Estate Sale/Auction Services

ESTATE SALE PROFESSIONALS: Sometimes furnishings and other small items of personal property that a seller doesn't wish to move to the new home can be sold at a garage sale or other type of informal moving sale by the seller. If the amount of items to be sold is large, or if they have significant monetary value, or if the seller does not have the ability or time to conduct a sale personally, an estate sale professional might be of help. Estate sale companies can come to your home, examine the items to be sold, help you set values for specific items and to estimate the potential total value of the sale items, and can discuss the best strategy for selling the items to net the greatest amount of money from the sale. Depending on the volume of items to be sold, their value, and the availability of the home for sale to be used as the location for an estate sale, the estate sale professional might schedule, advertise and conduct a sale in your existing home. If the home can't be easily used to host the sale, or if the volume of items is not considered large enough for an individual estate sale, the professional might suggest combining your sale items with those of other clients to do one larger sale that may attract a greater number of buyers. A combined sale might be held at one of the larger properties involved (and your items would be moved there) or at a sale location owned or leased by the estate sale company. Some estate sale companies will accept all of your unwanted items and will dispose of those later that do not sell. Others will take only those they believe can be sold and will advise you of ways to dispose of the remaining items. The estate sale company will generally take payment for their labor (you should agree upon a commission or hourly rate in advance) and reimbursement for their expenses (such as moving items and advertising the sale) from the money made at the sale; the balance of the sale monies go to the seller. On occasion, and depending on the specific real estate involved, it can even make sense to auction off a home, farm or other piece of real estate, and its contents, in the same sale.

Semler Appraisals & Estate Liquidations

Phone: (972)416-3417