Hello all,

     Happy New Year!  We wish you a happy and

prosperous 2009!!

     Our next estate sale will be on the weekend of

January 31st through February 1st.  For more

information about this sale, scroll down to the

"Heritage House Estate Sale Schedule"

at the bottom of the page.

    By the way....do you know anyone who wants to rent one

or two bedrooms in a south Orcutt (Santa Maria) area home?

Most of you know our vivacious redhead employee and friend,

Leona--she is renting two of the rooms out of her house.  The

rooms rent for $550 each.  They are completely furnished,

including linens and blankets.  Included in the rental are house

and garden privileges.  In the kitchen there are: a stove,

oven, refrigerator, dishwasher, and microwave.  The lovely

fenced backyard has a covered patio and BBQ. Use of a

washer and dryer is also included.  If interested, please

call Leona at: (805)937-7730.

                                             Regards,

                                             Jim, Carolyn, and Bella Rivaldi

                                             and the staff of

                                             Heritage House Liquidators

                                             ...serving our community since 1987!

    For information about upcoming estates sales, please 

SCROLL
DOWN

to the

"Heritage House Estate Sale Schedule."

We have a sale scheduled for Saturday, December 27th.

         Thank you, loyal customers and clients, for voting us as the winner

of the

2008 "Best of Santa Maria Estate Sales" which was awarded by the

US Local Business Association.  The award was given based upon client

and customer feedback.  We really DO appreciate you, and we look

forward to continued service to our community!

 Planning on having an estate, moving, or 
          business liquidation sale? 

Please feel free to contact Carolyn on her cell phone at: (805)878-1978. 

Get all the facts before you hire a liquidator.  You can't choose one based

upon the rate of commission only!  All services are NOT the same!

While Heritage House has the LOWEST COMMISSION POSSIBLE

(down to 10%), we offer many services and features that other services

usually do not.

For example:

                    ...Heritage House carries a million dollar liability policy

                            to protect our clients and customers!

                    ....Heritage House is bonded!

                    ....Heritage House staff are protected by Workmen's Comp

                    ....Heritage House uses MORE staff per sale than is

                              standard for our industry--this means more sales

                              and better protection of your property and contents.

                    .....Heritage House has appraisers on staff.

                              .....Heritage House is the only local liquidator to utilize its

                                             own website (and others) to advertise your sale with

                                             BOTH descriptions and pictures of the items for sale!

                              .....Heritage House has unparalleled experience;we are

                                             the oldest liquidation company on the Central Coast!

                                             Put that experience to work for you!

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   HELP NEEDED:     We need a strong person who can help customers move furniture as

well as check receipts and put out the signs.  Some mechanical ability is required as we sometimes

have to disconnect washers and refrigerators.  You would need to know how to use a furniture

dolly.  We prefer someone with a sunny disposition and a "can do" attitude.  A valid driver's license

and a clean DMV record are a must.  Since we are bonded, we need someone without a felony

conviction or a conviction for a misdemeanor involving moral turpitude.   We would like someone

who is available about one to two weekends a month in the Santa Maria area. We typically

work from about 8 a.m. on Saturday until around 2 p.m.   On Sunday we work from around

1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Pay is about $10 per hour DOE.  If interested, please call Carolyn at:

878-1978,

or send me an e-mail at:   heritagehouse@thegrid.net

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                    ABOUT MAKING OFFERS/BIDS AT

OUR ESTATE SALES

OR

BUSINESS LIQUIDATION SALES:  Offers can be made to staff during the

          sale on Saturday. After the sale, offers can be made on Saturday either by phone

          (937-3855) or e-mail at:  heritagehouse@thegrid.net    We ask that you carefully

          consider before making a bid; we consider a bid to be a firm offer. Click on the

          blue e-mail address to contact us. You can make two kinds of bids:

                         (1) you can make a fixed bid of a certain amount;

                         or (2) you can make an eBay-style bid in which you make a bid "range".

