Tuesday, August 28, 2012
A PLEASING WEEKEND IN SUNSET PARK
Lucky Rabbit Estate Sales
By: Paul J.Dunn
Wow! is all I can say about the people of this wonderful little neighborhood in Brooklyn. They made the sale very successful and profitable for the homeowner.
It was a pleasure to work with this nice family. We truly enjoyed getting to know them.
It amazed me how some cultures know very little about estate and tag sales. We were very pleased to introduce it to them. Word of mouth spread quickly throughout the community; we had 100’s of new inquisitive shoppers. Many of them returned several times on both days to shop with us. In addition we prepared a targeted ad campaign which was translated to traditional Chinese. Thanks to our innovative marketing techniques we now have dozens of new curious followers and subscribers to our website: http://www.luckyrabbitestatesales.com/
In addition to our wonderful hardworking staff ( Lynn, Stephanie and Lorrie) we had some very nice visitors at this sale. Bryan (www.lisaler.com) stopped by to raise the flag and make new friends. Of course he brought his sidekick Bella, she’s always a big hit and oh so adorable. I love the way she snarls at me.
We had two very nice graduate students from Columbia University doing a project related to estate sales. They’re doing a photo slide show with sound bites from the sale. I’m sure I’m over simplifying it but we enjoyed having them at the sale. I wish them the best of luck with the project! I know it will be great and I for one cannot wait to see it. We will post it on our website when it’s completed.
We also discovered an awesome butterfly tree right next door. Dozens of beautiful butterflies were feeding off the nectar of this tree. Bryan Reif got some great pictures of the tree. You can see them on our facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/luckyrabbit.sales/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/luckyrabbit.sales/
All in all it was a great weekend in Beautiful Sunset Park. We hope to do more sales there in the future.
Check out our upcoming sale in Bensonhurst.
Friday, August 24, 2012
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Monday, August 20, 2012
Lucky Rabbit Estate Sales: New York’s Ever Changing Cultural Landscape
Lucky Rabbit Estate Sales: New York’s Ever Changing Cultural Landscape: New York’s Ever Changing Cultural Landscape We started to up the Sunset Park Estate Sale for this coming weekend, 8/25 & 8/26. We clea...
New York’s Ever Changing Cultural Landscape
New York’s Ever Changing
Cultural Landscape
We started to up the Sunset Park Estate Sale
for this coming weekend, 8/25 & 8/26. We cleaned, inventoried and displayed
all items in our usual professional manner.
The nice gentleman who owned this 6 bedroom 2
family home decided it was time for a change and headed south. He left
everything behind for estate liquidation. If you’ve looked at the pictures and videos
you’ve seen the amazing contents of this well kept Norwegian home. Not to mention what we’ve pulled out of the
basement and closets. We leave no stone unturned when setting up all of our
estate and tag sales.
I was really surprised to see the landscape
of the neighborhood had changed dramatically in the past few years. That’s the wonderful
thing about this city we live in; our population is amazingly diverse yet we
all live together in relative harmony. You can experience dozens of different cultures
in one day just by walking neighborhood to neighborhood.
I did a little research and found some interesting
things about this wonderful unique neighborhood past and present.
Sunset Park
grew rapidly, largely as a result of Irish, Polish, Finnish and Norwegian immigrant families
moving to the area in the 19th century. In the early 1980s,
Sunset Park's population was made up of Norwegian Americans, who began leaving the neighborhood in the 1970s and early 1980s.
The 2nd Wave
Its
rebirth came in the form of "Brooklyn's Little Latin America"
With a wave of immigration from Puerto Rico and other Latin American countries,
by 1990, Hispanics comprised
50% of Sunset Park's population. They were successful in rehabilitating
property values and developing a thriving community.
The Current Wave
Brooklyn’s Chinatown/Emerging Fuzhou Town
Since the 1980s, Brooklyn Chinatown, located along 8th Avenue from 42nd to 68th Street, has
attracted many Chinese
immigrants. Eighth Avenue is lined with Chinese
businesses, including grocery stores, restaurants, Buddhist temples, video stores, bakeries, and community
organizations, and even Hong Kong Supermarket.
Sunday, August 5, 2012
First Yelp Reviews! 5 Starts! Lucky Rabbit Estate Sales
First Yelp Reviews!
Am I writing the first review? I'm honored! These guys seriously saved my life. I don't know what I would have done without them. Anyone in the NYC area considering an estate sale - use Lucky Rabbit!
While I was cleaning out my parents' apartment, I kept putting off figuring out the whole estate sale portion of it. The whole idea made me uncomfortable, and I was worried about the logistics. I fe
el so lucky that I ended up calling Paul and Tom at Lucky Rabbit...
They can identify seemingly any item, and are normal, cool dudes who run the sale like true professionals. They advertised well and attracted so many people to the sale. We made so much more money than I would have ever imagined, and things I would have thrown out ended up selling. In fact I guarantee before I talked to them I probably threw out at least $1000 worth of stuff that I thought was junk!
Their clean out services are better - and cheaper - than other services I looked into. And those are services that exclusively do clean out.
This is the first Yelp review I've ever written - that is how much I recommend Lucky Rabbit!!! They will make a bad situation much more bearable.
Ed D.
VALLEY VILLAGE, CA
They can identify seemingly any item, and are normal, cool dudes who run the sale like true professionals. They advertised well and attracted so many people to the sale. We made so much more money than I would have ever imagined, and things I would have thrown out ended up selling. In fact I guarantee before I talked to them I probably threw out at least $1000 worth of stuff that I thought was junk!
Their clean out services are better - and cheaper - than other services I looked into. And those are services that exclusively do clean out.
This is the first Yelp review I've ever written - that is how much I recommend Lucky Rabbit!!! They will make a bad situation much more bearable.
Ed D.
VALLEY VILLAGE, CA
Paul and Tom are great! They are very professional and also very kind and sensitive to the fact that estate sales can be a difficult time for those who have lost loved ones. They really know their stuff and do a great job researching everything so that you don't get ripped off. And they can also arrange to donate or haul out any items that do not sell that you do not want. They work on commission so you don't pay anything up front - they just take a % of the total sales. Overall, these guys are great and made the whole process incredibly easy!
Meghan M.
Los Angeles, CA
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