Working document
The estate sale week run sheet
One page that carries a household job from the intake walk-through to the settlement check, in the order the work actually happens.
Free resources
Resources for estate sale companies
Working tools for the parts of the job nobody teaches you: what a house really pays, how long the pricing pass takes, and how to leave a family satisfied.
Estate sale work is learned in other people's houses. There is no apprenticeship, no standard contract and no agreed answer on what a full colonial should cost to clear. Most operators build their method from a first job that went badly and a second one that nearly went worse, then run it for a decade without ever comparing notes.
This section is the comparing of notes. Calculators for the arithmetic behind a quote, straight comparisons of the tools already sitting on your truck, and a run sheet that carries a household from the intake walk-through to the settlement check. Take what fits your market and ignore the rest.
Free tools
Free calculators for estate sale companies
Two quick tools for the numbers that decide a job, one about what the sale pays you and one about whether you can price the house before preview night.
Comparisons
How EstateTagSale compares to what is already on your truck
Most estate sale companies end up with a listing site, a card reader and a Sunday night spreadsheet, so the real question is which piece each one is honestly doing.
Main guide
How do I price a whole house in two days without stalling the entire setup crew?
It settles how to price an entire household in two working days without stalling the crew or guessing on the twenty lots that actually carry the sale.
Magazine
The Tag Room
Pricing, sale day operations, settlement and the business of clearing a household for the companies that do it every weekend.
About
Who writes all of this
The author page: who writes these pages, how many households she has tagged, priced and settled, and why the family statement gets more attention here than anything that happens at the register.
Everything here works on a clipboard
The run sheet and the calculators are meant to be used on paper in a driveway, and plenty of estate sale companies operate that way for a decade. What gets genuinely painful on paper is the tagged lot catalog, the markdown ladder at checkout across three sale days, and the itemized statement a probate attorney reads line by line. A demo covers those three and stops there.