Portland is uniquely suited to business, with a diversified economy to match. With a major port and heavy transportation infrastructure, Portland houses a wide range of industries. It’s famous as the Silicon Forest, of course, but it also boasts truck building, athletic shoes, clothing, brewing, and steel as other key industries.
This means that Portland is seeing growth at an unprecedented rate, and that also means that there’s plenty of office furniture floating around as companies outgrow their offices, close, or have their needs change. Whether you’re consolidating space or shutting down operations entirely, working with an office decommissioning company can make it easier to get rid of the old furniture and bring in the new without the process eating up weeks of your time.
Some try to give it away, but getting rid of all your furniture can be tricky. Charities may not have the funding or capability to accept all of your office furniture, especially if it happens to be a large lot of items. While the tax credit can be useful for your company, it may not be worth the time you’ll have to sacrifice in order to get it, as you call various companies and attempt to find somebody who can take what you have. Some businesses look into office furniture resale as a middle ground, hoping to recover a bit of value rather than donating outright, but that comes with its own logistics to manage.
Another alternative is giving it away to the general public, but this has its own pitfalls. Office furniture tends to be specialized equipment that won’t fit well into many homes, or that your average man on the street just won’t have a use for. Again, you may find yourself able to get rid of some of your furniture, but it’s unlikely that all of it will find a taker, even at the price of free.
Selling it to a local business as a lot is a possibility, but remember that you’ll need to advertise for at least a week in the Oregonian or the Portland Tribune, and classified ads can be costly with little guarantee of success. Working directly with commercial furniture liquidators skips that step entirely, since they’re already set up to buy a full office as a lot rather than piecemeal. You might be able to sell some of it online, but that will require packing and shipping, which can be a tedious and time-consuming process.
In the end, much of the old office furniture is either trucked to the new office and tossed into the back of the storage space, a poor substitute for proper office relocation services, or thrown into a dumpster, which means you’ll have to pay for it to be disposed of. If entire offices of furniture are thrown away, the total cost can run into the thousands for the business getting rid of it, another reason many companies bring in an office clearance company before it ever reaches that point.
But there is a way to get rid of your old office furniture fast and keep it from eating up space, time, and cash: Calling Nationwide Office Liquidators. At Nationwide Office Liquidators, we quickly and efficiently evaluate, pack, ship, and pay for lots of used office furniture, whether it’s a handful of desks in a small incubator or a massive cubicle farm. So don’t let your office furniture mold in storage: Call Nationwide Office Liquidators today.