Heritage House Sales

Heritage House Sales Since 1987, Heritage House Sales has been liquidating the contents of local homes and businesses.

Yes, you can! If you have an old HEARING AID that you don’t need, DONATE it to Heritage House Sales at any estate sale a...
09/01/2026

Yes, you can!
If you have an old HEARING AID that you don’t need, DONATE it to Heritage House Sales at any estate sale and get a 10% off any item coupon.
These hearing aids will be given free to needy folks in the Philippines. The need there is great, and you can help give someone the gift of hearing!

THANK YOU for following HERITAGE HOUSE SALES. And thank you for your 5-star reviews. These reviews help us to have a hig...
08/23/2026

THANK YOU for following HERITAGE HOUSE SALES. And thank you for your 5-star reviews. These reviews help us to have a higher social media ranking which means that we are able to get more wonderful estate sales for you to attend. If you have never posted a review, please consider doing so. They are appreciated more than you know.

I respect folks who come to me personally with their complaints, concerns, and/or suggestions. My name is Carolyn Rivaldi; (yes, we have 2 OTHER Carolyns who work with us—confusing!). But I am the team leader and my phone number is : (805)878-1978.
Feel free to text or call me with your feedback.

I have stepped back from staying through all hours of the estate sale as I have trained a wonderful cashier—Carolyn Piper. And the rest of our team is just as amazing! My wonderful team has allowed me the much-needed time to care for my ailing husband, attend church, and scout out and prepare more estate sales.

We always have at least one person in the estate sale house to price the few unpriced items. However, it has come to my attention that some customers are unaware of this service. So I have ordered GREEN vests for those who can price at a particular sale. The vests say: ‘Need a price?’ The traditional blue vests indicate a staffer who does not feel comfortable pricing. Some staff CHOOSE to not learn this difficult skill.

Customers sometimes ask for prices even though we post PRICING GUIDELINES near the items. Please look for and read the signs; they are there for your convenience.

There have been complaints about the wait time to get in and the crowded conditions. Yes, there are lines if you come during the first hours of the first day. We are grateful that we have a large following. And we are sorry that you have to wait. But please understand that we cannot immediately let in everyone. It is unsafe to have a huge number of customers in the house at once. And we can not service all those people. We use walkie-talkies so that the staff inside can communicate with the staff outside when it is safe for more customers to enter. If you don’t like crowds and/or don’t want to wait, please don’t come during the first hours of the first day. You won’t miss out on “all the good stuff”. I rarely take small sales; the homes are usually packed with great stuff.

To minimize the wait time for customers to check out at the cash register, I will use Carolyn Piper or Jim as a SECOND cashier during the first hours of the first day. I wish that I could employ 2 cashiers throughout the estate sale, but I cannot afford this strategy without raising prices. And I am committed to keeping prices low.

As stated previously, we have this posted policy: if you remove an item from its original location on the sales floor and “hold” it, we expect you to buy it. Not put it back. This could mean the loss of a sale (or a full-priced sale).

Someone recently said that we pre-sell items pictured in our posts. This is categorically UNTRUE! Sometimes our clients—the people who hire us to do their estate sale—take items without our knowledge and consent (in violation of their contract). I have no control over this.

As you should know, we DO pre-sell only those items that are advertised as “Buy it Now”. And when those sell, we almost immediately remove the photo.

If you read this far, I thank you. 💜
Jim, Carolyn, and the
HERITAGE HOUSE SALES team

It is happening everywhere. And it is happening right here in our own backyard. Right here in Orcutt. Retail is dying. A...
08/20/2026

It is happening everywhere. And it is happening right here in our own backyard. Right here in Orcutt. Retail is dying. And we are killing it. Every time we don’t shop local first. Every time we conveniently pick up our phone to order a gift or something for ourselves, our home, our workplace. We order online because it is EASY when we COULD have found and bought locally.

Talking with my friend, Wendy Steller, (who owns Steller Boutique and Deja Vu Antique Mall in Orcutt), I learned yesterday that Deasee’s boutique has closed. And that Company’s Coming and Victorian Stained Glassworks may be closing.

