Most hotels refurnish on a schedule the brand sets, often called a property improvement plan, or after a sale or a rebrand. The work runs to a hard date. Rooms come out of inventory floor by floor, and everything in them has to be gone before the contractor arrives. That deadline is why the whole contents usually go to one liquidator in one deal.
For guest rooms, that is the right call. Two hundred identical nightstands sell best as a block to buyers furnishing rentals, dorms or other hotels, and a liquidator is set up for exactly that. We do not compete for it. At the walkthrough we will say which pieces belong with a bulk buyer, and leave them to whoever you already use.
The lobby, the restaurant, the bar and the ballroom are different. A chandelier, a pair of lounge chairs, a carved reception desk, a run of framed prints from the guest corridors: each has a buyer who will pay for it on its own, often a designer, a restaurant owner, or someone who was married under that chandelier. We photograph and measure each piece, price it against completed sales, list it where those buyers look and handle every enquiry.
A hotel's name helps sell its pieces. It is also a trademark. We use the hotel's name in a listing only with the owner's written agreement, never suggest that a brand endorsed the sale, and otherwise describe a piece by its city and era.
Nothing has to leave until it sells. Buyers pay in full before collection and pick up in windows your operations team sets, around guests, events and the construction calendar. If rooms must be empty sooner than pieces can sell, they can wait in your warehouse or in our storage. We work across North Carolina from Charlotte: the Charlotte region, the Triangle, the Triad and Asheville, and the rest of the state by arrangement.
What the family receives.
- ✓A free walkthrough of the public spaces, back-of-house storage and anything already pulled
- ✓A straight answer on what sells better piece by piece and what belongs with a bulk liquidator
- ✓A written quote before any work starts
- ✓Every piece photographed, measured and catalogued where it is
- ✓Pickups scheduled around guests, events and the construction calendar
- ✓Payment confirmed before anything leaves the property
- ✓An itemised sale record for the fixed-asset ledger: what sold, when, and for how much
Why VaultXL.
We don't want the guest rooms
We take the pieces that sell better one at a time and leave the identical room furniture to bulk buyers, so you are not forced into one deal for everything.
Built around a hard date
We work back from your room turnover schedule and tell you early what can realistically sell before each floor has to be clear.
The name, only with permission
Provenance sells, but a hotel's name is the owner's to give. Without written agreement a listing says where and when, not which hotel.
Records your accountants can use
Every sale is itemised by piece, date and price, which is what an owner needs to write disposed assets off the books.
Where we serve.
Charlotte · Uptown · SouthPark · Raleigh · Durham · Chapel Hill · Greensboro · Winston-Salem · High Point · Asheville · Blowing Rock · Wilmington · the rest of North Carolina by arrangement
Start with a walkthrough.
Two hours in your home. No estimate in the room — we send a written plan within forty-eight hours.
Frequently asked.
No, and we will tell you why. Matching guest-room furniture sells best as a block to a liquidator. We sell the pieces worth more on their own: lighting, lobby and bar furniture, art, mirrors and signage. We can work alongside the liquidator you already use.
Only with the owner's written agreement. A brand name is a trademark, so without that agreement we describe a piece by its city and era, such as a chandelier from a 1920s Charlotte hotel ballroom.
Chandeliers and decorative lighting, lobby seating, large mirrors, bar and restaurant furniture, signage, and reception desks or millwork that can come out whole. Art bought for hotels is often decorative prints rather than originals; we will tell you which is which before anything is priced.
We agree that in writing at the start. Hotels are often owned by one company and run by another, so the agreement names who approves prices, who signs off on each sale and who is paid.
No. They can stay in place, go to your warehouse or go into our storage. Most hotels keep them on site until the floor they are on is needed.
Statewide, from our base in Charlotte. We regularly cover the Charlotte region, the Triangle, the Triad and Asheville, and the rest of the state by arrangement, with travel included in the written quote.
Every project is quoted in writing after a free walkthrough: a non-refundable setup fee set in your quote, and 15% of what sells after marketplace fees. The owner keeps 85%.