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Estate sale settlement and take home calculator
Put in the numbers from your last full house and see what the family takes, what you keep, and what an hour of crew time on that job was actually worth.
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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.
Most estate sale operators price a job from feel. You walk a four bedroom colonial, look at the garage, look at the basement, and quote a commission. Feel is worth a lot after two hundred houses, but it will not tell you that a heavy accumulation job at your usual rate pays your company less per crew hour than a clean condo at the same percentage.
These two calculators do the arithmetic you would otherwise do on the back of a contract. One takes gross, commission, crew hours and job costs and shows what the family nets, what you net, and what the house paid you per crew hour. The other takes lot count and tagging speed and tells you how many setup days the pricing pass really needs.
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Estate sale setup and tagging day planner
Estimate how many days of tagging a household really needs before preview night, so you stop promising a Friday you cannot hold.
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.
Why the estate sale calculators sit here with no sign up
Right now this arithmetic happens on the back of a contract in somebody's truck. You take a gross you guessed from a walk-through, multiply it by the commission you are about to quote, and subtract a crew hour figure nobody has ever actually counted. The calendar gets the same treatment: a lot count estimated room by room, a tagging speed no tagger has ever been timed at, and a preview night promised to the executor out loud in the driveway. Neither of those numbers is worth a form, so there is not one in front of them.
Take them as their own thing. The settlement math tool gives you what a house paid per crew hour, which is the figure that prices your next heavy accumulation job instead of leaving you to argue for a sliding scale from feel. The setup planner tells you whether the pricing pass fits before preview night, which is the promise that most often breaks a sale week. Write both in the job file, quote from them at the next intake, and close the tab. An operator who knows what her households pay per hour is a better company to talk to a year from now anyway.
A number is only worth having if it changes a quote
Once you know what an hour in that house paid your company, the next question is whether your tagging, checkout and settlement can hold the shape that number implies. A demo shows where those figures come from on a live job: the tagged lot record, the discount ladder applied at checkout, and the family net with detail behind every deduction. Bring the gross and the crew hours you just typed in.