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Cummings & Associates ...AVQ Are Your Go To Experts


How To Succeed & Profit: Hire The Cummings & Associates Team As Your Personal Agents

Are you facing the grave responsibility of being the representative of a loved one's estate....Facing downsizing yourself or helping a parent? The Cummings & Associates team here at A Value Quest are dedicated to providing you with the skills and expertise, you need. Serving the Northwest and Oregon since 1987, we are not liquidators. We are our clients agents providing you with the information, the teamwork you need from start to finish. Our qualifications as valuation market experts and marketing specialists, our longtime reputation for excellent sales and amazing staff make us #1 in the field.
Estate Sales — Antique Items for Sale for Appraisal in Eugene, OR
Our Cummings and Associates team provide our clients with:

• Information & Estate Consultation Advice
• Professional Estate, Probate, or IRS Estate Appraisals*
• Full Professional Estate Sale Services 
• Estate Sale Pricing, Expert Marketing, Staging & Sale Advice

From our first meeting with you and being hired, We are not estate sale “liquidators”. If you retain an estate “liquidator”, that is what you are very likely going to get. By definition it means to get rid of, to move quickly. In hiring Cummings & Associates, you are hiring an advocate team to work with you every step of the way for your best benefit.  

Clients with valuable antiques, art, and belongings especially appreciate our market value and marketing expertise.
*Note: For professional appraisal estate assignments, ethically we have to remain unbiased in providing correct market.  

The Baby Boom Downsizing Dilemma 
Downsizing Estate Sales… Selling Your Life’s Treasures

Downsizing amongst the huge baby boomer generations is becoming a reality. Couple that with an uncertain economy, and the younger generation's disinterest in most things traditional and we have a challenge to overcome. Downsizing sales are flooding the market in most areas so excellent staging, marketing, and service are essential elements to an estate sale.

Downsizing is a very personal, often painful process of choosing which of your lifetime treasures, of memories you will no longer have room to care for and display. Often your kids and grandkids do not have any interest in caring for and receiving your beloved belongings. So what to do? How to do? Who to contact for help and who can you trust to properly handle the sale of your belongings? Our Cummings & Associates team can help!

If you choose to do it yourself, we can provide you with advice, consultation, and pricing items for you. If you have family/friends to help you, doing your own downsizing garage sale or estate sale is a viable alternative that will put control in your hands. It depends on what you have to sell. It depends on the expertise needed to properly evaluate, merchandise, stage, staff and sell your belongings. .

I, Randeen, am an appraiser, have been an antique dealer for many years, a mall manager, and have been an estate sale agent and representative for 30+ years. A recent move of my office and home required downsizing. I can tell you, with all my estate appraising and estate sale experience, it was still painful, still personal so I can totally identify with you.
My associate team experts (Sonja & Terra) and staff are complimented continuously by our clients and customers alike for their expertise, caring, and service.  

What we provide for our clients:

If you would rather hire an estate sale agent, please contact us for a consultation. We want to know what your needs and goals are and how we can work with you to meet them.  
  • We have provided many testimonials and recommendation on this A Value Quest website, but can provide others for you. We will work with you as your personal team from start to finish.  
  • You will be welcome at the sale if you want to be there. Many estate sale liquidators do not allow the client or family at the sale.  
  • We do special and unique merchandising above and beyond the normal practice. Our marketing strategy is targeted 
  • We do individual 3 party receipts with full disclosure accounting, again not the normal practice with estate liquidators. Our accounting is the outstanding.
  • Our contract is clear and concise for your and our protection. Beware of vague, unspecific contracts or no contract
  • Our qualified certified appraisal valuation skills and long time exposure to the estate sale market are part of our service for correct identification and pricing.. 
  • We are available anytime to answer your concerns, questions and suggestions. before, during, after the sale communicate them. Make sure the accounting is specified as down to the penny and each sale individualized and clearly identified. These are some of the essentials you need to be aware of.
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