Estate sales not just for after a death - Bend Bulletin

-- returnText2 = Matt Zachary sat down to eat his lunch at a wrought-iron dining room table in the living room of a southeast Bend home he hoped to sell for $350. He took a quick break to help a customer load a dresser into the back of her car... Lately, Zachary said his business and the region’s other estate/moving sale companies have been swamped with clients who, rather than deal with a recently deceased parent or loved one’s estate, are trying to get rid of their possessions so they... The three D’s. Generally speaking, Zachary said his clients call him when they’re experiencing one of “the three D’s” — death, divorce and downsizing — and want to empty a home without having to put in the time or effort it takes to go through its... “This is a very personal business,” said Zachary, who’s been in the local estate sales business for almost 20 years. He said the owner of the southeast Bend home, where he held last week’s sale, kept it furnished after her husband died so she could rent. Source: www.bendbulletin.com