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Anne: Finding your web page was the best thing that could have happened to me & my wife! As a retail professional for more than 35 years, I recognized right away that you knew how to make this happen, & the results were everything I could have hoped for. You understand how to price, promote, & conduct an estate sale to achieve maximum results. In spite of a difficult homeowners organization, you & your team moved quickly & efficiently to sell off the contents of our Austin home, getting good pricing & leaving us with a nice clean home to deliver to the buyers. Thanks for a difficult job well done! Sam & Mardi Crowley Coppell, TX September 9, 2008 Thanks for the professional yet friendly manner in which you conduct your sales. Today I purchased a number of Texana books & you recognized my dealer status....Thanks again for all the effort you put into conducting these estate sales. Charles Locke Garfield Country Store Del Valle, TX August 31, 2008 Hi Anne: Here is a testimonial to go on your website. We mean every word. When our parents moved into assisted living, we were faced with the question of what to do with all the possessions our family had accumulated over forty years in our family home. Our house was packed to the rafters with furniture, clothes, books, collectibles, & memorabilia from our parents sixty years of marriage. To make matters worse, nobody in our family ever liked to throw anything away & we had never had a garage sale! The task of cleaning out the house (& our very messy garage) seemed almost impossible. Anne Dee was a godsend to us. She came in & worked tirelessly for two weeks to set up a living estate sale. Anne & her colleagues carefully researched how much our things were worth & priced them fairly. Anne made sure everything was clean, organized, & attractively presented. We appreciated Annes professional & straightforward approach, & especially appreciated the kind & respectful way in which she dealt with us & our parents. It made a difficult time so much easier. The estate sale came off beautifully. It was well publicized & well attended, & our parents felt good about the results. It was such a relief to know that we had chosen the right person for the job! Anne & her team are fantastic, & we will always be grateful for everything they did for us. Mary & Liz Clare Austin, TX July 23, 2008 Hey Anne, I just wanted to tell you how much we appreciated everything that you did for us. The sale went great & it was a pleasure to work with you. [We] are really enjoying the clean house ... it is even better than we expected!! Shelby Marquardt BlueSkyScrubs.com Austin, TX June 6, 2008 Our experience with Anne Dee was serendipitous! We were at the end of our proverbial rope, having spent eight consecutive weekends traveling from Dallas to Georgetown to sort through the belongings of our dearly cherished friend. We knew we needed to have an estate sale, but had no clear ideas as to how it should be run. Recalling garage sales & yard sales we had conducted in the past, we figured a few signs, a newspaper ad & some price tags was all that we needed. However, the sheer volume of items quickly made it apparent that we were ill-equipped to handle this gargantuan task. Even though we both have experience in sales & merchandising, we didnt even know where to begin to price a tea cup collection from the early part of the century should they be $5 or $50 each? Our discussions led to arguments that ultimately led to frustration & added stress. It was then that we decided to search the internet for an estate sale service in the Austin area. The results of our search were very interesting. First, there are very few true estate sale services with an internet presence. Second, of those listed, a few have only a phone number & a basic description. Third, the standard commission in the industry seemed to be 50%, which seemed rather exorbitant to us. Finally, we found Anne Dee. Her website was so informative & easy to read. Every single question that we had been asking for weeks was clearly answered in her 10 Tips section. When we picked up the phone to call, all we had to do was explain our situation & ask her when she could come see the house. Anne & her colleagues worked tirelessly for two weeks to prepare for the sale. The house was turned upside down shelves for books and glass were brought in, tables were supplied & neatly arranged to create a flow to the traffic through the house & each item was meticulously cared for & priced according to their vast knowledge of the antique markets & experience with what prices items will actually sell for. Anne told us to stay in Dallas until the weekend of the estate sale & not worry about a thing. Her calm, professional demeanor eased our minds & allowed us to sleep at night, knowing we were in good hands. The weekend of the estate sale worked like clockwork. Big, yellow signs with directional arrows were placed all over town. It would have taken much of our time to make signs & put them out & pick them up each day not to mention the cost of making them. Anne manned the checkout station while [her colleagues] expertly answered questions & welcomed people to the sale. They were a well-oiled machine. All items of value were kept within their sights & smaller items such as jewelry were placed in special glass cases. The house had been turned into a showroom! We were amazed at what people bought. Some came for the rare finds while others sifted through books & records & others went straight for the old tools. Nearly everything in the entire house sold that weekend. When the sale was finished, all items of no value were taken to the dump, & those with some value were donated to charity. The handful of items that remained after that were taken to another sale that Anne was conducting two weeks later & they all sold. Anne sent us a full inventory & a check for the proceeds within three days of the sale weekend. We were so pleased with the outcome! Even after her fee, we realized more from the sale than we would have if we had conducted it on our own. We offer our heart-felt thanks & gratitude to Anne [& her colleagues] for all they did for us. They are now a proud part of our familys history & we cherished every moment we spent with them. Reflecting back, we should have called Anne after our first trip to Georgetown! David Bauman Dallas, TX & Nancy Gray Garland, TX May 19, 2008 Dear Anne. Thank you for the e-mail regarding the Preview Sale in Berry Creek. It was nice to meet you & I appreciated the way you handled the sale. Everything was clean, organized & priced & I believe most things were priced fairly. You were very cordial to deal with....Thanks again for your kindness & for doing a good job at what you do. That is sometimes rare these days & deserves to be recognized. Good luck in all your endeavors. John Bright Georgetown, TX April 7, 2008 Anne & Team, WOW! What a great job you all did on the estate sale. You were upfront with us about the process that was needed to make this a great sale & you carried it out. I really appreciate how easy it was to work with you & all of your staff. When we contacted you, we were overwhelmed & exhausted & we had only begun going through the memories that were in that home. You & your team came in, pulled out all of the family memories & packed them up for us to go through when we can muster the time & energy that it takes, worked numerous hours to organize & prepare for the estate sale & worked non-stop for four days to help us reach the end goal of sharing the extra memorabilia with others through the sale. You truly showed that you understood the emotional ties that we had to these belongings & helped us to move on as [they] would have wanted us to. As promised, you had the house sparkling when we put it on the market & it sold within twenty-four hours! Again, thanks to you & your team for helping us with this truly emotional time in our lives. Please feel free to use us as a reference for any other possible clients! You all did a fantastic job! Tina Folts Austin, TX August 11, 2007 |
