2muchstuff4me

To call the owner Brian, the owner, a weasel would be an insult to the weasel population across the world. Do not be fooled by his initial boisterous personality he may display at your first meeting. If your objective is to simply empty a house, liquidate the contents with a wildly erratic pricing system (more on that), and have a man reign over the sale like a crass, belligerent carnival barker of the 1930's, then Brian is your man. He is cheap and sleazy and gets the job done in the same way. For those of you who want to execute this type of sale with integrity and decorum read the following examples of how you will not achieve this with this company. Many of the items in the house with high values were priced ridiculously low or ridiculously high. Why low? Well what Brian doesn't disclose is that he runs a warehouse in Long Island. He has friends or associates purchase those low priced items and guess where they end up at a much higher markup? The warehouse in Long Island! The same goes for items priced extremely high. If you have hired him for the subsequent clean out, these higher priced items that didn't sell and were supposedly going to charity go to guess where??? The Long Island warehouse! The REST of the items in the house WERE NOT priced, giving Brian carte blanche to price at will. And again--as I stood in my own house AND listened I would overhear him selling hundreds of dollars worth of grouped goods (i.e. china) for $25.00. Again, these items were most likely brought back to his warehouse. One might ask: Why would he undersell when he makes 35% of the total gross? Because friends..,he will be making a second commission when they end up in Long Island. He will swear up and down he is a "certified" appraiser of Art, antiques, oriental rugs, etc. You name it, he is equipped to price. He will bark this at the sale buyers, the homeowner, even the mailman as he walks by. The point is--these are all fabrications--that he uses his bogus credentials with increasing frequency, volume, and mendacity to bully and intimidate whomever he feels he needs to. Do yourselves a favor. Go to his website and look at his purported awards of distinction--including his recognition by the BBB. This is all fabrication. The BBB has NO record of him. Most of the other awards either didn't exist or if they did, there were no record of him ever receiving one when I called the reward establishment. There's still more. He will push your clean out date, if you have asked for this service as well, to a date that is pressed right up against your deadline to be out of the house, citing "other sales" that make it impossible to do it sooner. And guess what? He can't quote you a price until your estate sale is done........Let me tell you how this went.....Our sale made about $12,000. He kept almost $4300 as a commission. That left us with roughly $7500. His estimate for the cleanup right on top of the closing date of the house? Almost $5,000. Fortunately, I had sensed this coming and had given a retainer to a well known clean out company and retained the services of our usual cleaning ladies. The total cost for the same job--$1,000.00 I don't like to disparage people and almost didn't write this review because there was nothing positive to say and we have enough negativity in this country right now. If Brian read or reads this he would have an answer and biting comeback for everything. If I could turn back time, I truly would donate the entire contents of the house rather than to allow him to make one cent of profit off of me and my family. Please, if you or your loved ones, or your friends or your neighbors EVER contemplate using this man (this business goes by 2 or 3 different names by the way) you MUST RUN THE OTHER WAY and LOCK YOUR DOORS.

Brian and his staff held an estate sale on out behalf. We didn't think we had that much stuff but boy were we wrong. We had already filled a 20 yard dumpster before calling him to do the sale so we could move in. He came on Friday to look and see if he was interested in doing a sale or if we should just have a clean out. He said we should do the sale. Monday they set up. This sale was held the following Friday and Saturday. We made a profit of around $11,000 of which he gets 30%, more than fair. We still had so much left over we could have had another sale, but we decided to just do a clean out for $2200. Totally worth every penny. His crew came this morning and in just 4 hours they had the house completely cleaned out. 2 more 20 yard dumpsters were filled and the house was move in ready. It would have taken us weeks to do what they did. And the house never smelled better! A big thank you to Brian, Joe, Louise, and the cleaning crew.

All the jewelry and some antiques were taken out supposedly sold for practically nothing ( meaning stolen) before the day of the sale

Very pleasant women and very knowledgeable, I think....but too much charge for me.  It is hard to guarantee a price....I would gladly except their per centage but cannot guarantee anything since I don't know what they make on a tag sale.

I hired Brian to hold an estate/tag sale in my parents' house. It had been lived in for almost 60 years. My parents were " antique collectors". The house was three floors and a basement filled with collections including fine furniture and china and art work. The basement held player piano as well as furniture and books, etc. Brian looked around and told me that it would cost $3500 to do the job. This included setting up for the sale, the sale , and then cleaning out the house, leaving it " broom clean".
Brian came with assistants and setup the house for the sale. It was beautifully organized. I was not present for the sale, but Brian called me to say that the owed me money because he made $4100. The deal wasthat I was to pay the difference between the $3500 estimate he gave me if he made less than that amount. However he made more than the $3500 contracted for. Therefore he owed me money.
I went back to the house two days later, and found it to be broom clean as promised. I called Brian and told him that I was pleased with the job he had done. I also noted that several bricks on the steps leading to the entrance had been dislodged. He said he would try to fix them. Upon returning to the house, I noticed that the bricks were not cemented into place, and would be dangerous to be stepped on. I had to call a mason to fix them and paid $550 .
I called Brian several times about the money I'm owed. He never returned my calls and of course he has not sent me money.
To sum this up: Brian did a fine job in setting up , selling amd cleaning out the house.
He did not honor his part of the contract by paying the money I'm owed and he made no real effort to fix the brick steps.

If he should send me the money he owes me, I would change my review since I was very satisfied with the rest of his work.

We had another problem occur when he noted that a brass wood holder was sold for $5 in which it was sold for $15.00. Everything that was mine he tried to put the price so high that people would not buy it. I tried to talk to Brian later about the sales at the end of the day and he proceeded to again yell profanity at me. I left him and walked outside and his staff apologized for his behavior. He had a total lack of respect for the people, customer, and property. He tossed his cigerettes on the front lawn and left his personal garbage all over the house. I would caution anyone ever considering to use him to find someone else.