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Have you ever wandered through a model home and admired the furniture?  Have you seen a piece that would fit perfectly in your house and you wish you could get it?  Well you can and for significantly less than buying from a retail furniture store.  You can buy model home furniture if you know what you’re doing.

All of the big developers like Pulte, Meritage and Beazer buy attractive furniture for their models to help sell the unit.  When the development is completely sold out, they typically auction off the furniture from the model homes.  What you need to do is this.

Talk to the sales manager of the development and get an idea when the close out will be and what auction service they will be using.  Typically these auction services will only invite the homeowners in the development and members to the auction.

Once you have the auction service name you can look it up on the web and see what it costs to be a member.  Usually this is around $30 a year and it gives you the right to be at the auction, provides mailings with times and dates of auctions and displays photos of things to be sold.  Once you have this you’re good to go.

The auction is normally held in the largest room in the house.  A four model development can easily have 200 items up on the block.  These auctions are cash only and normally you have two hours to remove the item from the site.  There are no minimum starting bids.  The people at the auction determine just what an item is going to go for.  Read more...