Before we touch anything, we ask you to take out whatever you want to keep - and to check pockets, books, drawers and the backs of frames for cash, documents and photographs. Then we walk the house room by room and talk honestly about what will sell. Families usually expect the formal china and the brown furniture to be valuable and the tools and costume jewelry to be worthless - it is very often the reverse, and we would rather tell you that plainly now than after the sale. Anything that looks like it needs a specialist - fine art, firearms, coins - gets flagged for its own appraisal before we price it.
We research and price every item, stage the house so it can be shopped like a store, and advertise to our buyer list. The sale itself runs two or three days with numbered entry to control crowding, staffed the whole time, with prices stepping down as the weekend goes on and cash handled by our team throughout.
Whatever does not sell has a plan before the sale even starts: a post-sale buyout offer on the remainder, donation with receipts for your taxes, or consignment of a few standout pieces. Either way, we finish with a full cleanout so the house is broom-clean and ready to list, and we work around your realtor's timeline the whole way through.
Our fee is 35 percent commission on the total sale, with no minimum - it covers research, pricing, staging, advertising, staffing and the final cleanout. You receive a settlement statement itemizing what sold and for how much, along with payment, within ten business days of the sale closing.
