THE AUCTIONARIUM INC Testimonials

Nice job at the home Saturday.  Your company will be recommended if I ever hear of anyone needing your assistance. 

 Kevin

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Hi Billy,

I'm sorry for the delayed response, but I took a few days and it seems like all last week was a big blur.......but I'm up and running again.

You don't know how grateful I am, you came through last minute and did an awesome job!!!  We are very pleased with the results and just wonder how come we didn't find you before.

 Mrs. Cushman was very pleased and I hope as a plus, you also enjoyed it.  When we begin discussions on what will happen next year I will most definitively call you, we would like to get a little more feedback, your professional assessment on the Auction.

I'm attaching the upcoming events  for the council maybe we can add an Auction to some.

Again, THANKS you were heaven-sent and I look forward to the opportunity to work with you again.

Best,

Lorena Bernal |  Development Director

BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
San Gabriel Valley Council

3450 East Sierra Madre Boulevard
Pasadena, California  91107
P 626.351.8815 x.258  |  F 626.351.5049
lorena.bernal@scouting.org<mailto:lorena.bernal@scouting.org>

Dale Stonebricker approached us after the Abbley Estate Auction where he was a winning bidder on a few of thousands of auction lots.

He said "...you are amazing it took you one day to do what took us two years... If we had known about The Auctionarium we would have used you in a heartbeat. Selling my parents estate was all hard work and almost tore apart my family..."

I had to explain that the job of The Auctionarium is to take a complex task such as sorting through over twenty thousand items in this case. Then to present the assets in the best light possible to sell them to the highest bidders at auction.

Dale went on "... it became like a full time job to me, first dealing with the yard sales myself. Then we hired an estate sale company but they only sold a few items, took a few and charged a fortune..."

It does not matter if it took you six months to set this up, everything was sold in a single day, it looked like there were 500 people here. (There were actually 327 registered bidders so it could have easily been over 500 in the crowd that day)

I am going to tell anyone I know who inherits an estate to call the Auctionarium first.

When Dale was told that we recovered over $17,000.00 hard auction cash from the donate pile alone he almost started to cry. He told us about donating two truck loads of stuff from his parents home that they could not sell at yard or estate sales.

Call The experts at The Auctionarium today 760-328-7570 delivering cash for homes, estates, collections, cars, boats, RV's and more is our job.

What do you do when you want to downsize or eliminate that monthly storage charge? Call Billy Burke at The Auctionarium!

Dale & Stans story about downsizing from a 3,900 sq ft home off El Paseo in Palm Desert to a studio apartment.

I thought I could sell all the big stuff on Craigslist and donate the small stuff. After two postings on Craigslist, I had enough.

After first I was sceptical about what they were offering, (to sell everything to the bare walls) but after meeting with Billy & Stephanie we decided to give it a try.

First of all, they are upfront about everything! You will not get what you think for each and every item and you will get more for something you thought was trash and not even worthy for donation.

They tell you upfront "we will turn your life upside down for a week". Then come in and photo, catalogue and stage everything. You say goodbye to what you are selling and come back to OMG, everything sold!

We even experimented with selling some landscape items, and after a few hiccups did realize it provided extra cash in our pockets. Billy & Stephanie were quick to respond to the concerns that we had. They DID NOT sell you a bill of goods, what they sold you was piece of mind that you were doing the right thing.

If I had to do it again, I would!

But I would only use Billy & Stephanie Burke and The Auctionarium since they proved they had the moxie to carry it out.

Thanks Billy and Stephanie.

Dale and Stan,

Palm Desert, CA

You did an excellent job on the auction, and I look forward to working with you in the future.

Regards,

In 1989 I sold an older 5-room house with central heat and air at absolute auction.  Five bidders were actively competing to win the bid, even though the house needed a lot of updating and work. 

It sold for $29,000. 

The buyer obtained a mortgage and made enough repairs to get the house up to code. 

He then rented it to a single parent with one 4-year-old child.  Three weeks after moving in the child, playing with matches while mom slept, set the bed on fire.   There was a lot of water and smoke damage to the house. 

Using insurance settlement, the owner spent $50,000 repairing and remodeling the house for himself and his wife to occupy. 

Just as he finished the work on the house, his wife left him so he called me to auction it. 

He now had a $25,000 mortgage against the house so we could not sell it at absolute auction. 

So 11 months after it sold for $29,000 at absolute auction and had $50,000 in improvements, I could not get an opening bid. 

I dropped all the way down to ask for $15,000. 

No bid! 

That is when I stopped accepting property to sell subject to confirmation.

The Auctionarium and the Burke family are stellar. Please give them a huge welcome to the desert. This is going to be such a good thing for art and artists and the local economy.

Not to mention FUN!

Liz Gilbert, Palm Desert.

Billy, the additional $250,000.00 your auction delivered above the realtors suggested listing price literally changed our lives.

Thank you very much, we would recommend your services to anyone.

"...Thank you so much for all the work you did in delivering cash for our Teton Springs homes..."

We were surprised that there were so many inquiries and that you had 8 bidders at the auction

Another one on the phone plus over 100 Internet bids.

The job was awesome and we would recommend your services to anyone.

"...Your company did an excellent job in recovering cash for the lender.
They should jump on this, take the money and run because property values are still going down..."

Comment after September 2007 auction of Teton Springs house for $715,000.00
The lender refused the cash, spent thousands on foreclosure and it is now listed at $599,000.00

Update October 2011: Property Value for Homes under $300,000.00

So much for waiting until "the market turns around" and prices go back up.