Father: Where is your mother? Daughter: She is out sailing. Father: What? Where? Daughter: She is hitting yard sales in Scottsdale and Glendale today. Father: Oh. Welcome to the world of yard sailing. It is better than going shopping. You never know what you will find. Maybe today you will find a little Picasso someone thinks is junk or a curio cabinet full of treasures. If you know the value of things, yard sailing can be a profitable business. Yard sales are a buyer’s market for sure. You can talk down the price on almost anything since the main goal of the seller is to get you to pay a few dollars to haul something away for them. Your Business Address US Storage Centers in Peoria is a good business address for a professional yard sailor. After a hard day of sailing, fighting the crowds at the best yard sales, and picking through worthless items at other yard sales in hopes of finding one gem, it is nice to be able to drop everything off at your storage unit before going home and collapsing by the pool with a cool drink in hand. You can go back to your storage unit the next day after recovering, with your digital camera in hand to take close up pictures of your treasures and then posting them online for the real collectors. That Star Wars action figure still in the box that you paid $5 for is really worth $500 by itself and could fetch as much as $1500 to the right collector if it is the one piece he or she is missing. This framed folk-art image is definitely a 19th century work but you can’t make out the artist. It’s a good thing Antiques Roadshow is coming to Phoenix next month; you have always wanted to be the one to show off your $50 find and have it turn out to be worth $20,000. Who knows? Better keep it safe in your storage unit until then. Rotating Your Inventory Like any good business, you need to keep your inventory fresh. It turns out you have a good idea for value only about 85% of the time. That means 15% of your stuff might be worth only what you paid for it. You might want to take it home to make room for the good stuff and have a yard sale of your own. The key is to keep track of the good stuff and make sure it sells as fast as possible. You don’t want to be sitting on your money. Turn around time is your key to a profitable business. Keeping track of your inventory on your home computer and smartphone is a good idea. Determine where you have attempted to sell each item. If it hasn’t moved in a certain amount of time you need to have a strategy where you get your money out of it quickly. Maintaining Your Reputation A good yard sailor works hard to maintain their reputation for knowing value. It makes it easy to sell your items online and in the local outlets when you have the reputation for only picking up the best stuff. Your Peoria self storage unit is your secret though. Nobody will know how you make it look so easy. Reserve your Peoria storage unit today by contacting us at: US Storage Centers 19315 North 83rd Avenue Peoria, AZ 85382 85382 (623) 428-1111
