Green and Cate Inc
About Green and Cate Inc
We understand that you have a number of options when choosing an Estate Sale Company and our ultimate mission is to educate people so they can make the best and most informed decisions for their families. Our experienced team can help you determine whether its best to host an onsite sale or have us host the sale at our Warehouse showroom, or seek a full buy-out of the home's contents. Every situation is unique and we endeavor to be empathetic and helpful in what is usually a difficult emotional process.
We offer onsite Estate Sales, Premier Buy Out Services (Quickest Liquidation Option), Salvage Services and VIP Consignment Options.
We welcome every opportunity to serve our clients with a positive attitude , utmost professionalism and caring respect in every phase from staging and hosting through to the final clean out of unsold items.
Our "Broom Clean" guarantee ensures our clients can rely on a consistent and satisfying result.
We offer Free Consultations and Free Appraisals. In almost all cases, we don't require any out of pocket expenses from our clients and are instead compensated by profit sharing on the proceeds of the sale. This means our success is predicated solely on how well we do for our customers. Our over 25 years of combined experience in the secondary goods market makes us uniquely qualified to bring you top dollar for your items from precious metals to rare antiques to automobiles to tools and everyday household items. The ultimate goal of an onsite sale is to empty the house and prepare it for sale or transfer. We deeply empathize with the emotional attachment that comes with many belongings and our growing list of satisfied clients will attest to the warm and loving attitude we bring to every sale. This ensures your relative's items find a loving new home.
As a full-service Estate Sale company, we typically don't charge additional fees for clean-outs after the sale as we take pride in making sure the left over items find a good home through our vast donation network. We think its equally important to spend the extra time recycling unsold items that are not suitable for donation. We endeavor to become the most environmentally responsible estate sale company in the county.
In addition to our pricing advice (we have a number of websites that we utilize for research) we can also provide a number of more sensible liquidation options for certain antiques and valuables.
We also specialize in helping remove unwanted stored items from attics & basements, foreclosed properties, estates, evictions and more. In most cases, After seeing the property, we will submit a written bid to you at no cost or obligation. Go Local and save.
David and Selena Green met in 2018 and married on August 8th, 2020. Selena, and now David, have worked the last 4 1/2 years in estate liquidation and have hosted over 100 onsite and offsite Estate Sales in Northern California.
Their passion in estate liquidation is to help preserve history by saving items from being lost or thrown away. There are stories in every item in a home and we want to learn those from our clients and share those with out customers. This is a business where stories matter. We sometimes refer to the buying side from our customers as a “soulful shopping experience.”
Selena Cate Green has spent over 3 decades honing her skills through antique curating, thrifting, merchandising, creative writing and interior design. She grew up on an olive farm in the north valley of California.
Her father, a self made inventor, was a great inspiration for her as she watched him build things for the farm from cast off junk from the local landfill. She would wake up at 5 am to travel with him to a car swap meet where he would search for parts for his Ford Model T that he was building from the ground up. Secondhand shopping is in her blood. She has been an entrepreneur since she was 8 years of age when she had her own “Do It All Shop” selling wares and services to her encouraging parents.
She loved the excitement of treasure hunting from an early age. In her late 20’s she spent half of a decade in Europe where she began to work on furniture design and restoration. She traveled throughout Europe shopping at Flea Markets and Antique stores in search of furniture to restore. She is an avid researcher and rarely leaves any stone unturned when staging and preparing for an estate sale. If she can’t figure out what something is, she turns to online experts from all over the globe and local experts for assistance until she can figure it out.
David Green brings many specialities to this business. He spent quite a few years in the Bay Area working as a photographer and took photos all over the west coast of America. Quite a few of these are on display in our showroom in Sebastopol. He has a lot of experience selling cameras and equipment in a shop on Market Street in San Francisco. He also has sold at Flea Markets and Camera Shows for over 4 decades. His favorite area of expertise though is in motorcycles and vintage automobiles.
When they aren't liquidating homes they are restoring their 1925 Arts & Crafts Bungalow and a vintage chicken hatchery barn.
