It Was Only Junk
Richard Old Despite my advice that people spend 100% of their time dealing with the items that they want to keep, the first thing they usually do is to throw things away.…
Stories
After This, It Is All Easy
The year was 1982. The little house on the corner looked like so many more across America…stuff stacked up to the tops of the windows, boxes stacked on the front…
Brother Knows Best!!
I was out of town on a business trip when I received a call from my wife. She had received a panicked call from a woman, at one of the…
A Case Study In How Not To Do Things
The four story Victorian home had been built in the 1890s for one of the first professors at Washington State College. He raised his family there and stored everything that…
There are Some People You Just Can’t Help…
I was preparing to hold a sale in a nearby town, when a lady driving by saw the sign on my truck and stopped to talk. She had grown up…
Most Common Mistakes
The lessons in the stories above are repeated throughout the country every day. Everyone in the business faces the same problems. A local auctioneer once said ” In most cases…