You know the expression “I’ve got a guy for that”? Seems like today, there’s a service for every tiny niche you can imagine. Just google Head Lice Treament – or Domestic Bird Psychiatry…The list goes on and on.
I never thought of myself as a niche decorator/estate dispersal professional until recently, when I got a call that a woman was interested in purchasing two of my clients’ graves. Long story short: Our clients, two sisters who live in New York, called us to disperse their mother’s estate. Along with the estate came six graves — never been used, of course — in a cemetery on the west side of Chicago that was fully sold out.
Believe it or not, there’s a publication called “The Cemetery Exchange,” where you can buy a listing for a grave you’re selling. Like Craigslist for graves. This is where buyers turn when they want to secure their final resting place…
And this is where the caller found my clients’ ad selling their graves, which I had placed five years ago without much hope that I’d ever hear anything again. Once we agreed on the price, I contacted the cemetery director who issued a voucher that my clients signed to finalize the sale.
It was that simple. The graves were transferred, and the woman caller successfully secured the final resting place for herself and her sister, who was in hospice.
Now that I’ve been through the process once, I’m sure it will get easier next time – although the likelihood of that opportunity arising again seems low!
