Great Expectations Estate Sales & Appraisals will handle all aspects of the estate sale, including organization, set-up, obtaining permits, pricing, merchandising, advertising, all bookkeeping, security and hosting during the actual sale. We have experience with antiques, collectibles and household furnishings and pride ourselves on being a full service liquidation company.

There is a lot involved in conducting and hosting a successful and profitable estate sale, Great Expectations will handle all of the details professionally and efficiently! We offer a Free Estate
Sale Analysis with a two or four Day Conducted Estate Sale Guaranteed.

Professional, Reliable & Honest Services

Organized, detailed & efficient

Thorough and Comprehensive marketing and advertising efforts go into each of our sales including: Newspaper advertising, website advertising, professionally printed directional signs, E-mail announcements, press releases, fliers, etc.

We have a large following of existing customers, our excellent reputation earns more money for you! We distribute numbers to customers prior to each of our sales and limit the amount of customers in the home at any given time.

We provide display tables, lockable cases for valuables, additional lighting and all other needed items in order to display and merchandise your items. We also take great care in protecting your home during the sale.

Our Goal is to Ease your Burden!

We present you with a check and a full accounting of the items sold within 7-10 business days from the end of sale.

· We can coordinate charitable pickups or professional haulers for any remaining items after the sale. Perfect for those who want a home empty and ready for a closing!

· We conduct sales for out of state clients frequently- we can work with your attorney or executor of the Estate.

STEPS

We interview the prospective client and tour the household that needs to be downsized. At this meeting, we evaluate the estate to see if it is doable for an estate sale or other form of sale. If so, we give a proposal for the percentage of sales, costs of advertising and labor. Negotiations. Dates are set. Estimates given for the sale totals.
When both parties agree, we get keys and alarm codes.
Our crew then comes in to clean, organize and display homes.
Website advertising, advertising in newspapers done, emails sent three days to a week in advance.
Photographs are taken and put on the Great Expectations Estate Sales website.
The estate sale days go from 2 to 4 days usually Friday, Saturday and Sundays.
In the following days, we do donation lists, arrange for charity pick-ups and leave the house empty and clean.
Checks and sale reconciliation’s come within 7-10 days of sales.