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Andrew Adelson: Knowing the difference.

Andrew Adelson
has to be
encyclopedic
when he sells the
contents of your
home.

10/31
1997

142

ALAN ABRAMS
Special to The Jewish News

ost businesses can only
dream about regularly
having as many as 200
customers lined up and
patiently waiting for a chance to
spend their money hours before the
doors open.
But Andrew Adelson of West
Bloomfield's Everything Goes Estate
Liquidations, Inc., expects to be greet-
ed with that sight as often as three
times a week.
And Adelson is not giving away
anything for free to lure those shop-

pers, although he's running some of
the best sales in town.
Strip away the glitz and glamour,
and Adelson is essentially in the recy-
cling business. But instead of bottles
and cans, he recycles home furnish-
ings.
All of the sales conducted by
Everything Goes are tag sales, because
every item is clearly priced.
"Only 10 percent of rrilr business is
estate sales," after someone has died,
said Adelson, age 43. "Moving sales
are the biggest part of my business,
accounting for probably 60 percent.
That would include upward mobility,
people building a new house and

,

wanting to get rid of the stuff in their
old house because it won't work with
their new house.
"Then there are people who are
retiring down in Florida or Las Vegas.
People have a place in Las Vegas that's
been furnished for 10 years, and
decide enough is enough with
Michigan. They going to retire, and
they don't want anything. Because
when you retire to a different climate,
your lifestyle changes, things are dif-
ferent, the furniture and accessories
you use are different. Sometimes even s
the cars and jewelry.
"So they call me and resell every-
thing. Retirement sales probably