Full-service estate sales run by Rita Stout and Angela Vaive — the Dynamic Duo. A dealer's eye, a neighbor's hands. Furniture, fine art, mid-century, country antiques, and everything tucked in the attic.
We do everything start to finish to take the stress off you.
Sales typically open Thursday or Friday at 10am, with discount day Saturday. Photos and addresses post on this page the week of the sale.
Three decades of mid-Michigan estates. We know the difference between a Baker and a Bassett, a Pyrex pattern that's worth $4 and one that's worth $400.
From signed period pieces to honest country primitives.
Baker · Henreden · Widdicomb · Drexel · Ethan Allen · Stanley · Pennsylvania House · HitchcockThe dinettes, the lamps, the wicker, the chrome.
Chromecraft · Lloyd Flanders · Telescope · Harris Scott leatherSigned pieces researched, attributed, and priced fairly.
Sally Swiss · William Benecke · Hyun BooYoo · DeLaBroye · Frederic Bon · Andre MarereThe pieces that built Michigan farmhouses.
Graniteware · oil lamps · dry sinks · hutches · Hitchcock chairsPattern knowledge that turns clutter into collector inventory.
Pink Pyrex · Pfaltzgraff · Duchess Tea · BB Byber potteryCrystal, brass, gilt, and the lamps grandma actually used.
Waterford · Italian Hollywood Regency · vintage oil & keroseneThe boxes most companies leave on the curb.
Postcards · cabinet cards · signed books (Edgar Guest) · autographs · sewingSpartan country and Christmas-cabinet certified.
MSU memorabilia · Dickens Village · collector plates · ornamentsFrom tinfoil and tools all the way to antique tractors. We sort it all.
Hand tools · power tools · shop equipment · farm implements · antique tractorsRita Stout and Angela Vaive — two Michigan veterans of the estate-sale, antique, and auction world. Combined, they've handled hundreds of homes from one end of mid-Michigan to the other.
Rita grew up in Williamston, Michigan — a small town where the antique shops outnumber the stoplights — and has spent decades working her way through mid-Michigan estates from her home in Lansing: pricing, researching, hauling, scrubbing, photographing, and ultimately selling the contents of homes that had been lived in for fifty, sixty, eighty years.
That line — borrowed from one of her own past sales — captures what she does best. The pieces other companies miss are the ones she finds. The sewing tin tucked behind the canning jars. The signed oil lamp at the back of the closet. The Hitchcock chair under three quilts in the basement.
Angela's passion for antiques started at the age of six, hunting for treasures with her grandparents. She graduated from auctioneer school, started her own auction business, and in 2009 was the first in the area to launch an online auction service.
Between Rita's eye for what other companies miss and Angela's auction-grade pricing knowledge, every estate gets the full treatment — researched, staged, photographed, and sold the way it should be.
The Dynamic Duo works with families across Lansing, East Lansing, Williamston, Okemos, Dimondale and the surrounding counties. Whether the estate is a 1950s ranch full of well-loved Pyrex or a country farmhouse with a published collection, the family and the contents get the same care.
Sales are posted on the Upcoming Sales section above and shared on the Facebook page. Phone is always the fastest way to reach them.
No upfront cost. No surprises. Rita's compensation comes out of sales proceeds — when the family wins, she wins.
A free, no-pressure visit to look at the estate, talk through your timeline, and answer questions.
We sort, clean, research, price, professionally photograph, and stage the entire home.
Two- or three-day public sale, fully staffed, with cash, Venmo, and CashApp accepted.
What sells, sells. What's left can be donated, hauled, or handed to your cleaner. You get a settlement check.
Best way to reach Rita and Angela is by phone. Leave a message if they don't pick up — they're probably in the middle of a sale.
Phone (517) 898-7778
Email [email protected]
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Service Area Williamston · Lansing · East Lansing · Okemos · Dimondale · Mason · Haslett · Grand Ledge — and beyond