Has anyone ever tried to sell all their apartment furniture to the next renter?

[imported_Tomato]

My fiance and I are having a tough time making rent, and have decided to move to a cheaper apartment after our lease is up. The problem is, we have a lot of furniture which would be a pain in the butt to move - we'd like to have a fresh start, and were hoping to be able to sell all the furniture in our apartment to the next renter. It's nice furniture, all less than a year old and originally $4,000 total (couch, love seat, bookshelves, coffee table, TV stand, desk, etc.). We'd even throw in the 27" Sony TV, which is less than 2 years old.

Is this possible, and does anyone have any suggestions on how to go about it? Has anyone done this before?

 

[ggavinmoss]

Well since you aren't renting the apartment to the new people (the complex likely is), you may not even know who the renters are.

-geoff

 

[Crucial]

You're having a tough time making rent yet you want to move having to pay security deposit and first months rent at the new place, and have to buy all new furniture for the new place. This doesn't make any sense.

 

[imported_Tomato]

Originally posted by: ggavinmoss
Well since you aren't renting the apartment to the new people (the complex likely is), you may not even know who the renters are.

-geoff

True. I was hoping to try and find some renters independently, and if they were interested perhaps management would allow them to take over without having to remove any of the furniture, etc.

 

[DAGTA]

Most apt complexes have a clause that makes this against their rules. Renters cannot leave any furniture and cannot pressure, in any way, the new renters to purchase furniture.

 

[loup garou]

Yard sale.

Also, we sold the bar we built in our house in college to our landlord. He loved it, used it to raise the rent $75/mo.

 

[imported_Tomato]

Originally posted by: Crucial
You're having a tough time making rent yet you want to move having to pay security deposit and first months rent at the new place, and have to buy all new furniture for the new place. This doesn't make any sense.

We would move to USC graduate married student housing, which is fully furnished and 1/3 of what we are paying now.

 

[imported_Tomato]

Originally posted by: DAGTA
Most apt complexes have a clause that makes this against their rules. Renters cannot leave any furniture and cannot pressure, in any way, the new renters to purchase furniture.

Interesting, I just called my apartment complex to see if that was true and the woman I spoke with said she'd have to talk to the manager since it's never come up before (unfortunately, the manager is out of town until next week ).

 

[Crucial]

ahh that makes sense.

 

[imported_Tomato]

Originally posted by: Crucial
ahh that makes sense.

 

[kami333]

Bought and sold that way before. If you live near a university or college it's pretty standard (or so I thought)

Yeah, talk to the complex, you may be able to work something out. When I did it both me and the people moving in signed an agreement and gave it to the management company with showed what was going to be left behind so I couldn't just randomly dump stuff.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

you could put flyers up in your complex, or craigslist ads for what you are selling and people can come over and pick it up themselves. this mostly works for crap though, so if it is nice i dont know. gl

 

[shopbruin]

you might not be able to get as much as you wanted, but when people buy used furniture they're really cheap about it.

you might be better off on craigslist. but might as well try. also try just posting flyers in your building to see if anyone will take it.

 

[Xionide]

So you murdered him and now you want to sell his furniture? Cold, very cold dude....

 

[ed21x]

eh? $4000, or even $1000 is a ton of money to have someone pay for all your furniture, as most people would rather just fully furnish an apartment with $500 from iKea. Probably a yard sale or craigslist would be your best option.

 

[LordSnailz]

craigslist or post on the bruin or sc classifieds ... not sure how much you'll get for it since they're college students.