/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1576749
Yeah, cleared out and sold up my dad's garage last year when he moved into a retirement village. Place was so full of stuff it had no functional working space any more. Had to sell a bunch of old couches and other furniture before there was room to get in and see the more valuable stuff like tools.

I would have snagged a lot of the tools, but I live far away and it wasn't feasible to move it all, so it ended up getting sold. Pennies on the dollar for a lot of stuff, but the more substantial stuff (pillar drill, router table etc) fetched a fair amount.

For the smaller stuff, I loaded up the car and found a nearby agricultural auction house that holds 'car boot' sales each weekend. That got rid of a fair amount of stuff but the folks that come to those only go for the very low price stuff so you have to focus on volume (e.g. tools in a rummage box for $1 per item.

In your case unless you're able to sort it out before he passes, you'll need to take on the duties of becoming executor of his estate, or you'll have to get permission from the executor to liquidate what's in the garage like this. It is a chunk of work but it's slow-burn stuff, so you can work through it in a steady manner. Worst case, if the house needs sold and the garage is a big obstable, you can chuck it all in a van and move it to a storage facility, then sort it there. Costs will just come out of the estate.