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Advice for Buying Used Hotel Furniture

Used hotel furniture comes in two basic categories. The chain hotel items and the unique items that come from the more unusual hotels, hotels that seem to be a dying breed but this is a fact that you can use in your favor. Nowadays most hotels are part of a chain and obviously when they have used furniture for sale you can be sure you are getting quality goods and they are also an opportunity for mass purchase and resale. You buy a large quantity of all the similar looking items and then sell them off bit by bit, item by item in a large, geographically spread out area. That way you can get a reasonable mark up on each item of maybe 25 to 33.3%, the buyer gets a good deal and you make a decent profit. Because you spread out the areas where you sold each item, each customer does not have to worry about his neighbor having exactly the same table or chair.
Then there are the unique items that come from old hotels that closed up or were taken over by a chain and renovated, their unique furniture sold off to the highest bidder. These items are definitely worth looking for and the older the items and the hotels from whence they come, the better.
There is definitely a great example in the Nickerbocker hotel in Los Angeles. This hotel is now a home for seniors but is also the site of some of the most dramatic incidents in the city’s history. Rudolf Valentino was a regular at the hotel’s bar till his death in 1926 and apparently afterward as well. That is right the hotel is a haunting hotspot and not just ordinary ghosts either. Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe were also providers of custom at the hotel bar and if you believe some people, Marilyn still likes to pop in occasionally. The place has had so many haunting stories associated with it for so long that on the Halloween of 1936, the widow of Houdini held her tenth séance on its roof for contacting her late husband. Now how would you have liked to get your hands on some of the items that hotel was selling.
It is always good if you are selling, buying, or investing in antique or used hotel furniture to always be clued up on the history of the establishment you are looking into doing business with. Haunted, old, and historic hotels are great for business when buying and selling its used furniture and when you know where to look you are sure to get the gems of the collection. All you need to do is the research.

Used hotel furniture comes in two basic categories. The chain hotel items and the unique items that come from the more unusual hotels, hotels that seem to be a dying breed but this is a fact that you can use in your favor. Nowadays most hotels are part of a chain and obviously when they have used furniture for sale you can be sure you are getting quality goods and they are also an opportunity for mass purchase and resale. You buy a large quantity of all the similar looking items and then sell them off bit by bit, item by item in a large, geographically spread out area. That way you can get a reasonable mark up on each item of maybe 25 to 33.3%, the buyer gets a good deal and you make a decent profit. Because you spread out the areas where you sold each item, each customer does not have to worry about his neighbor having exactly the same table or chair.

Then there are the unique items that come from old hotels that closed up or were taken over by a chain and renovated, their unique furniture sold off to the highest bidder. These items are definitely worth looking for and the older the items and the hotels from whence they come, the better.

There is definitely a great example in the Nickerbocker hotel in Los Angeles. This hotel is now a home for seniors but is also the site of some of the most dramatic incidents in the city’s history. Rudolf Valentino was a regular at the hotel’s bar till his death in 1926 and apparently afterward as well. That is right the hotel is a haunting hotspot and not just ordinary ghosts either. Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe were also providers of custom at the hotel bar and if you believe some people, Marilyn still likes to pop in occasionally. The place has had so many haunting stories associated with it for so long that on the Halloween of 1936, the widow of Houdini held her tenth séance on its roof for contacting her late husband. Now how would you have liked to get your hands on some of the items that hotel was selling.

It is always good if you are selling, buying, or investing in antique or used hotel furniture to always be clued up on the history of the establishment you are looking into doing business with. Haunted, old, and historic hotels are great for business when buying and selling its used furniture and when you know where to look you are sure to get the gems of the collection. All you need to do is the research.