Cole Ford
We assist with life's transitions. Family and estate planning and liquidation
I run Ford Brothers Trading Company, where we handle estate sales, auctions, and liquidation services across Wisconsin and Northern Illinois. I help families navigate property transitions—from downsizing and cleanouts to property valuations and coordinating real estate sales.
Services
A focused one-on-one session for people facing a major household or property transition. We’ll sort through the moving pieces, identify priorities, and build a practical next-step plan for downsizing, inherited property, estate cleanouts, moving, home-sale preparation, or major life changes. My background in construction, auctions, resale, valuation and logistics helps us solve the whole problem, not just one piece of it.
Have something you found during a move, cleanout, estate, inheritance or downsizing project and want to know whether it deserves a closer look? Send clear photos, dimensions, markings, signatures, labels, condition information and anything you know about where it came from. I’ll research and assess what it appears to be, give you a realistic sense of its resale potential, and suggest the most appropriate next step. This is an informed market-value assessment, not a certified appraisal.
Facing a major household or property transition and not sure where to start? Send me the situation, photos, timeline, and any specific concerns. I’ll review it and send you a personalized video response with practical next steps. This can include downsizing, inherited property, estate cleanouts, moving, preparing a home for sale, deciding what to keep, sell, donate or dispose of, coordinating repairs, valuing unusual items, and figuring out the order everything should happen in. My background in
