Breaking News ESTATE SALES - May 8, 2008 (FOX Business News, featuring Sanford Cohen) -- Is the business of estate sales being affected by foreclosed homes? For the full link, click here.

Breaking Print News Getting thrifty at garage sales - May 1st, 2009 (American Public Media, featuring Sanford Cohen) -- With more people looking to turn unwanted goods into cash, yard/garage sales are looking like good alternatives for consumers wanting to save money. Cash Peters visits a garage sale to see what's up for grabs. Radio Transcript: That's right, they are. Of course, what you're really looking for are priceless family heirlooms, preferably being sold by a dopey owner who doesn't realize he's sitting on a fortune. Stanford Cohen of Estate Sales LA is a high-end estate sale expert, but he's found many overlooked gems at garage sales. Stanford Cohen: I often see Barbie dolls from the 1960s, I see Matchbox cars from when I was a little boy. And I see that they have them priced for 50 cents. Yes I will buy that. Peters: Then what do you do with them? Cohen: I put them on Ebay. Of course you do. Smart man. Anyway, first rule of garage or estate sales: if you want the good stuff, be an early bird. Danielle: Sost: As soon as 6 a.m. rolls around, you pull the garage up and put everything out and everyone's all into it. Everybody goes through your stuff like piranhas. There was a guy out here 6 a.m., waiting for us to open and wanted to buy all of our CDs... To listen to the full show, click here.

Fixed News Top Five Places to Get More for Less - Oct. 28, 2008 (Mainstreet, featuring Sanford Cohen) -- You need more dollars these days, and you usually get less with them. Groceries, gas, airplane leg room. Less, less and less, all for more money. Ever wish you could get more (stuff) for less (lucre), without going to Wal-Mart (Stock Quote: WMT)!(Not that we don't love Wal-Mart). Here are some ways... For the full link, click here.

Past News

Secrets of estate sale treasure hunters - Apr. 25, 2008

(Money Magazine, featuring Sanford Cohen) -- Anyone who appreciates antiques or collectibles understands the bliss that comes from scoring some one-in-a-million piece at one-hundredth of its price -and then telling everybody about your amazing catch. Perhaps the best place to discover that perfect find, and a best-kept secret of antiques dealers, is the estate sale.

You've never been? Estate sales happen when a homeowner dies, empty-nesters downsize or a couple moves on after divorce. The folks who run these sales, usually liquidation firms, go through the contents of the house, price everything at a discount and then host a two-day sale with the goal of emptying the contents fast...

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Bluth family gets bought out - May. 24, 2006

(Quick, featuring Sanford Cohen) -- Props and set decorations from Arrested Development were sold over the weekend at the Bluth Family Estate Sale.

Even Buster's hand (rubber, of course) was for sale. It had been bitten off by a loose seal (of course).

Sanford Edward Cohen, proprietor of Estate Sales Los Angeles, said he mostly conducts sales for "people who are downsizing" after a divorce or financial problems.

About 25 percent of his estate sales are Hollywood-related, and in the past he has sold goods from the shows Judging Amy, The X-Files and Buffy the Vampire Slayer...

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GIVE PEACE A CHANCE - Mar. 17, 2005

(LA Weekly, featuring Sanford Cohen) -- It’s a big gray cinder-block room, full of crap. Crap on tables, hanging crap, crap in bins. But since it’s crap that belonged to paparazzi targets, it must be important, so there are 20 or so citizens rummaging through it. I begin sharing the inventory with my loyal DS330 digital voice recorder. Costume jewelry, $150; more costume jewelry, $200, $100; heart-shaped sunglasses, can’t see the price tag; horizontal file cabinet, $350; clear plastic storage bins, $1 each. Sanford E. Cohen of Estate Sales L.A., author of the event’s press release, apprehends me pleasantly and offers to talk into my recording device.

Cohen runs down the good shit, most of which sold the day before: “Tiffany & Co. yo-yos that were Tim and Lisa’s personal yo-yos. Clothing. From top designers. Prada, Gucci, Louis Vuitton. Murano glass. Fortuny lamps. The Fortuny lamps are hand-painted silk lamps from Italy. These two hot tubs are $11,000 a piece. A lot of modern furniture . . . Is this the kind of information you want?”...

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