In the saddest times, Carl McQueary and the Estate Services team are there to help.
Estate Services of Austin owner and founder Carl McQueary with his own personal collection of odds and ends
At the same time, the sale itself has to be fun. Before any house clearance starts, he'll head outside to talk to the people at the head of the line. And a line there will be. McQueary has a following: quite literally. He has his mailing list, and he has his Instagram account where, a few days before a sale, he'll often stream one of his Coffee Talks With Carl, a combination of sales pitch and porch philosophizing.
You might think that McQueary's own home would be a storage facility of the strange and fascinating, piled with ephemera and random artifacts gathered from years of seeing the best and the finest of what homes and lives have to offer. Instead, it's a refined and curated space, the walls adorned with original art, bought directly from local artists, most of them UT-Austin faculty. Buying from his own sales is a no-no – too complicated, too tempting.
Back up. How did the urbane, soft-spoken art historian end up in Perryton, pop. 8,802? In 1985 he was 21 and studying museum science at West Texas State University when a friend, Jimmy Reid, invited him to his grandfather's farm for a vintage heavy engineering show."His grandfather said, 'You should come run our museum,' and I'm like, 'OK.
His placid, gentle tone may seem ill-suited for the frenzy that each sale brings with it. Last year, McQueary oversaw 41 estate liquidations, and he expects that number to rise this year. Some are booked months in advance, some a few weeks, but all work to the same simple timeline."You have two days, sometimes three, to liquidate a life's possessions," he said."From a set of spoons to a samurai sword to used underwear – everything.
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