Convicted payday loan mogul’s estate sale brings in hundreds of people
$2.1 million Leawood mansion opens doors for public sale
$2.1 million Leawood mansion opens doors for public sale
$2.1 million Leawood mansion opens doors for public sale
Sandra Kitchen sat down to rest in a sleek, ultra-modern chair in Scott Tucker’s former basement.
Kitchen had just walked shoulder to shoulder with people through the estate sale at Tucker’s former 4,500-square-foot Leawood mansion, and stopped to collect her thoughts.
“I just wonder what he’s thinking today,” Kitchen said. “Yeah, to have all these strangers walking around in your domain.”
Years earlier, Kitchen worked for $10 an hour for one of Tucker’s payday loan businesses, not knowing he was running illegal schemes to defraud thousands of customers of $1.3 billion dollars in usurious consumer loans.
Tucker was sentenced to more than 16 years in prison for his crimes.
“It’s a lot to inhale,” Kitchen said. “Because we never seen where he lived, we just heard. He lived a lifestyle of the rich and famous, and now I see what his lifestyle was like.”
The Internal Revenue Service seized Tucker’s property in Leawood’s Hallbrook Farms subdivision in March in its effort to regain a fraction of the $1.3 billion for customers defrauded by Tucker’s payday loan businesses.
The property was featured in Netflix documentary "Dirty Money." The same items that appeared in the show, appeared in the sale, organized by Brown Button Estate Sale Services.
“We’ve never had the notoriety, the media, the press like we do on this sale,” said Brown Button Estate Sale Services owner, Michael Fry. “The proceeds ultimately benefit the victims.”
Up for sale, high-end art, tables, couches, workout equipment, a replica Citation Jet and a replica Ferrari.
“Everything’s priced, everything’s tagged,” Fry said. “People come in over a three-day period, they can buy anything.”
With the 2017 national average estate sale bringing in more than $11,000, Fry estimated the sale could bring in four to six times that amount.
Meanwhile, Kitchen left after seeing the multimillion dollar house in person.
“He went all the way to the top,” she said. “He fell to the bottom.”
The estate sale continues Saturday and Sunday from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. at 2405 W. 114th St., Leawood, Kansas.