Pricelessfind LLC

From beginning to end of the process, Ken and Alicia were extremely helpful, organized, hardworking and kind. They worked so hard. We earned twice the amount that the first appraiser had suggested we might make, and I would choose them again. It is such a painful and overwhelming process and time of life. With kindness and compassion, paired with knowledge and professionalism, Ken and Alicia were amazing. I give them my highest possible recommendation.

We interviewed seven – yes seven!! -- different companies for our late mother’s estate sale before finally selecting Priceless Find LLC, and we have no doubt we made the absolute best choice! Alicia immediately impressed us with how knowledgeable she was about the provenance and value of a wide variety of items (she is also a certified appraiser), enabling us to get the maximum realistic amount for our items. She also was energetic in presenting us with her plan for organizing and executing our sale at the house, as well as in setting up private pre- and post-sales for more unique or high value items. We also felt she had one of the fairest commission schemes of all the companies we considered, and throughout the process exhibited great honesty and integrity. The preparation Alicia and her team went through was impressive! Alicia spent considerable time in sorting through literally mountains of jewelry – both fine and costume – to assign the appropriate value, and then (with our permission) to reach out to known and trusted buyers who gave us maximum price for the more valuable items prior to the open-to-the-public house sale. Alicia and her colleagues were also able to connect us to a scrapper for miscellaneous coins and to other purchasers for unique and hard to dispose of items. For the household items, furniture, and clothing, the PricelessFind team made a Herculean effort to get everything organized attractively, securely, and safely in our home -- and priced to sell. The sale was advertised in numerous venues, and the actual sale days were fully staffed with experienced colleagues. Although you never get rid of everything, we were quite content with the results we had, and how much was sold overall. Finally, to assist us with the post-sale final cleanout of the house, Alicia also provided us with two references quotes from known companies so we could organize that quickly afterwards – very helpful!! All in all, we can’t say enough good things about Alicia, Ken, Jerry and the rest of the team – we’d highly recommend them to anyone in the area who is looking to go through the stressful and challenging process of emptying out a lifetime of ‘stuff’ in the most efficient and value-conscious way. PricelessFind rocks!!!!

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Alicia and her crew were first class. They spent several days in my aunts house prior to the sale categorizing, analyzing and pricing all items in the house. They brought tables and display cases and set them up.
They completely managed the process including crowd control during the rush times. I can not say enough good things about this company. My aunt had lived in this house since she was a child and died at 89 yrars old. The house was packed with treasures.
It was a big job and Priceless Finds came thru nicely. I would recommend them to my best friend.
This company is located about 1.5 hours from the sale site and that was no problem.

It went very good and she was very nice.

Alicia was very professional, punctual, easy to work with, and fair.  i highly recommend using her company to run an estate sale for you.  
In April 2014, I'd initially contacted Alicia after finding her company on Angie's List.  I based my decision to contact her on the fact that her reviews, although not many, were rated very highly.  My brothers and I were looking for someone to organize, advertise, and run an estate sale to sell the contents of our late parents' house that we no longer wanted.  We needed a professional such as Alicia to take responsibility for this task because we didn't live in the immediate area, and because of our work schedules, we only had free time on the weekends to work on the house.  We didn't have enough free time to organize and hold the sale ourselves.
Alicia met with us in April within a week of our contacting her.  She gave us a free consultation/estimate regarding if she'd thought we had enough items to hold a sale and if she thought that the sale would make enough money to make it worth her time and effort. 
Alicia agreed to run the sale for us, believing that she would break even, and we possibly would make a small profit from the items.  From that point forward, we verbally had to agree not to take anything our of the house (and therefore reduce the potential profits).  We also had to agree not to interfere with the sale in any way, such as deciding that an item would not be sold for a low price in front of a potential buyer.  Two of us family members came to the sale for moral support and to keep the buyers out of the rooms that they weren't supposed to venture into.  Other than that, we let Alicia and her assistant run the sale and didn't interfere.  
We decided to hold the sale in mid-July and gave Alicia only one to two weeks notice ahead of time.  A week or so before the sale, Alicia came to the house to organize the items, tag them with prices, and take photos of about 30 or 40 items to highlight on her website.  It seems as if there are regular estate-sale buyers who attend sales each weekend and follow the websites of people and businesses like Alicia's to know where the sales and good deals will be held next.   Alicia and her assistant also spent much of the Friday before the Saturday sale to organize and price the items and put up signs on the road advertising the sale.  Alicia made a deal with us that she would need to make a certain amount of money to pay her costs.  Then she would ask for 25% of the profits above that break-even point, and we could keep the other 75%.  
Near the end of the sale, Alicia also had a woman from a  separate business but with whom she works come to the sale to meet us and give us a price to clean out the remaining contents of the house and broom-sweep the house.  
The sale went very well.  We reached the break-even point needed to pay Alicia and her assistant.  In hindsight, we probably should have held the sale in the spring or in the fall, when fewer people are on summer vacations or at the beach.  As it turned out, the weather on the day of the sale (Saturday) was warm and sunny, so fewer people than Alicia had imagined attended the sale because they probably were out enjoying the great summer weather.  Maybe we also should have given Alicia more lead time to organize and advertise the sale, so we could have possibly attracted more buyers.  
Although she didn't need to, Alicia felt badly that the sale wasn't as well attended as she'd hoped, so she gave us 100% of the profits above the break-even point, instead of taking 25% or them as we originally agreed to. We ended up hiring the woman who cleans out houses to finish working on the house.  It cost significantly more than the profit we'd made from the sale, but my brothers and I felt it was worth it.  The clean-out woman and her crew took out every item that we had wanted her to dispose of and left the personal items (photographs, news articles, etc.) that my brothers and i are still going through.  The clean-out crew consolidated those items into one room.  The clean-out crew then donates these items to a charity somewhere in central Pennsylvania, which then sells the items to make money for programs to help people with special needs who are served by the charity.  The clean-out crew also cleaned out the basement, garage, and shed that contained items in them that are hard to disposed of in an environmentally safe manner, such as old appliances (large and small ones), motor oil, old paint cans, old lawn mowers, etc.  
For an additional fee, we paid the clean-out crew to help get the house ready to be sold.  They removed the picture hooks in the walls, filled the holes from the hooks, painted the walls a neutral color, and removed old wall-to-wall carpeting to reveal the hardwood flooring underneath.  These steps were taken to neutralize the decor of the home and update it, so we can put the house on the market to sell it.  
In summary, I'd definitely agree that we had a positive experience hiring Alicia and Pricelessfind, LLC.  She made the difficult job of cleaning out the house that my parents had owned for 50 years that much easier.   I would recommend her to anyone looking for someone to run an estate sale.  Alicia also is qualified to appraise items, although we didn't hire her for appraisal services.