                                   In other words, you might make a bid of AT LEAST a certain amount

                                   and AT MOST a certain amount.  Carolyn will advance your bid in

                                   $5 increments based upon other people's bids.  If no one else makes a bid,

                                   the item will be won by you at the LOWEST amount of your bid. We are

                                   normally looking at bids for OVER HALF. 

               If an item is over, say $20, we would like the bid to be at least $5 over half price. 

          For items under $20,  bids over half can be made in $1 increments over half.  We notify all

          bidders  who bid over half--whether you win or not--late on Saturday or early on Sunday. 

          If we do not receive an offer on an item, it will go for 1/2 off on Sunday--but it can not

          be sold for 1/2 off to anyone who made a bid on that particular item.  If a bid was made for

          UNDER HALF, we will notify you in the afternoon on Sunday if you have won the bid. 

          After the crowd clears out on Sunday, we are looking at offers for  UNDER HALF. 

          In most cases, our intention is to completely clear out the house. So don't be  shy; we don't

          offend easily! :)  Be aware, though, that our clients may give us differing instructions

          from sale to sale. Feel free to talk to staff about making an offer--we are here to assist you! 

Click here to see a few pictures of items we have for sale.

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     *****HERITAGE HOUSE ESTATE SALE SCHEDULE*****

                                         *Please note that we can do more than one sale per weekend!       

>>>>Weekend of January 31st-February 1st:

         1512 East Pine

          in

          Lompoc, CA

 Dates and Times for the Lompoc Estate Sale: 

               Saturday, 1/31/09 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

and         1/2 off most remaining items on Sunday, 2/1/09 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Contents of the Lompoc Estate Sale:  This house is so, so full!  It has furniture

and small items alike!  We are selling appliances, musical instruments, a synthesizer,

and a Karaoke machine!  More information will come...keep checking the website.

Happy New Year

                         from

                              our family

                         to

                              yours!

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   Thank you for your continued patronage.  Have you any suggestions for us

to improve our service?  Had a bad experience?  Please tell us

about it.  Jim and I are committed to your satisfaction; we can't improve our

service if we don't know about a problem!  Liked the way we handled

something?  PLEASE TELL US!  Your satisfaction is really important to us! If you

have any feedback about our service, or questions, we love to hear from our clients and

customers! If you wish to contact us, you may e-mail us at: heritagehouse@thegrid.net

Click on the blue e-mail address to create a reply.  Or you may leave a  message

on our machine: (805)937-3855, or toll-free at: 1-800-761-3855.

     If you are contemplating hiring us for an estate sale, or we are currently

conducting an estate sale for you, we ask that you call Carolyn directly on

her cell phone: (805)878-1978. If you are an estate sale customer and wish to speak to

us about upcoming sales, you can either: send us an e-mail (click on the blue e-mail address

above to create a reply), OR you may leave a message at our office:

(805)937-3855; or toll-free: 1-800-761-3855. We return all phonecalls and e-mails

within 24 hours. If we do not return your call, it means that we did NOT get your message, so

please call back and let us know that it is a second call.  If you call Carolyn's cell phone, please

leave your phone number twice to be sure that we got it. We love hearing from our clients

and customers! YOU are the reason that we are the Central Coast's oldest and largest liquidation

company!

P.S:  We really DO appreciate all the referrals we receive from satisfied clients, happy customers,

realtors, and attorneys!  Thank you!  If you do refer a sale to us, make sure to let us know.  Sometimes

your friends and clients forget to tell us that you referred us. You don't have to worry that we will contact

the folks that you have referred; we wait for them to call us unless we are instructed otherwise.  We like

to know because we want to send you a special "thank you" gift if the referral hires us!

                                                  Faithfully yours

                                                  Jim and Carolyn Rivaldi

                                                  Heritage House Liquidators

                                                  ...serving our community since 1987!

                                                  (805)937-3855

                                                  1-800-761-3855

                                                  E-mail: heritagehouse@thegrid.net

                                                  Website: http://www.heritagehousesales.com