Planning an estate sale can be challenging financially, physically, and emotionally. Whether it's endowment planning, letting go of a loved one, moving to a new home, or some other special event in your life, we can help make your transition go smoothly by expertly organizing your sale while fulfilling our mission to make a difference in our world.
Our team has over 50 years of combined resale experience. By offering this service, we share our skills and successes in resale to support and honor fellow animal and nature lovers as their life legacy is observed or during one's time of need and change.
A free consultation is provided at the property where the estate sale would be held. We will conduct a walk through with you to assess, discuss, and agree upon any details associated with the donation or endowment of the estate. If the sale is to take place immediately, we will suggest sale dates based on the time needed to properly organize and advertise the sale. After the consultation, a service contract is drawn up detailing the scope of our services specific to your sale and the donation or endowment process.
We believe in recycling through resale. We love re-homing items and through experience, we have learned that what may appear to have no resale value to one may be very desirable to another. After all, one man's trash is another man's treasure! We also participate in numerous recycling programs to help keep items out of landfills and have many outlets for items that are unsalable.
Fringe Benefits is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Please ask your accountant or legal advisor about any tax-deductions that may be available to you.
We are proud to serve the Sheboygan County area and are fully licensed/insured and will take care of you from the very beginning of your sale to the very end. This includes: sorting, organizing, pricing and displaying all merchandise, advertising and adequately staffing your sale. We will also pack and transport any remaining merchandise after your sale if it's held on-site should you choose to donate it to Fringe Benefits Thrift Store. Traditionally, sales are help onsite at the estate in which the items are located, though we understand there are times when that is not an option so the items being donated or endowed can be removed and featured in the store.
We are currently only accepting donated or endowed estate sales. All proceeds benefit our mission.
Every estate is unique and we have learned to be adaptable, resourceful, and creative in an effort to increase the success of any sale. We have the ability to tailor each sale to showcase its uniqueness. We work with you while planning the sale so that you're completely comfortable and at ease with every decision. We are confident that by using our service you will be satisfied with the process and outcome.
No, we do not. We keep our sales unique to each and every individual legacy.
No. You do not need to be at the sale, nor do you need to be there while we are organizing for your sale to be held.
The time it takes to have a sale depends on the size and overall challenge of the sale. Organizing your sale takes several steps. First, we have to schedule your free consultation which will be held on-site where the sale is to be held. Then, we must enter the service contract agreement. These two steps take an average of one week. Next, we must prepare to have your sale by cleaning, sorting, pricing, displaying and advertising - this takes a minimum of 3 weeks. We will give you a more precise time frame upon your free consultation.
Within reason, we will clean before and after the sale. We have a waste removal clause in our service contract agreement and will clear away enough debris for a sale to be held. We are not responsible for paperwork, food or toiletry items, or hazardous waste materials that require special disposal (such as florescent bulbs, tires, harmful chemicals, etc). Upon completion of the sale, we will leave the property in an orderly fashion so that it is ready for sale or otherwise.
The best thing you can do to prepare for the sale is to remove all personal property (family photos, documents, etc.) or contain it an area that can be sectioned off from the public during the sale. You can also rid the property of obvious waste. We ask that you leave the rest of the sorting to us. As experts in the field of resale, we will determine what is sellable and what is not.
Yes, at your request we will conduct a final walk through with you. Please know that it is very important to us that the appearance and outcome of your estate sale meets or exceeds your expectations.
At times there are. Please speak with your accountant about all tax-deduction benefits applicable to your situation.
By using our service you have the opportunity to donate any left over goods (tax-deductible) to Fringe Benefits Thrift Store. Please note Fringe Benefits may not be able to take all remaining items. We will leave onsite any items we cannot take to our store.
We are more than happy to leave on-site any items you wish to keep.
We require a minimum 7 business days to clean up after a sale.
Yes, you will receive a
copy of our contracted agreement.Upon completion of the sale and at your request, we will provide you with a written summary of the sale.
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