About Us

Kurt Kiefer started commercial auctioneering services in 1980 in the South Florida markets of Ft. Lauderdale and Miami. Kurt has sold all three types of cemmercial equipment, inventory, real estate since. In the mid 1990s Kurt started to specialize in selling inventory of all types for businesses going out of business, for secured parties, for firms relocating and closing warehouses and manufacturers selling product lines and work in progress.

Today the firm deals mostly with retail and wholesale inventories anywhere in the United States. Be it 35 truckloads in Seattle or 2 truckloads in Baltimore or Orlando. Most of what we do is distributor or manufacturers stock located in warehouses anywhere in the country. We can sell the inventory for you as well as the rackin, material handling and office equipment too. Because we are commercial auctioneers we can sell as an on-line auction or a live open cry auction. We can do a priced liquidation for the general public, or a select mailing list. We can also buy the contents in total thus speeding up the liquidation time and saving the cost of doing an auction.

Many people don't understand, but the cost of conducting an auction can be substantial. Think that every item in the warehouse needs to be lotted for sale, the warehouse needs to be cleaned, trash disposed of. A marketing campaign needs to be designed, printed and mailed to get buyers to either an on-line auction or live auction. We need to staff the lotting , the inspection and the removal. Many auctions will cost 15% at a very low to over 25% of the auction value of the inventory. While an auction might bring the most gross cash, most sellers are more concerned with the NET cash in their pockets and it might be that another method of sale will recover more net cash to you.

The Kurt Kiefer team will review your situation and inventory and develop the best course of action and the best method of sale or purchase based upon our 30-plus years of experience. We frequently can work off your current inventory list to develop a plan. So much of the recovery today depends on the type of inventory and where it is located. To get the best bidders today it needs to be lotted in such a way buyers from all over the countyr can bid on it from their offices. Today auctions need to be brought to the buyers via on-line or simulcast auctions to maximize the recovery.

We can also secure an inventory anywhere in the country within a day to make sure the inventory doesn't walk off or shrink during the time of closing and liquidation. This can be a significant concern with high dollar inventories.

If important to you , we can arane disposal of the unwanted goods and broom sweep the premises and turn back a clean facility to the landloard. Because dump fees vary so much across the country we pass through dmp costs, but can fix the balance of the cleanup cost an work that into the overall proposal.

Let our 30 years of experience go to work for you.