Process
Commercial contents, a hard deadline, and usually a lease or a lender in the background. The process below is built for that reality: decisions up front, everything documented, and a premises hand-back date you can rely on.
We meet at the premises, walk the contents, and talk through your deadline, your lease or lender requirements, and anything that must be kept, returned, or excluded. You get straight answers about what is saleable and what is removal-only.
You receive a proposal covering scope, sale format, marketing plan, schedule, staffing, commission, and the clear-out commitment. Nothing is sold, moved, or advertised until the agreement is signed.
Contents are counted, photographed, and cataloged into lots or priced inventory. Equipment is noted by make, model, and condition as observed. You approve the inventory — and flag anything to pull — before marketing starts.
Pricing follows the format: staged retail pricing for on-site sell-throughs, or cataloged lots with opening bids for auctions. The sale is advertised to restaurant and retail trade buyers, resellers, equipment dealers, and the general public through the channels that match the contents.
Our crew staffs the sale: buyer check-in, payment processing, load-out supervision, and security-minded handling of the premises. Auction pickups run on scheduled days with paid-in-full release only.
You receive an itemized settlement statement showing gross sales, commission, and agreed expenses, with payment on the schedule in the agreement. Remaining unsold items are handled as the agreement provides — donation, removal, or return — and the premises are left broom-clean.
A typical engagement runs two to six weeks from signed agreement to empty premises, depending on volume and format. A hard deadline — lease end, closing date, court date — goes in the agreement, and the schedule is built backwards from it. Earlier is always better: contents marketed with lead time consistently outperform contents marketed in a rush.
We work on commission, quoted in writing after the walk-through. The percentage depends on the contents, the format, and the labor involved, and it is stated in the agreement before any work begins. There are no invented estimates and no line items you didn’t agree to.
What we ask of you: access to the premises, any landlord or lender requirements in writing, and one decision-maker we can reach. We handle the rest.
Thirty to sixty minutes on site, and you’ll have a written plan with real options.