Customer ReviewsforCertified Estate Specialists

He uses the BBB logo on his website although not a BBB accredited company. The owner of this company is a fraud and a thief. **** is shrewd and unscrupulous. He promised to put our belongings up for auction, have an in house sale the day after auction pick up, donate the remainder of the items, and lastly, remove whatever was left. We have a 7500 sq ft victorian home, which we have lived in for 52 years. His description of how he lists and sells was all a lie. He took hundreds of photos in my home, and only placed 200 out of 500+ items in the auction. There was copper, a piano, asian carpets, a treadmill, multiple full sets of dishes, among hundreds of other things. His claim was that they would do better at the in house sale following the auction. **** then claimed he only sold $600 at the in house sale. This is impossible and unbelievable. He claims over 300 people went through my house...only $600 dollars? He told me he had "people" for special items....vintage clothing, copper, etc. He then had the nerve to tell me that these people came and said it was all worth nothing. He then immediately had some of the stuff removed, claimed that it was donated THE SAME DAY, to the ****** organization. He refused to send me the donation receipts. My attorney contacted him. After threatening my attorney, he magically pulled together a donation receipt from ******, signed by the Rabbi. GUESS WHAT? We have spoken with the Rabbi. They never saw or signed such a receipt, and never accepted any of the claimed donations. WHERE ARE MY BELONGINGS that he claims to have donated? Where is my receipt for the donations? Why didn't he run a proper auction...during the auction he was shill bidding (bidding up on items so that the price would go higher) totally unethical. He did not run a proper in home sale, and then he stole the rest of my stuff. I plan to report him to the police and the IRS. Read review by *** *. I could have written it myself. He will call me a liar. Stay away!!!

I used **************************** for liquidating my father's apartment. The owner claimed that what made him different from his competitors was that he had a large network of buyers. He said that the others were going to just try to sell everything for a few dollars at auction. He also told me to not throw anything out because he would try to auction everything. He came and took photos of 300 items. When the auction for the property was placed online, I saw that he had done exactly what he said others did. He had placed about 100 items on the auction with $1 minimum bids. The remainder of the items including all of the silver and china were not listed. I questioned him and he said that he was arranging for private dealers to come to the apartment to look at these items. There were many things that I could have discarded that were never offered for sale. As the auction progressed most items didn't really move and I can't say that this business was any different from the competition. The auctioned items produced about $1000 which was about one-third of what he charged me for the sale and clean up. The other items didn't sell at all. He told me that none of the dealers were able to make it to the sale. He said that all of the valuable items were then donated to some charitable organizations. My wife and I asked for the receipts for the donations multiple times but received nothing. For all we know, he could have sold stuff to those people who "never came" and pocketed the cash. If the donations were real, then he should have provided me with the evidence. That was still my property and therefore my tax deductible donations. Since all of his money is made up front, there is no incentive for him to put any work into the auction and sale. Basically it is a very well organized scam.