Service areas
Based out of Sebastopol, CA also serving areas near Berkeley , CA , Concord , CA , Hayward , CA , Mill Valley , CA , Novato , CA , Richmond , CA , San Francisco , CA , San Leandro , CA , Sebastopol , CA , Ukiah , CA , Vallejo , CA and Walnut Creek , CA
Services Offered
- In-person Estate Sales
- Online Auctions
- Appraisal Services
- Off-site Sales
- Clean-out Services
Vintage Sears Roebuck bicycles made in Austria boasted unique design elements that set them apart from other bikes of their time. From distinctive frame shapes to intricate details on the handlebars, these bikes exuded a charm that captivated riders ...
Vintage Yellow Fire Hydrant with a delightful worn patina.
Gorgeous Antique Secretary Cabinet. The top measures 68 inches and the bottom 28 inches. It measures 48 inches across the bottom and measures 18 inches deep. The top measures 11 1/2 inches deep. It is in good condition. The glass is very old and wavy...
Antique Victorian Wicker Plant Stand. It is wicker with plaster type flowers. It measures just under 36 inches and in our plant stand measures 10 inches in diameter. Some patina with age.  Asking $75. We are located near downtown Graton. 
Fabulous Vintage Metal Patio Chairs and Table Set. Nice patina and perfect for you California garden and patio. Asking $195 for the set. Located in downtown Graton near Sebastopol.
Theodore Alexander Mahogany Dining Table and 8 Ladder Back Chairs, 2 Arm Chairs. Average retail price for the dining table alone is around $5000. This came out of a high end home in Sebastopol. The base is iron and the wood is mahogany. In the photo ...
Antique German A. Krauss Grandfather Clock from Stuttgart. We had it repaired in the last month for a total of $195. It was cleaned. oiled, adjusted, balanced. regulated, etc. and is now keeping time perfectly. It’s a stunning grandfather clock and i...
A beautiful Lady Mannequin Head Bust from the 1930's / 1940's Department Store Counter Display. Her ears are pierced to display earrings. She's in very good condition.
Sebastopol Estate Sale - Antique Quilts - Cast Iron Bird Cages - Ice Cream Table / Chairs Set
Green and Cate IncSebastopol Estate Sale - We have some fabulous Large Bird Cages, an Ice Cream Table and Chair Set with copper and wood, Handmade Antique Quilts and much more. This is a 3 day sale. Our hours are 9am-4pm each day. 100 Brown Street, Sebastopol. 50+ ...
Sebastopol Online Estate Auction We are hosting a small collection of items from Marin County and Sonoma County Estates. This auction will run from Monday April 1st at 9am through to Wednesday April 3rd at 7pm. This auction will feature a Hard Cl...
We are hosting two sales this week. The first is our small but sweet online auction which ends on Thursday March 21st. The second is our Warehouse Estate Sale on Brown Street in Downtown Sebastopol. This sale we have some lovely California Pottery, l...
Sebastopol Online Estate Auction We are hosting a small collection of items from both Marin County and Sonoma County Estates. This auction will run from Tuesday March 19th - Thursday March 21st. This auction feature Hard Close which means the cl...
We've had a busy week preparing for our online auction and setting up our first annual Clearance Sale at our Sebastopol Showroom. It is a combination sale. Our current auction (link here) lots will begin to close on Thursday starting at 7pm. Pick up ...
We are excited to be showcasing a wonderful collection from both Marin County and Sebastopol. This auction includes items from Fairfax, San Rafael and Sebastopol. This auction will run from January 29th - February 1st. Auction feature Hard Close wh...
This is a 2 day sale. Our hours are 9am-4pm each day. We will be open SATURDAY and SUNDAY only. This is a roll over of our previous sale as well as new items that we have restocked in the last few days. We have more vintage Christmas ornaments, hol...
Time Capsule homes are a favorite of ours. Uncovering items that are decades old and preserved is why we love what we do. This is a home full of Vintage, Retro and Historic items. The family has lived here for many decades and owned a real estate com...
