sell something you don’t know anything about may result in much smaller profits than allowing a professional to properly research and price valuable property.
When you speak to a Bee Well consultant, we will direct you to companies that conduct a reputable senior estate sale service. The companies we recommend have developed deep rooted professional working relationships with respected providers throughout the senior care and senior service industries and we have the resources available to match you with a senior estate sale service that you can depend on.
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