I was flooded out in Hurricane Katrina, and the stuff that survived in my upstairs was recovered and put into storage. I also have been buying some replacement items since then, also putting things in storage. Everything else is in my car. I am still homeless more or less living out of my car - well, I keep everything I need to live with in my car, wherever I may be living.
The only thing of real salable value is a new piano that is exempted in my state (Louisiana), which was bought over 2 years ago, and is still sitting in the dealer's warehouse (but I did officially finish pay it off.) I also have a number of pinball machines (I am a collector, and I lost 9 of them downstairs), and an old pool table that survived. I have a few neon signs that survived, and that I have bought a year or two ago - maybe they would be worth a few hundred bucks. I also have some old powered speaker that might be worth a few hundred bucks. Maybe I could get $50 for my old pair of skis. I have an extra set of rims for my car (cheap rims that I bought for $300 for all four wheels to put on winter tires.) Everything else is more or less memento junk, clothes, etc. I figure that the garage sale value of them would be pretty low (to say nothing of the expense of getting them from storage to set up in such a sale), and I would not mind taking a small amount of my post bankruptcy exemption to keep them.
I understand that the trustee would make an inspection of my items. I'd like to see him go through the tight storage in 3 different locations hundreds of miles away, but I guess he could do it. How would that work in my situation?
The only thing of real salable value is a new piano that is exempted in my state (Louisiana), which was bought over 2 years ago, and is still sitting in the dealer's warehouse (but I did officially finish pay it off.) I also have a number of pinball machines (I am a collector, and I lost 9 of them downstairs), and an old pool table that survived. I have a few neon signs that survived, and that I have bought a year or two ago - maybe they would be worth a few hundred bucks. I also have some old powered speaker that might be worth a few hundred bucks. Maybe I could get $50 for my old pair of skis. I have an extra set of rims for my car (cheap rims that I bought for $300 for all four wheels to put on winter tires.) Everything else is more or less memento junk, clothes, etc. I figure that the garage sale value of them would be pretty low (to say nothing of the expense of getting them from storage to set up in such a sale), and I would not mind taking a small amount of my post bankruptcy exemption to keep them.
I understand that the trustee would make an inspection of my items. I'd like to see him go through the tight storage in 3 different locations hundreds of miles away, but I guess he could do it. How would that work in my situation?
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