Happy Thanksgiving! The warehouse is overflowing with everything Christmas and Vintage California Pottery. It seems like a perfection combination with the lovely pastel colors of the pottery mixed in with the array of vintage ornaments. 32 New Pho...
We've had such a beautiful, warm Autumn and before the cold days settle in Sonoma County, we thought we'd do a 2 day sale at our Warehouse in downtown Sebastopol. The items that we have just brought in came from the luxurious property off of the 116 ...
We are excited to be back in our warehouse on October 20th, 21st and 22nd for a 3 day Estate Sale. Our sale will have many items from our recent buyout here in Sebastopol. It will feature concrete figurines for the garden, high end kitchen ware, vint...
This week we are featuring a lifetime collection of Bakelite Flatware and Utensils, Vintage Clothing, Vintage Hats and Furniture. The house is a sweet Victorian with towering trees surrounding it, once again in the JC neighborhood of Santa Rosa. We ...
This weekend we are hosting a small Warehouse Estate Sale in Santa Rosa to help out our clients. This warehouse is across the street from King's Nursery near the McDonald Neighborhood. Our clients have moved to Tennessee and need to liquidate the con...
We will be in Sebastopol this weekend for a 3 day sale at our showroom on Brown Street. We have a lot of fun unique items including Steiff Hedgehogs, Vaseline Glass, Vintage Bicycles, 1950's Picnic Baskets (3), Contemporary Furniture and much more. W...
We are running 2 Estate Sales this weekend. The first is this hillside time capsule estate sale tucked away in the redwood lined roads of Cazadero in Sonoma County. This sale is a challenging one as much of the items are on a steep hillside. We wil...
We are opening our doors this Saturday from 9am - 4pm in downtown Sebastopol. This is a pop-up sale with both new inventory and rollover items. We have 2 sales this weekend so please check out our other ad for our Digger Estate Sale in Cazadero. Mo...
Welcome June and hopefully warmer days will stay so that it can feel like summer has arrived. We have a beautiful 1935 Ford Deluxe Roadster, a perfect example of an open air design. It is powered by a Flathead V-8 Original Motor, manual brakes, runs ...
Sunday Only Estate Sale - Sebastopol - 1953 Chevrolet Panel Wagon - Garden - Barn Finds
Green and Cate IncWe are opening our doors this Sunday from 10am - 4pm in downtown Sebastopol. Note that we are opening an hour later than normal. If you do come early, items outside will be available to purchase early. We have been emptying a hillside home in Cazad...
This week the weather is warm and we are finally able to have our annual Garden, Patio and (this year) Pottery Estate Sale in downtown Sebastopol. It's a very busy weekend in our sweet town with the celebration of the Apple Blossom celebrations inclu...
We have decided to push our annual garden sale until late April since this weather has been rather wet and cold. We are having a small 2 day sale THIS weekend that starts on SATURDAY March 25th and ends on Sunday the 26th. This week's sale will inc...
This week we have estates that include items from a Petaluma Estate and a Marin County Estate. We have a lovely collection of 1930's and 1940's California decor including pottery. We have about 25 more boxes to unearth during the next few sales from...
Welcome to our first sale of 2023. We start the year with a sale at our showroom in downtown Sebastopol. We have a new estate from Petaluma with a gentleman loved Beer Bottles, Openers, Mugs + Steins, Coasters and Advertising. He also had a garage ...
We welcome you to our last sale of 2022. What a banner year it has been. Thank you for your kind support in coming and shopping at our sales. We appreciate every one of you. We are opening on December 17th for just one day in case anyone wants to do ...
Welcome December! We finish the year with some amazing buyouts and an announcement that we have begun to move into an additional warehouse in Graton in order to process more estates and include monthly auctions. We look forward to sharing more infor...
It's that fabulous time of the year where we bring out all of the lifetime collections of Christmas boxes that we accumulated over the year. We have high end ornaments from a multi-million dollar home in the Petaluma Hills, a vintage collection from ...