I am generally not given to offering testimonials for any business contacts, but feel compelled to enthusiastically endorse Alicia of PricelessFind for her invaluable service to me in liquidating my brother?s possessions in an estate sale conducted in West Milford,NJ.  She was knowledgeable in identifying the value of things, pricing it appropriately and diligently and effectively advertising the sale to attract potential buyers. She and her staff were completely invested in making me happy from our first
telephone contact through the conclusion of a very successful sale.
Her professionalism was evident in her willingness to personally meet with me when other services instructed me to email photos of the items for sale.   I contacted several vendors that were recommended to me who made appointments they never kept and never bothered to call.  It was my good fortune to finally discover Alicia and unequivocally urge anyone who may be in need of such a service to contact her to insure their own satisfactory result.
 
    

Alicia was very professional and arranged for those things that did not sell to be removed from the house. She did a super job

When I called Alicia she said that she would come over and purchase anything they found of value.  That was perfect.  She called and confirmed the appointment and arrived at the scheduled time.  Alicia and her partner went through the house and purchased some items and gave us a fair price.  We were so happy to see these items get a new home.  They were both professional and friendly.  It was a very nice experience and we would recommend them.

Alicia Soukup from Priceless Find came to my grandfather's apartment to find items that may interest her for auction.  We had the task of liquidating my grandfather's "estate", a three bedroom apartment filled to the hilt with furniture, artwork, crystal, knick knacks and the like from the last 50 years.  Alicia was prompt, pleasant and professional.  She was very knowledgeable about antiques and items from the last century, and educated me on several of his nicer pieces.  She was reasonable and efficient, but respectful of his things and the difficult task we had.  She spent about $1000 for some of his smaller items.   I appreciated her professionalism, and  I would definitely use her again.

After 40 years with one family, the house under contract for sale was packed with furniture, household goods, a large collection of nearly new and unused high quality tools, as well as antique and collectible figures and personal items. I contacted several estate sale agents and, after phone interviews, asked Alicia of PricelessFind to meet me at the house to review the contents and see what she would suggest.
Alicia was very straightforward in explaining how she works. After she saw the contents and I explained that part of the estate was going to our sons and the other part to us, she said she would run the sale as 2 separate sales. She doesn't require a minimum price for holding the sale; she works strictly on commission. In our case, she established two separate commissions, one for the tools and one for the household goods.
Alicia is a certified in Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice. She knows what is valuable and what isn't and can disabuse sentimental and uneducated clients of the value of their belongings at an estate sale. It's a tricky business. What we wanted was to empty the house in the most efficient and clear-sighted way possible. This is a job for a professional who knows what the market will bear. 
PricelessFind organized and priced everything in the house. They brought in tables and glass cases for jewelry and "smalls." She estimated they spent about 100 hours pre-sale organizing, researching prices and tagging items. She advertised on-line in EstateSales.net and Craig's List and in local papers. She got the permit from the town and provided outdoor signs. She rightly stipulated that we were not to remove any belongings after she had established her commission and she made it clear she preferred we were not present during the sale although we were to stop by each day to pick up part of the payout.
On the sale days, she let in only 10 customers at a time so that she could best manage the sale and keep her eye on everything. She hired trusted helpers she has worked with in the past and she recommended a company that could clean out the remaining items and broom clean the premises after the sales ended.
Settling an estate and selling a family home is hard work. PricelessFind, LLC can make the estate sale a whole lot easier and I believe we got much better value than we had expected because we let a professional do it for us. It was well worth it.