Thank you for your kind words and thoughts. These are all good suggestions.
You are correct, mom has a ton of sewing and quilting items. A room full. My sister and I are each taking one of my mom's 2 smaller machines and whatever other sewing items we are attached too but our living situations nor our time available to devote to learning quilting sadly do not allow for taking on the Q24.
We did contact the local dealer to ask if they took on "consignment" or sold used machines and they said for a machine like that they would only take it on if they already had a buyer who wanted it. But we didn't speak to the woman my mom worked with most so we plan to call back to speak to her, my mom really liked her so I think she will take the time to offer better options.
Dad does have the receipts and paperwork for it, he isn't staying at the house at the moment but has said he will get us the purchase price when he next goes. We do know it was over $20k so we're more trying to get an idea of depreciation and desirability with time and ease being a big focus.
Thank you again.