kaxt
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So I need some advice/suggestions. Long story short, my good friend had an awful experience with a tenant renting an apartment from her. He's in jail now, leaving her with a completely trashed apartment. Here's where Reef Central comes in- there is a ton of aquarium equipment and large fish tanks in the apartment that she needs to get out so she can gut the apartment and get it ready to rent again.
There is a 240 gallon reef ready tank that is empty. A 90 gallon that is set up with live rock, and a fully equipped sump, and looks like it might have been running when the tenant got arrested many months ago. There is an empty 75 gallon, a brand new 40 breeder with stickers still on it, and what I believe is a 29 gallon that is also set up and full of water. There is a big Bubble Magnus skimmer, an AquaC skimmer, a bunch of Eheim pumps, heaters, canister filters, media reactors, UV filters, and T5 light fixtures. I'm guessing there is some other random equipment that I missed also. I know that most of the tanks hold water, because they are full of funk water, but I haven't tested any of the equipment.
My friend doesn't have any aquarium knowledge and asked me to come check it out and let her know what she should sell and what she should just trash. In my opinion all of it needs to be cleaned, but none of it is garbage. She is loosing money on rent and needs to get this stuff out. I would love to take it off her hands, but I just upgraded tanks a few months ago and don't have any use for the majority of what she has at this moment. I also don't have room to store it.
How would you go about selling these tanks and equipment? I'm tempted to just put a low ball price on everything and say 'must take all' but I'm guessing there aren't many people who are willing to come pick up five tanks, especially because the majority of them are large. I also had the idea to advertise an auction and see if I could get a bunch of people to show up and take the best offer on each piece, but that seems like a ton of work, with a good chance of failure. My friend lives an hour from the apartment and I live 40 minutes from it, so I'm not looking to just selling everything individually and have to show up every time someone is interested in purchasing something- especially since it's not that unusual to get blown off by people from craigslist.
What do you think is the best way to sell all this quickly, without just giving it away? I'm hoping selling this equipment helps her mitigate some of the cost of getting the apartment back in good shape. Thanks in advance, and sorry for the long post.
There is a 240 gallon reef ready tank that is empty. A 90 gallon that is set up with live rock, and a fully equipped sump, and looks like it might have been running when the tenant got arrested many months ago. There is an empty 75 gallon, a brand new 40 breeder with stickers still on it, and what I believe is a 29 gallon that is also set up and full of water. There is a big Bubble Magnus skimmer, an AquaC skimmer, a bunch of Eheim pumps, heaters, canister filters, media reactors, UV filters, and T5 light fixtures. I'm guessing there is some other random equipment that I missed also. I know that most of the tanks hold water, because they are full of funk water, but I haven't tested any of the equipment.
My friend doesn't have any aquarium knowledge and asked me to come check it out and let her know what she should sell and what she should just trash. In my opinion all of it needs to be cleaned, but none of it is garbage. She is loosing money on rent and needs to get this stuff out. I would love to take it off her hands, but I just upgraded tanks a few months ago and don't have any use for the majority of what she has at this moment. I also don't have room to store it.
How would you go about selling these tanks and equipment? I'm tempted to just put a low ball price on everything and say 'must take all' but I'm guessing there aren't many people who are willing to come pick up five tanks, especially because the majority of them are large. I also had the idea to advertise an auction and see if I could get a bunch of people to show up and take the best offer on each piece, but that seems like a ton of work, with a good chance of failure. My friend lives an hour from the apartment and I live 40 minutes from it, so I'm not looking to just selling everything individually and have to show up every time someone is interested in purchasing something- especially since it's not that unusual to get blown off by people from craigslist.
What do you think is the best way to sell all this quickly, without just giving it away? I'm hoping selling this equipment helps her mitigate some of the cost of getting the apartment back in good shape. Thanks in advance, and sorry for the long post.
