If you’re a sucker for yard sales, you won’t want to miss the four-day marathon later this month at tech millionaire Scott Jones’s sprawling home in Carmel, Indiana.
Mr. Jones, 56, who became a multimillionaire not long after founding Boston Technology at the age of 25, is unloading pretty much all of the stuff he collected while living in his 24,424-square-foot mansion—which is also for sale—in Carmel, according to the Indianapolis Star.
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That includes everything from a $100,000 Steinway grand piano to a dead-on replica of a Tyrannosaurus Rex skull for $10,000 to a half-empty bottle of Windex for 50 cents.
It all must go–and it’s not an auction, but rather a full-throated, old-fashioned yard sale, with a few modern high-tech touches like bar codes on all the merchandise.
You can buy his house, too, if you like. The seven-bedroom house on West 116th Street is listed for $4.995 million with Nancy Mutchmore of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Indiana Realty.
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The 26-room mansion, built in 1938 to resemble an English Country manor, has seven full bathrooms and seven partial bathrooms. It sits on 24 acres.
The house has lots of unusual features, including an indoor treehouse, a 25-foot-long saltwater aquarium, six fireplaces and a three-story great room with a 35-foot handpainted ceiling and towering stone fireplace, Ms. Mutchmore said.
"He added 15,000 square feet to the house," she said. "He kept the finishes and details similar to the original house. It blends so well."
"There is also a mahogany slide that took 18 months to build," she said. "It was handcrafted by an Indiana artisan."
"The house is in wonderful condition," Ms. Mutchmore said. "It’s a rare find in Indiana, to have an estate that’s historic in nature yet with all of the modern technology you’d want."
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Mr. Jones, who could not be immediately reached for comment, has been living mostly in Hawaii for the past two years and has decided that now’s the time to unload the Carmel house's furnishings, according to the Star. He kept the house occupied by running a computer coding school out of the great room and large home theater and renting bedrooms on Airbnb.
The sale, which is being managed by Aether Estate Sales Co., runs Sept. 14-17 at the house.
Some of the other items for sale that Mr. Jones collected from around the world include antiques, artwork, a suit of armor, a large model of a sailing ship and a telescope so big it takes three people to move, according to the Star.
At 25, while living in Boston in 1986, he invented the technology that made voicemail practical, according to the Indiana paper. He sold it for $50 million and then started several other tech businesses.
Mr. Jones returned to Carmel in the 1990s and was one of the key voices lobbying for Indiana's move to daylight-saving time, according to the Star