Settling a parent's Bonita Springs home from another state starts with one question: who can be there when you cannot? If you live out of state, you don't always have the time or resources to be here in Florida. At Judy's Jewelry in Fort Myers, we handle the estate sale from start to finish, so your family does not need to be present during the sale or clean the home first. Our first meeting happens at the house itself, because we make house calls for estates.
Call Us Before Anything Leaves The House
Call us before anything in the house is hauled away or given away, because we look through the entire estate, the everyday things included. Worn household things such as old clothing and kitchen pots are among what sells at an estate sale. The home needs no cleaning before we come, and your family needs no outside valuations, because we do the evaluation ourselves. Whatever questions your family has about the sale, we go through them all with you at one time.
The Things Your Family Is Keeping
The things your family is keeping can stay in the house until they are picked up later. Whatever your family tells us it is keeping, we leave out of the sale. You decide what stays in the family, and we price the rest and offer it for sale. If a ring your family keeps needs to fit a new hand, we can resize it or turn it into a new design at our Fort Myers counter.
Our Walkthrough, Staging And Pricing
On the first visit, we walk through the home room by room and evaluate the estate in its current condition. The sorting and pricing of the contents are our job, so your family never has to set a single price. Each item is priced on its condition and rarity, measured against current market demand. Staging an estate sale means setting up tables and displays and making pathways so shoppers can move from room to room. The staging and organizing are ours too, so on opening day each room is set out and ready to shop.
In the sales we run, we price so that all price points are represented, from modest household goods up to high-value estate jewelry. We also set out as much variety as the estate holds. Items of modest value offered alongside pieces of higher value are what get shoppers up early in the morning to come to a sale. That is why the kitchen dishes and the garage tools have their place in the sale beside the dining room silver. Alongside the shoppers who find the sale, we keep a list of buyers who look for merchandise on a regular basis.
The Jewelry And Silver In The House
At an estate sale, fine jewelry and sterling silver go in a locking glass case or on the checkout table, so shoppers have to ask to see them. In your parent's home, that could mean a ring from a dresser drawer or a silver tea service from the dining room. When we run your sale, we price those pieces ourselves, and estate and antique jewelry is what we buy and sell at our Fort Myers counter. Pricing the jewelry and silver is the part of an estate sale where an antique jeweler brings the most to your family.
Trusting Us With Your Parent's Home
Letting someone run a sale inside your parent's home is a matter of trust, and more so from another state. For that reason, we provide references for our estate-sale work to any family that asks for them. Those references come from complete estate sales we have handled from start to finish, the same job we take on in Bonita Springs. We specialize in helping families who live out of state.
Schedule A House Call In Bonita Springs
Call Judy's Jewelry in Fort Myers at (239) 481-9600 to schedule a house call at the home in Bonita Springs. That visit is where we see the estate as it stands today and where your sale begins to take shape. From there, we take care of the sale while you stay where you are.
