For families, executors, and the professionals who refer them
The house has to be empty by the 30th
That is the call we take most often. New Leaf Bids catalogues, photographs, and auctions what the next home has no room for — while New Leaf Senior Transitions handles the move around it.
What happens
Six steps, one team
You do not need to sort anything before we arrive. Sorting is the job.
1. Walkthrough
We come to the house, look at everything, and tell you plainly what is likely to sell well, what is worth donating, and what is not worth either. No charge for the conversation.
2. Plan and timeline
You get a written plan against your real deadline — the close of escrow, the move-in date at the community, the date the keys change hands.
3. Sorting and keepsakes
Family pieces, photographs, and documents come out first and go where you say. Nothing is catalogued until the keeping decisions are made.
4. Catalogue and photograph
Lots are described honestly, condition and flaws included, and photographed in daylight. Accurate listings are what bring bidders back to the next sale.
5. The auction
Bidding runs online, open to anyone. You see the results lot by lot when it closes — every price, in public, not a lump-sum offer made at the kitchen table.
6. Clear-out
Winners collect, donations go to charity with the receipt in your hands, and the remainder is hauled. The house is empty on the date it needed to be empty.
What sells
More than you would guess
Bidders come for the ordinary as much as the exceptional. Estates that families assumed were 'nothing special' routinely surprise them — particularly garages, workshops, and anything bought once and kept for forty years.
Furniture and rugs
Mid-century, traditional, and outdoor. Sets and single pieces both find buyers; large pieces do better at auction than at any tag sale.
Art, silver, and china
Framed art, prints, sterling, service sets, and glass. Marks and makers get researched before a lot is written.
Tools and shop contents
Woodworking and machine tools, garden equipment, and the accumulated contents of a working garage — some of the most competitive bidding we see.
Collections
Coins, stamps, models, records, books, and the decades-long collections that no single dealer wants to price fairly.
The honest part
What we tell you before you sign anything
An auction is the right answer for a lot of households and the wrong one for some. We would rather say so at the walkthrough than after.
Not everything is worth selling
Mass-market furniture from the last twenty years usually is not. We will tell you which rooms are worth cataloguing and which are a donation run.
The market sets the price
An estimate is an estimate. Open bidding sometimes clears it by a multiple and sometimes does not reach it — that is the trade for a real market price.
Timing matters
Cataloguing a household takes days, not hours. The earlier in the move you call, the more of the value we can actually capture.
Fees are explained up front
What we charge, what comes out of the proceeds, and what is billed as move-management work — in writing, before any of it starts.
Start with a walkthrough
Serving Sacramento, Placer, and El Dorado counties. Call (916) 761-2539 or email support@newleafbids.com.