Sell Before You Move

Mechanically it is the same channel. The difference is that we do it all day and you do not. We price against what things have actually sold for locally rather than what other people are asking, we write listings that answer the questions before they are asked, and we absorb the volume of messages — most of which go nowhere. We also screen buyers before they are given your address, and we are physically present at pickup. Most people who try this themselves stop not because it does not work, but because of the no-shows and the lowball messages.

Only into the part of it where the item is, only at a time you have agreed, and never while you are on your own. We schedule pickups into set windows rather than letting them happen all week, and we are there for them. If you would rather not have buyers in the house at all, we can extract everything to storage and sell it from there instead — it costs more, and for most people it is not necessary, but it is a genuine option.

A non-refundable setup fee to start, set out in your written quote. After that we retain 15% of the net sale price — what the buyer paid, less sales tax and marketplace fees — and you keep 85%. There is no extraction fee and no storage fee, because nothing is moved and nothing is stored.

Listings go live within about a week of the walkthrough. Ordinary household furniture in good condition often moves within days; unusual or higher-value pieces need several weeks of exposure to reach the buyer who actually wants them. If you have a month or more before the move, most of a house can clear in that window. If you have two weeks, expect to sell the easy things and make a plan for the rest.

It never becomes a problem you discover on moving day. We tell you honestly, before the deadline, what is not going to sell, and you choose: donation with itemised receipts for your taxes, extraction to storage so it can keep selling after you have gone, or removal and disposal. What we will not do is leave a half-empty house and a shrug.

Usually, and the arithmetic is easy to check. Movers price by weight, so ask yours for their per-pound rate and compare it against what a piece is worth used. A heavy dresser can genuinely cost more to transport than to replace at the other end. Storage is worse, because it is a recurring cost on something that is losing value the whole time it sits there. Selling in place removes both costs and adds the sale price on top.

We work across Charlotte and the surrounding metro — Mecklenburg, plus Union, Cabarrus, Gaston and Iredell counties and York County in South Carolina. Being local matters here: buyers on these marketplaces are searching by distance, and a listing they can reach in twenty minutes sells for more than the same item an hour away.