Why should we care? Because online platforms, like Amazon, do NOT support us. They do not pay local taxes which support our local community. When the local sales taxes shrink, so do our local services. Further, the PEOPLE that run these businesses support our community! When is the last time that Amazon donated to your child’s baseball team? When did Amazon support your local charity, church, or club? Never!

Beyond that, many of us, including me, ENJOY the shopping activity as a social and family time spent together. I have so many wonderful memories of taking my once-young daughter, Bella, (and her friends) shopping! We would make a day of it! What fun we had! Walking around from shop to shop, laughing, finding treasures. You can’t do what we did together if you only shop online! Online shopping is usually a SOLITARY activity, not a social one.

When you shop local you also get the benefit of seeing and feeling the prospective product. Have you ever ordered online only to be disappointed when you opened the package to see what you ACTUALLY got??

Don’t get me wrong. There is a time and a place for online shopping. Some things cannot be found locally. All I am saying is this:
Please SHOP LOCAL FIRST. Before we—you and me—kill what is left of the shrinking retail businesses.

By the way, THANK YOU to the local community for supporting my retail service business: HERITAGE HOUSE SALES. We have been conducting estate sales and liquidating personal property for the last 40 years and we have seen our business grow thanks to your loyal support.

Thank you for reading this. I want to give a shout-out to all the hard-working local business folks—including Mark (Steller’s Cellars) and Wendy Steller. They deserve our support and our patronage.

First, let me say that I am SORRY that I need to even say these things. Chances are that, if you are reading this, you d...
08/15/2026

First, let me say that I am SORRY that I need to even say these things. Chances are that, if you are reading this, you don’t need to read this!
Also, let me assure you that 99% of my customers are the nicest, most considerate people that you will ever meet! However, as of late, the 1% have been causing headaches at the estate sales and so I feel compelled to state the obvious:

😄😄😄If you place item(s) in the HOLD/SOLD area or carry them around, you are expected to BUY them. If you are just “thinking about buying them”, please don’t remove them from the sales floor. And please EXAMINE them for damage before removing them. For example, today—during the busiest time of the sale on the first day of the sale—a woman made a huge pile behind me and asked me to hold the items for her. At least 1 1/2 hours later, I saw her putting items back—everything had a price. She refused to buy all items despite the fact that I have posted warning statements explaining my policy. So, I enforced the stated policy: buy it all or buy nothing. Bottom line, it is not fair to my client, to other customers, and to me to lose sales because people use the “hold” area as a “maybe I will buy” area. Bear in mind that we have only a few days to empty an entire house. So, if you put an item back, it might not be sold.

Thank you for your consideration and understanding.

Carolyn 💜

UPDATE:After 14 days without a working phone due to Verizon’s incompetence, I finally have a replacement phone. So you c...
07/14/2026

UPDATE:
After 14 days without a working phone due to Verizon’s incompetence, I finally have a replacement phone. So you can resume contacting me at:
(805)878-1978
Thank you for your patience.

II have brought Jim home from the hospital in Seattle. I am so grateful that he is alive and making improvements.

Thank you to my wonderful teammates who kept things moving in my absence! Thank you, loyal followers, for your kind words and support during one of the darkest moments in my life.

Thanks,
Carolyn Rivaldi
Heritage House Sales
(805)878-1978

Happy 4th of July! I know our country isn’t perfect, but we love it anyway!! I have traveled places as a college student...
07/04/2026

Happy 4th of July! I know our country isn’t perfect, but we love it anyway!! I have traveled places as a college student under the protection of the United Nations, and I have seen what a lack of freedoms looks like. I appreciate the freedoms that our country affords.
Anyway, we are taking a rare day off to celebrate with our family!
Thank you for being part of the Heritage House Sales family! Have a safe and relaxing holiday! Hope to see you on the 11th and 12th at 715 East Vickie in Santa Maria (East Donovan to North College).
Carolyn

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Office: 239 Union Avenue
Orcutt, CA
93455

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+18058781978

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