At some point, you may want to start downsizing your home. Or you may have to sort through your childhood home after the death of a parent.
"It's an emotional process," Harris said."It's difficult for them to go through each and every drawer and closet in the home and reminisce on those items.""We take pictures of the items in the home, and we put them on our auction site, and people go online and bid," she said."It's also a lot less traffic in the home," she said,"so you don't have the public knowing the address where the house is, or maybe the house is vacant.
You also want to make sure their workers are qualified to appraise certain items and check the company's website for quality photos."It's like dismantling my mother's life, which is very hard," Haas said."And to know that someone else might appreciate a teapot or a painting or a chair just warms our heart."