I repurpose everything I can. Or I sell 'as-is' and advertise that it can be used for Pinterest projects. When I advertise like that I sell quick. And I've made some contacts who I can call and they'll take all the junk furniture I can find. Most popular stuff is dresser drawers from a broken dresser, old windows in wood frames, wooden boxes and trunks in any condition or size, old wood, and old suitcases. My husband thinks it's amazing that people pay us for this stuff that he would just haul off to the dump.
One of my favorite repurposing tricks is taking chairs ( you know the ones, the ugly wood chairs that every middle class family had in the 80s and 90s). You usually find one in every unit. Maybe you get lucky with a pair. But it's never a whole set. I take each chair and spray paint with some bold color. Like red, pink, yellow, blue etc... I can then sell them for $25 each on the Facebook garage sale site and they are sold within hours.