Estate Sales Referrals and Liquidation Success Stories

We're delighted to share a small sampling of our estate sale & liquidation success stories and customer testimonials...

" Hi Doug, I would like to take a moment and thank you for the excellent service you provided for my mother and me at a crucial time. After 50 years of ownership, my mom sold the house. Since my dad had died, I was the only one to help her go through and organize her belongings, and vacate the house. With time being short, the job was overwhelming. I just could not manage the whole project. I prayed for guidance and help. Then one afternoon you walked up and kindly explained your service. You gained my trust with your graciousness and sensitivity to our situation and carried through the job with integrity. As I look back, what helped us through that whole stressful time was your unique service, carried out with respect for other's belongings as well as other people's feelings. I think this is a great gift you have and I thank you for it. That is an aspect of professionalism that is often missing in business; really caring about the customer's feelings. "

" Doug has sold items from my Estate. He was highly professional in all his accomplishment. There is not any individual with more integrity and honesty and is above reproach. He puts so much effort in everything he does and desires nothing but the highest results from his research. I would highly recommend him to everyone that has something to sell."

Thank-you Doug!
~ Ed Schmitt

" Thanks again Doug, for your faithfulness to this customer. I know you are trustworthy. And we are sure glad you came by when you did. "

Sincerely,
~ Bob Dresser

" My husband and I had traveled from Wisconsin to help a distant relative who had no other living relatives to help her. She was suffering from dementia and we were exhausted! Just dealing with the enormity of all the decisions and wanting to realize the maximum monetary value of the contents of the home for her on-going health care was seemly more than we could bear. With A Step Beyond's help 80% of the contents sold! "

Eternally grateful,
~ Marge from Wisconsin

In July of 2006, A Step Beyond Estate Sales Company was hired to represent and conduct the estate sale liquidation of Mr. Bruce Newton, recognized by the Aurora Historical Society as the creator of “Garfield Goose”, a children’s television show that predated Bozo the Clown. Channel 2 in Chicago, Illinois, was on-site for that interview. The estate was located in Aurora, IL and was totally packed from floor to ceiling with turn-of-the Century and one-of-a kind antiques throughout an 18 room house, with secret passageways leading to various rooms. This proved to be one of Chicagoland’s largest estate and unique liquidations ever, of which A Step Beyond Estate Sales was privileged to have conducted.

A Step Beyond Estate Sales & Liquidation conducted an estate sale for an older woman in Aurora Illinois, in 2004. Amidst her belongings was an old Pez container. Broken and cracked, and by her own admission said she would have thrown it away as garbage, we sold her old broken Pez gun for $750.00... and she was thrilled! This is why we encourage our clients not to throw anything out prior to our consultation and estate sale. A Step Beyond’s vast knowledge and resources command top dollar on behalf of our clients.

In 2006, A Step Beyond conducted a Wheaton Illinois estate sale liquidation for a client who is a personal friend of Chuck Norris. He had a DeLorean automobile, completely restored, which he had tried to sell personally but was unable to. A Step Beyond Estate Sales was able to attract numerous offers for our client and ultimately we sold the DeLorean for $11,000 ABOVE his asking price to one very happy customer. Our client was over the moon! Throughout the years, we've had many happy buyers travel across the country for items we've sold on behalf of our clients.

A Step Beyond sold two Antique Model A Fords in 2006. Each car sold for $3,000.00 above what the current market suggested. These vehicles were just a small part of the Aurora, IL estate liquidation sale that we conducted on behalf of our client, Mr. Bruce Newton, creator of Garfield Goose.

In 2000, A Step Beyond Estate Sales & Liquidation was able to successfully sell a CF Martin Ukulele (valued at $45 from another Chicago sale) for $2,750 Dollars to another pleased customer!

A Step Beyond Estate Sales, Chicago IL
Chicago's Estate Sales & Liquidation Service Company