We are happy to be back in the showroom after being away for 2 months. We are excited to announce that we have 3 showroom sales leading up to Christmas. We have 10 estates and every barn, container, trailer and garage is full to the brim. This month ...
We are honored to be hosting this estate sale in the home where Sebastopol's own Rosemary Gladstar (of Rosemary's Garden) was raised. This is her parent's home and the estate includes a few generations of items. This is a time capsule estate sale. Yo...
After two months of being on the road hosting onsite estate sales, we are back in our showroom in downtown Sebastopol for our upcoming Estate Sale. The showroom is absolutely packed with items from a Barn in Rural Sebastopol, fab Mid Century Modern i...
This weekend we are in the warm and beautiful Del Webb Neighborhood in Cloverdale. Our estate sale begins this Friday July 8th at 9am. This family originally lived in Marin County. Our client's mother was a master Needlepoint artist and the home is ...
This is a true time capsule estate sale of multiple generations with lots of Healdsburg and Sonoma County History. We are just 20 minutes North of Santa Rosa in lovely and warm Healdsburg, California. Our estate sale begins this Friday June 24th at...
Santa Rosa Collector Downsizing Estate Sale - Lionel Trains - Victorian Gardening - Remote Control Cars
Green and Cate IncWe are in the beautiful hills of Santa Rosa above the Grace Tract near the Flamingo Hotel in Sonoma County, We are hosting a downsizing sale for clients that we hosted a sale for a few years ago, across the street from the Antique Society. It was ama...
We are so happy to be back in our showroom in downtown Sebastopol for our upcoming Estate Sale. We have some fun items from a Barn in Rural Petaluma, fabulous Mid Century Modern items from a home in Petaluma, some lovely furniture from a high-end Hea...
We are once again in our hometown of Sebastopol, California for our next estate sale that begins Friday February 25th at 9am. This week we are on the other side of town off of Mill Station Road on a beautiful estate of a hobby vineyard. This estate i...
We are in our sweet town of Sebastopol for our next estate sale that begins Saturday February 12th at 9am. This 2 day sale is in a beautiful Victorian home in a rural setting. This sale includes home, garage and patio. We are featuring a very cool ...
Thank you everyone who came to our estate sale last weekend. Both in our showroom and those that bid in our auction. We had our most successful Showroom sale to date! We appreciate you all for helping us complete the year with a lovely finish. We h...
Green and Cate Online Auction is Live. Register to bid, see the items this weekend in our showroom and pick up your items on Monday and Tuesday. If you need assistance with bidding please call us. 707-771-8174. This online auction will feature item...
Our yearly Holiday Christmas Estate Sale is here and we are celebrating by making it a Showroom shopping experience combined with a small online auction through estate sales.org. Please be sure to check out our Auction as well.. All items will be ava...
We have a very interesting sale this weekend. We have the second part of the Nancy Ince estate. Nancy is granddaughter of Thomas H Ince, a Hollywood film actor, producer and director from the 1920’s and Elinor Ince, an actress. She also was wife to D...
This sale is SATURDAY and SUNDAY only. This is a CASH ONLY sale. Bring your gloves and boxes to our Graton digger sale. There are so many boxes to dig through. We need your help with emptying this home to prepare it to go on the market. It's a some...
This sale is Part 3 (of 3) of the the Rohnert Park estate that is one of the most fascinating estates that we have worked with. The gentleman loved antiques and collectibles. His collection includes many reproduction decorator pieces mixed in with an...
This sale is Part 2 (of 3) of the the Rohnert Park estate that is one of the most fascinating estates that we have worked with. The gentleman loved antiques and collectibles. His collection includes both antique and reproduction decorator pieces. Thi...
After a well deserved break in Palm Springs where we swam every day and relaxed, we arrived home with renewed energy and passion for this amazing work we do. This is a seven days a week job and overall every single day is interesting, educational and...
David Pleydell-Bouverie Estate Auction - Benefiting Audubon Canyon Ranch - Sebastopol
Green and Cate IncIt is with great honor to announce that we will be hosting an off-site estate sale of belongings from David Pleydell-Bouverie, famed English architect and former owner of the Bouverie Preserve at our showroom in downtown Sebastopol. This will be a 4-...
