About Us
Estatesalesaustintx was founded by Keith Warner and Mark Thomas, in 2011. Both had previously worked for the Warren-Oden estate sale company. Keith had his own property management company for 25 years and was an antique expert. Mark worked at Lockheed Martin for 20 years and has been an antique dealer since 1997. Our business grew due to hard work and a loyal customer base that appreciated
professional service and reasonable prices. Sadly, Keith passed away in 2022, however, Estatesalesaustintx continues to serve the greater Austin area.
James Urias, a former United States Marine, is joining Mark Thomas as a partner at Estatesalesaustintx. James has been an antique dealer and collector for over 10 years and has a wide range of knowledge from antiquities to modern day treasures.
We welcome the opportunity to help with your estate sale needs.
PRICING
We will always have up front prices for peace of mind to our clients. Situation dictates how much we will charge for our services, the factors are timeline, amount of sellable items, state of the home, and anything else we can discuss in our inital meeting. Typically for an estate sale we will charge 30-40% of total sales, this will include staging, cleaning, pricing, advertising, and paying our staff. Things that will need to be discussed will be clean out of unsold items, we work closely with charities in the Central Texas area that we can donate unwanted items to or we can work on selling high end items that didn't sell to our network of third party buyers. We will always strive to do right by our clients and get as much revenue as possible for everyone of our estate sales.
Left Over Items
This is completely dependent on the client, if you would like us to sell items that weren't purchased at the inital estate sale we can do so and put those in another sale at a future date. Items can also be donated and itemized for tax deductions. If we have sold the majority of the items but there is still a mountain of items we will work with the client to find a solution, if a roll off dumpster is necessary it will be at the expense of the home owner/ executor but we can help facilitate the trash removal at a lower rate through our network.