House of Bid
How to find an estate sale company
Families who do not want to run the sale themselves hire an estate sale company on House of Bid. Those companies photograph in the rooms and list a timed catalog here. Auction houses on Houses are catalogs you bid on. We do not scrape EstateSales.NET or copy their company directory. List your company at Join. Or run the sale yourself on Sell.
Who is Find a company for?
People settling a house who want a professional to walk the rooms, photograph lots in place, and run the clock. You are hiring an operator, not browsing other people's walk-through ads. Public company cards live on /companies after ops approve the listing.
How is this different from Auction houses?
Auction houses on /houses are repeating catalogs you bid on — warehouse surplus, independent lockups, Managed House rates after invitation. Estate companies on /companies are liquidators families hire for an in-home sale. One business can be both, but the jobs are not the same page.
Do you copy EstateSales.NET’s company directory?
No. We do not scrape their /companies roster, clone their account pages, or auto-post sales to their site. Companies listed here applied on Join. Tips for choosing are House of Bid questions: same list for every conversation, in-place versus warehouse, catalog you can send, preview in a private home.
Can I still run the sale myself?
Yes. Event and Yard prices stay public on Pricing and Sell. Hiring a company is optional. Post, build awareness, add inventory in the rooms, then set the auction date and preview.
Questions
Are any companies listed today?
- Not until ops approve a listing. San Diego is first. Empty is honest — we do not invent hireable names.
How does a company get on the page?
- Apply at /join?kind=estate-company. Approval queues a listing notice in staging. SMTP stays gated until live-gate smoke passes.