Seeking an experienced estate liquidation manager; one who can carry heavier objects of up to 50 / 60 lbs with excellent teamwork and organizational skills, and experience with estate liquidations who will assist Principal in relocating from the Northeast (New York, in the Mid-Hudson Valley) to the West Coast.
Job Dates: December until the end of April, May, or June, 2025, whenever the relocation is complete. Principal is hiring for one position. Candidate will assist with the daily household cleaning, sorting, packing, sourcing, vetting, and orchestrating and supervision of an estate liquidation, furniture restoration, and relocation.
Candidate must own a car.
Principal is seeking candidates with experience in successfully planning and executing an estate liquidation. Verifiable career references for relevant estate liquidation experience; having past relevant experience in assistance with auctions and estate liquidations performed by candidates for previous employers will be mandatory.
The candidate will need to work as a team with the Principal. The activities include all of the necessary tasks required for a complicated, high-level relocation and partial estate liquidation, including assistance with organizing and packing of the entire household, arranging for fine furniture restoration of approximately twenty antique items, planning and orchestrating a private in-home estate liquidation, selling items through local auction, and of course, to arrange all transportation for the liquidation, furniture restoration, storage, and related tasks for a cross-country relocation.
Principal needs an applicant who will carefully and expediently pack up the entire household for the upcoming move, along with all related duties. The ideal candidate will work together with the Principal to take the reigns; to fully manage the estate liquidation to: research, vet, and do background and review checks for finding the best possible companies that offer: fine furniture restoration, auction house services, temporary rentals of storage units / storage pods, assisting with truck transportation (for transport of estate sale & auction items, arrange for truck transport for the move cross-country, and for dumpster rentals (for weekly household clean-outs).
*** NOTE: This is not a remote/work-from-home position. All work will be done on-site.
Candidate will be working weekdays with the Principal on-site, at two nearby residences,
for up to 5 or 6 hours per day. ***
**** Daily household cleaning, organization, and personal errands will be required. ****
The most important work will be performing as a personal assistant, orchestrating and planning of all aspects related for the relocation with: researching reputable companies; making calls to source and vet companies, such as fine furniture restoration companies, moving companies, and all other related necessities. Other minor home repair projects will also be needed. Experience with vetting and hiring laborers or contractors will be necessary.
The ideal candidate will play the key role in packing, sourcing, vetting, negotiating, budgeting, vetting and assistance with hiring, supervising, and corresponding with superior “master” fine antique furniture restoration companies, vetting honest and reputable auction houses, and reputable movers for transporting of several antique items to furniture restoration companies, auction houses, and to temporary storage.
Candidate will need special expertise in vetting master furniture restorers (who specialize in fine furniture restoration for metal and wooden antiques).
The principal will need help with carefully sorting through and of packing the entire household for the move. Tasks include inventorying, labeling boxes, helping the Principal with sorting through boxes of items to be set aside to either retain (for the relocation), items to be restored, or to sell at an in-home estate sale, and for sale at an auction house, or to give to donation. All items for sale will need to be carefully handled and inventoried for estate sale and auction record keeping. Client will be liquidating and downsizing 30 to 50% of the household, and will be putting the home on the market for sale.
Description of the position:
The candidate will be carefully inventorying, packing and labeling, in cooperation with the employer, who’ll be deciding which items will be sold at the estate sale, which items will go for sale at local auction, and prepare for all transportation.
The candidate will be contacting external parties, such as rental facilities, dumpster rental companies, vetting master furniture restorers, vetting moving and moving insurance companies, vetting auction houses, renting and/or buying necessary resources, etc.
Employer is not looking for just a mover, but a candidate who either has experience with estate liquidations and can assist with seamlessly orchestrating it and are aware of the worth of items as they are used to in their position.