Liquidation Services
TOTAL ESTATE SOLUTIONS offers extensive liquidation services to complement our appraisal practice. Offering a full-service approach for the sale and liquidation of personal property and estate collection. Focusing on efficiency and client satisfaction ensuring that every process is managed with care and attention to detail.
Liquidation Services Offered
Estate Sale (On-site and Hybrid)
Best suited for the sale of your items to the locals with local interest. Locals love Estate Sales. When presented and marketed right, great results can be garnered for antiques, fine art, collectables, contemporary furnishings, everyday items, garage items, tools, potted plants, outdoor furnishings, decorator accessories, decorative framed art, tractor and farm equipment.Â
The Hybrid version adds an on-line element. Hybrid is for items that have a broader or nationwide interest.
Whether an online timed-auction or retail sales site is appropriate; Total Estate Solutions facilitates all or most items to be sold in their perspective markets.
Disposition by Auction
Our auction brokerage service finds the highest and best auction venue (Christies, Phillips, Moran’s, Case) for your high value items and negotiate the best terms of sale for maximized return. Total Estate Solutions is not limited to the local market to assist in the sale of high value personal property. Our goal is to find the highest and best market for your items and collection. The navigation process is usually very intimidating for individuals, collectors, trustees, and other service professionals that do not have experience in the auction world. We make it simple and successful.
Total Estate Solutions uses regional, national and global auction houses to sell your high value item/s. Â The process involves:Â
- Evaluating the items/collections that are best suited for auction (The middle and lower tier suited for Estate Sale)
- Determining highest and best market for the items/collection.
- Determine the auction house best suited for the items/collection. (can be several auction houses)
- Submit information to the auction house/s for auction estimates and terms of sale.
- Negotiate sale terms for best return. (With years of experience in the auction world we have negotiated commissions that are favored by seasoned auction industry veterans)
- Arrange for the transport of the items/collection to the agreed to auction house/s.
- Arrange for proper payment to you the client upon the sale of the items/collection.
Disposition by Private Treaty (Private Sale)
Sometimes the best fit is the collector, organization, dealer, or broker to sell at a fixed price (typically when needed to make a timeline possible). We can facilitate a quick and discrete private sale in several different categories. All private sales are mutually agreed to and executed with total confidentiality at a pace that suits the clients and the item/s. Contact us to learn more about buying and selling opportunities.
Estate Buyout
Don’t want the Hassel and complications of auctions, estate sales, and want a to walk into a home with bare walls and a broom finish floor. Consider a full estate buy-out or partial buy-out option, this facilitates selling all or a portion of the personal property content or collection.
With a full estate buy-out Total Estate Solutions will assume responsibility for the contents of the home, remove all the items, also includes the clean out to leave the home to a broom finish. During the cleanout all personal effects will be gathered and returned to a responsible party if agreed to.
 A full or partial buy out is considered:
- If time is of the essence and an estate sale or auction cannot take place in certain timeframe.
- An extension to is not possible for the trust, estate or other circumstance.
- Prefer to avoid the complications of an Estate Sale or Auction (contents and collections only).
- Estate is in need of financial liquidity.
- The real property needs to be sold in a specified timeframe where the personal possession cannot be delt within a certain timeframe
Contact Total Estate Solutions and see if a buyout is right for you.
Depersonalization Service
Helps with sensitive information. We can help erase personal and sensitive information from a home including papers, items, pictures, clothing, grooming products, and other items from a home.
Charitable Donation
Sometimes the best choice it to give the items to a local, reginal, or national charity. Weather it is an economic decisions and/or moral decisions we can help facilitate. Total Estate Solutions can help with:
- Necessary appraisal for the item/s
- Present charitable organizations suited for the item/s needing donation.
- Coordinate the donation of the items.
- Preparing donation receipts/appraisal to present to attorney and/or accountant.
Cleaning and Clean-out Service
When a clean-out is needed; broom finish every time. Total Estate Solutions helps facilitate cleanout services with:
- Assessment for a clean out.
- Examine items to make sure valuables are not being disposed of. Many times, a clean out, hoarding, bio-hazard service is called in and valuables are thrown away unknowingly. Total estate solutions examine, assess, and identify valuables from being tossed away. As we say at Total Estate Solutions only throw away ‘egg shells and coffee ground’ then leave the rest for the professionals. We have found diamonds in the rough.
- Personal effects need special handling to maintain personal, family, and business privacy. From paperwork, personalize items, photos, and other items. Unsored, unexamined, and negligently thrown away personal effect can lead to potential identity theft. Total Estate Solutions takes sorting and disposal seriously.
- Household and hazardous waste. Common items such as refrigerators, washers, dryers, microwave to hazardous waste including engine oil, chemicals, automotive batteries, need special handling. We arrange with the proper crew for every form of waste that needs to be cleaned out of the home.
- Logistics of the clean out. (truck & dumpster location)
- Arrange for cleanup/out crew, hoarding crew, household hazardous waste crew or a specialized cleanup/out.
- Supervise the clean-up date.
Typical small clean outs services have a quick turnaround and are usually next day. Larger complex clean-out services may take up to a week.
Moving and Downsizing
Total estate solutions help clients achieve their desired moving and/or downsizing outcomes. We help by providing unbiased clarity in evaluation, decision-making and actions surrounding your collections, objects, spaces, and function of items within your spaces.Â
Transport/Padded Van Service
Need an item moved or shipped. Contact us with your moving and storage needs. We work with a variety of packers, movers, forwarders, and knowledgeable local packaging stores. Whether local or long distance, with high value items, furnishings, & collections it is not worth the risk of inexperienced packaging, shipping, or transport.
De-Cluttering
Total estate solutions help clients achieve their desired de-cluttering outcomes. We help by providing unbiased clarity in evaluation, decision-making and actions surrounding your collections, objects, spaces, and function of items within your spaces.Â
Storage
When storing pieces presents itself. Total Estate Solutions assesses your needs and matches an appropriate storage location. Short-term or long-term storage; climate-control and security always advised. Logistics also taken into account.
Other Services
- Hoarding – When a hoarding situation presents itself it can be overwhelming and complex. An extreme examination of the hoarding situation is needed to consider what is valuable, salable, personal, or just needs to be disposed of. Sometimes a hoarding situation can be a bio-hazard. Total estate solutions we tailor the needs of the hoarding situation. Typically, we identify items that have donation value, monetary value and resale potential. Clean-out what is just trash. As we say at Total Estate Solutions only throw away ‘egg shells and coffee ground’ then leave the rest for the professionals. We have found diamonds in the rough.
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