‘Biggest’ Hot Springs Village Estate Sale Offers 40 Truck Loads

A selection of items offered for sale at a Hot Springs Village estate sale.

An estate sale that started in Hot Springs Village last week is a logistical nightmare for the only child of a California couple.

Teapots & Treasures, the estate sale company operated by Nancy Spradlin and Dodie Kenney, advertised the sale at 38 Manso Way as “the biggest sale we have ever tackled.”

The home, 8,630 SF on one level, was built in 2018 by Craig A. Ehlenberger, a financial adviser, and his wife, Eloise, and is owned by their family trust.

Their son, Eric, said his parents had no connection to Arkansas before they started looking for a retirement location that was “not too cold, not too hot and with a good cost of living.”

After building the house, the couple made more than 30 trips from their home in coastal Rancho Palos Verdes to deliver trailers of possessions amassed during Craig Ehlenberger’s 40-plus years as an antiques hobbyist.

“Their hope was to pack everything up and move to Arkansas,” Eric Ehlenberger told Whispers.

But the move was never completed — “There’s still just as much stuff still here” in California, he said — and the new house has never been lived in.

Both his parents have been diagnosed with illnesses that prevent them from moving to Hot Springs Village, he said.

Moving dozens of trailers of furniture and collectibles back to California was not practical, so the Ehlenbergers hired Teapots & Treasures to sell most of what had already been delivered to Hot Springs Village.

The first part of the sale was held Thursday through Sunday, and more sales are planned in September and October.

The six-bedroom house on Lake Granada is also for sale. It’s listed for $1.3 million by Natalie Caldwell of Crye-Leike Realtors in Hot Springs.