Sebastopol Off-Site Estate Sale of David Pleydell-Bouverie - Fine Furniture - Art - 18th Century
Green and Cate IncWe are honored to welcome you to our Off-Site Estate Sale for the belongings of David Pleydell-Bouverie, famed English architect and former owner of the Bouverie Preserve in Glen Ellen. The estate contents have been relocated to our showroom in downt...
We have been working at an estate buyout location in Sebastopol for over 45 days. It was one of our most challenging estates because so many items were involved and it was the estate of a local antique dealer that we had known personally. He was an i...
We are in Cotati, California for our next estate sale that begins Friday April 30th at 9am. This is a packed 3 day sale. This is a sale includes home, garage and a garden. This house is filled with an incredible book + DVD collection, a fabulous gard...
After working in the field at a few buyouts and and estate sales, we are finally back in our showroom in Sebastopol for a packed estate sale. The Sale is packed in the showroom and Nick will be in the back alley with garden furniture, project pieces,...
We are up in Healdsburg California for our next estate sale that begins Thursday March 25th at 9am. This is a 4 day sale. This is a sale includes home, garage and a garden. This house is packed with an incredible book collection, art by illustrator a...
We are in our home town of Sebastopol California for our next estate sale that begins Friday February 26th at 9am. This is a sale off of Bloomfield on a sweet property that includes a barn, home and a large outdoor space. Green and Cate specializes i...
We are so honored to be representing the family of Thomas H Ince, a Hollywood film actor, producer and director from the 1920’s. He was married to Elinor Ince, an actress. We are opening our doors on THURSDAY morning at 9am. This will be a 4 day sale...
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Well, if your situation is anything like mine then you definitely need to read this review.Jim L.
I left my wife and three young children on Christmas day and flew 3000 miles to California because my sister was dying. I was grateful to get there for her last few days but after she passed I was suddenly thrust into a situation I had never faced before. I was standing in a three-bedroom home stuffed with things. Some of them were clearly valuable others were not. Some I had no idea as to their worth. So I did what most of you are likely doing right now, I turned to the Internet and began researching estate sale companies. After interviewing several experts in this field it became obvious to me that Green and Cate were different from the rest. What set them apart, constitutes the entirety of this review. To put it in a sentence though, I would say that some folks stand apart from others by their willingness to be helpful Selena Cate are clearly dominated by the spirit of loving service. How do I know this? Well, here's what they did for me.
1. Green and Cate clearly recognized the difficulty of my situation and the grief I was experiencing. We all know that real empathy can be felt. I experienced it through their eye contact and communication style. They seemed more interested in me and my well-being than they did in getting the job. They demonstrated genuine sympathy and compassion throughout our entire relationship. This compassion even extended to the point where they humbly expressed confusion after I wrote them an email that failed to recognize a significant aspect of our contract. They could have pointed out my gross error easily but instead they asked me to clear up their confusion thus helping me realize my mistake on my own. Not once did I feel like I was just another job for them.
2. They offered a service that was far superior to their competitors. Not only do they have extensive experience, but they also have a network of experts for determining the value of many different objects. In my case, there was one object that was looked at by three independent experts before a price was put on it. Ironically, I ended up keeping it because it was so special and they had no problem with that.
3. Green and Cate are very negotiable on what can be excluded from the sale, are willing to set reserves on certain items, and even negotiated their commission down for certain high-value items. I was very impressed by this because no other company was willing to do that.
4. Green and Cate will tell you the truth even if it's hard to hear. In my case, learning that my sister's beloved mink and sable coats were almost worthless was a tough one given that I know she paid thousands for them.
5. Green and Cate are educators too. They helped me understand many of the difficulties associated with settling an estate. For example, I was worried about the tax repercussions associated with the income derived from the sale of all these items. Selena explain to me that this is usually in non-issue due to the fact of depreciation. For the most part items sold at estate sales are sold for significantly less than fair market value. Thus, if you document this, it is easy to demonstrate a capital loss for the IRS.
