Selling Costs

[Barbara Richmond]

Aw, Mr. (big heart) Bill, you're such a swell guy.  ;-)

If you don't think it's going to go fast, maybe you could help her out by
trying to find a friendlier storage situation.  Is there some indiviual or
some institution that would have room & could be paid for the storage?   I
don't think you should have to pay for any of the set-up fees.  It *is* her
piano and you are already helping her by trying to get it sold.

Of course, you're the one who knows what the situation is..........

Boy, was that helpful or what?


Barbara Richmond, RPT


PS  Sort of an amusing story:  My brother-in-law, the lawyer, took on a pro
bono case where a poor woman was going to be thrown out of her rented house
for non-payment of the lease.  He actually talked the owner of the house 
into giving the woman the place!  (Man, he's good!)  What did she do?  As 
soon as she owned it, she put it up for sale!



> William Ballard yardbird@vermontel.net
> Thu, 12 May 2005 07:52:16 -0400
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> I looked at a beautiful HF Miller grand at a mover's warehouse
> yesterday which really deserves a new home, and I am going to be
> trying real hard for its current owner. The problem is, the piano is
> in storage, and for anyone (and that includes myself yesterday) to
> look at it, the owner will incur a $56 set-up fee by the warehouse.
> Certainly this wouldn't be a problem if there were someone else to
> sell the piano out of, and it may come to that. But for the time
> being, I'm trying to figure out how (and if) the owner and I should
> handle the set-up fee for each showing.
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> With what I saw of the piano, any customer I might interest could be
> 80% sold on the piano just on my description, allowing me to order a
> set-up only to close that final 20% of the deal. Coordinating buyers
> so that more than one of them could see the piano for a single set-up
> is not something I'm counting on.
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> So I'd been thinking that I'd pay 1/3 or 1/2 the set-up for any
> showing I scheduled which didn't pan out, not have to pay for the one
> which did, and if the owner sold the piano separately, not pay for
> any of them (on the assumption, that her sale was saving her the
> commission costs to me).
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> I'm probably being too nice a guy to be offering to pay out pocket
> what is really an expense caused by her circumstances. But I though
> I'd check with the assembled wisdom here.
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> Bill Ballard RPT
> NH Chapter, P.T.G.
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> "You'll make more money selling my advice than following it"
>     ...........Steve Forbes, quoting his father, Malcom
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