Review of Two of a Kind Estate Sales, NJ.

Summary

I do not recommend Two of a Kind Estate Sales, NJ. Read the details below for our experience.

I recommend you research how to pick an estate sale company. Estatesales.net has good details. I also recommend not leaving anyone alone on your property, or having cameras to refer back on. For us, this is a lesson learned.

Detailed Review

In early 2025, my family engaged Two of a Kind Estate Sales, NJ to help us with the sale of our parent's house. We engaged them to tear down a rotten shed, perform an estate sale, and do a clean out after the estate sale.

The tear down of the shed was fine, and the company even threw out some extra items into the dumpster. However, our wheelbarrow was removed from our property. After we asked about it, the company returned it.

The estate sale didn't generate any profit after we took into account the clean out. We were left with many items still dispose of. Alot of this were large items. Some were small collectibles. We were later able to sell the collectibles with much success at a garage sale. The company advertised on estatesales.net and facebook. The photos of the items were not very detailed, clear, and did not accurately represent the scope of what was for sale. Missing from the photos were high value items like cameras, lladros out of their boxes, and the contents of a china closet.

After the sale, the company helped us remove the larger items that were left over. These included an organ, formal dining room set, grandfather clock and recliner chair. It is unclear who took these items and if there was monetary amounts exchanged, as this occurred when we were not home.

For the clean out, the company did their best to remove our items. Apparently they are not supposed to remove anything that wasn't for sale, but they did help us by throwing old carpets and other large items into the dumpster. We had so much to dispose of, that we needed another dumpster. We engaged them for a second dumpster.

For the second clean out, the company was able to dispose of our pool table from the basement, which was a major undertaking. However, after this clean out, we noticed that some items were missing from our basement. We had a shop vac, painting supplies and an inflatable raft in a room in the basement marked do not enter. These items were missing from the room we had set aside for our personal "do not touch" items.

I asked the owner of the company if anyone could have mistakenly taken items and he said no one was in the room. I repeatedly asked him to check with his crew and he did not ever say he would check with them about our missing items.

For the shop vac, at first he said I didn’t see the shop vac, but your sister said that anything on the side of the garage up for grabs for anybody that want anything and that was probably one of the things on the side that people that were there took to get rid of. I told him that we would not keep it in the garage as we intended to keep it. Later he said I’m not sure who took that one, but when we walked up that day, it was sitting up in the garage the right side of the garage. I am confused by these conflicting statements since at first he said he never saw the shop vac. Then he said someone took it, but he did not offer to bring it back after I asked him to make this right.

In general we got the house cleared out, but these annoyances make me not recommend this company.