6. And speaking of documentation, Green and Cate offer a level of services that none of the others I interviewed do. First of all, they except credit cards. This is a huge advantage as people tend to want to impulse buy at these sales and often do not have enough cash in their pocket. Secondly, they use software that tracks every detail of the sale. At the end of each day I received an itemized report of items sold, for how much they sold, and whether or not they were discounted. I also received a final report at the end of the sale with all categories listed and every item accounted for. Remarkable!
7. Finally, it needs to be said that Green and Cate went the extra mile at every possible opportunity. They referred me experts for areas outside the scope of the sale, they offered to set up an alter in honor of my sister as part of the sale, they left the house clean and completely empty--ready to be sold. They donated many of the leftover items to charity. They sorted through rubbish and recycled what should be recycled. They took hazardous chemicals to the appropriate disposal facility on my behalf. They even delivered heavy furniture to people who purchased from the estate sale who did not have the means or ability to get it themselves, and they did this out of the goodness of their hearts.
I believe, as did my sister, that we live in a world where the kind and good people should prevail. So, if you're like my sister and I, please consider giving your business to Green and Cate and discover the power of the spirit of loving service and what it can do for you during the challenging times associated with end-of-life.
Selena helped me with an estate sale in Santa Rosa after my mom's death. They were professional, kind, & efficient with handling the prep, sale, & aftermath and left the house clean & neat. They also were kind enough to offer help on tangential issues, which was highly appreciated given my emotionally fragile state. I stayed away during the actual sale, but neighbors told me they were on top of things. I also appreciated their focus on being "green" by donating/disposing of sale leftovers in as environmentally-friendly a manner as possible. I would definitely recommend them to others.Gurjeev S
I was referred to Green and Cate after the sudden, unexpected death of my mother. My mother was a humble woman of limited means, but her home was full of a lifetime of sentimental treasures. My initial plan was to discard and/or donate seemingly worthless items. Green and Cate's advice was matchless: don't throw anything away. With this simple instruction, it relieved me of the burden of going through all of my mother’s things and making a value judgment. They took care of everything. The estate sale exceeded everyone's expectations. I was gratified to see items that sold that I was going to throw away. Green and Cate saw the value in things that I simply did not. Green and Cate have extensive knowledge of all kinds of subjects: jewelry, antiques, artwork, vehicles, tools. They used good judgment in arranging and staging all the items for sale. Their staff was professional, respectful and efficient. They were concerned with the security of the house and its belongings. Green and Cate were good at dealing with difficult people during the sale. They were honest, transparent, and prompt with respect to financial affairs. We enjoyed good communication. The house was left empty, with no loose ends left for me to resolve. They were understanding in an emotional time. Based on my experience with my mother's estate sale, I recommend Green and Cate without reservation.Amy S
"Pros: Very Knowledgeable and quickly researches to find age and appropriate pricing, many specific contacts with variety of expertise - art, automobiles, motorcycles, vintage items etc. Compassionate and understanding with family for estate sales. Cons: Sold a household product that needed to be installed. They quickly replaced the item. My experience with Green + Cate: Positive attitude, honesty and likability. That's what I felt from the very beginning and throughout my family's estate sale. They were available immediately for free consultation and quote, and able to schedule the sale within a week's time. My brother's garage was absolutely packed with great tools and his attic filled to the max with anything you could think of. Once the attic and garage were freed up for space, they laid out and grouped specific items and priced. Parts of the backyard were taped off so buyers wouldn't wander where they weren't welcome. Meanwhile the inside of the house was being sorted, tables brought in and items priced. Being very environmentally conscientious, they handled disposal of hazmat items, recyclables and items for donation. They following Wednesday at 5 p.m. the house was empty and broom swept clean. I am amazed at the amount of work they completed in 7 days. They both went out of their way to help me in any way they could, which happened to include a ride to the nearby airport. I am so happy I found Green & Cate for my brother's estate sale. They took a dreaded task, dug in and went to work, leaving my family feeling a large weight lifted from our shoulders. "Candace P.