WestConn to host reading by antiques & collectibles expert Rinker
"Sell, Keep or Toss?" offers downsizing & settlement ideas for a full house
DANBURY, CONN. — Years of experience doing walk-through home appraisals brought nationally known antiques and collectibles expert Harry Rinker to understand the dilemma individuals face when trying to downsize a home or settle an estate.
Rinker will share his expertise and recommend ideas to cope with a full house in a reading from his new book, “Sell, Keep or Toss? How to Downsize a Home, Settle an Estate, and Appraise Personal Property,” at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 4, at Western Connecticut State University. The public is invited to attend the free reading on the first floor of Warner Hall on the university’s Midtown campus, 181 White St. in Danbury. At the conclusion of the program, the author will sign copies of the book, which will be available for purchase at the event.
The book offers practical advice to simplify the complicated personal, family and financial decisions in clearing out a house, including getting the right experts to help, determining the value of possessions and deciding the best way to dispose of unwanted items. Parents looking to downsize now that the children have moved out, grown children faced with moving a parent into a retirement or nursing community, and family members and executors coping with a house filled with items that must be moved quickly all will find ideas to make their tasks easier.
Rinker owns Rinker Enterprises Inc., a firm specializing in providing appraisal, consulting, editorial, educational, media, personal appearance, research and writing services in the antiques and collectibles field. Rinker Enterprises maintains its own research staff and draws regularly on the expertise of advisers throughout the United States and Canada.
Rinker is the author of more than 20 titles on antiques and collectibles, including “How To Think Like a Collector,” published in 2005. His syndicated column, “Rinker on Collectibles,” appears weekly in newspapers nationwide, and he appears frequently on television shows including “Oprah,” “Today” and “Good Morning America.” He has been quoted in national publications including Business Week, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, Newsday, U.S. News & World Report, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post.
Rinker offers numerous guest lectures and verbal appraisal clinics, appearing at antiques shows, trade shows and exhibitions, home and garden shows, educational institutions, and museum and historical sites. He will hold a verbal appraisal session at WestConn on Tuesday, April 8, and will lead a group tour of the Christmas markets of Germany and Austria from Nov. 28 to Dec. 5, 2008.
Rinker hosts the nationally syndicated antiques and collectibles call-in radio show “Whatcha Got?” The show streams live on the Internet from 8 to 10 a.m. Sundays at www.goldenbroadcasters.com, and airs weekends in Connecticut on WLIS-AM 1420 in Old Saybrook and WMRD-AM 1150 in Middletown.
For more information, call the Office of University Relations at (203) 837-8486. Additional information about Rinker and Rinker Enterprises is available on the Internet at www.harryrinker.com.
