About Us

HOTEL SURPLUS OUTLET is a very popular shopping resource with both consumers and wholesale buyers. In addition to serving the hotel and lodging industry, the outlet serves the needs of homeowners, landlords, and many Hollywood set decorators! We have a large client base of loyal customers who visit us often in their quest for the latest bargains.

HOTEL SURPLUS OUTLET has been widely covered by Los Angeles and National media, and has been a big hit among large group of Southern California bargain hunters. We have garnered a great deal of media coverage, and we have been featured in multiple listings in local bargain shopping guidebooks. The outlet has been featured by Alan Mendelson and Lisa Sigell of KCAL 9 television, along with Rick Romero of KABC's Eyewitness News. We have also been featured in stories which have appeared on KNBC, KCBS, KTTV and KCOP Television. Los Angeles radio stations KFWB and KRLA Radio have also featured our outlet in shopping related segments. We have also been featured in a major segment on the national morning show of the TELEMUNDO Television network.

HOTEL SURPLUS OUTLET has been featured in articles in the Wall Street Journal, L.A. Times, Los Angeles Business Journal, Daily Breeze, Daily News, Korea Times, La Opinion, and several other local and regional newspapers. We are also a popular, featured shopping resource at the popular BargainsLA.com and MoreDeals.com websites too!

Hotel Surplus Outlet has recently become a big hit with many HGTV viewers, and has been featured in multiple episodes of HGTV's "Design On A Dime" and other series. We are a recognized, "go-to" resource for many interior designers on a budget!

Our goods have appeared in numerous feature films and television shows. Set designers for television and motions pictures know that they can often find the perfect items at Hotel Surplus Outlet, at prices below the typical rental cost at prop houses and other furniture rental resources.


How Do We Get Such Great Stuff?

The tremendous competition in the hotel market generates a constant pressure on hotels to upgrade the furnishings in their properties to reflect the most current decorating trends. Therefore, a large number of hotels often liquidate relatively recent furniture on a cyclical basis. This creates wonderful opportunities for us to acquire large amounts of this fine furniture from a wide range of fine hotel properties. Our Service and Contracting Division, The Fenning Group, deals directly with these hotels and buys these inventories.

Because hotel furniture is built to commercial construction standards, it features higher levels of quality, workmanship and durability than most typical home furnishings. Most of this furniture is in great shape, but we get it because it does not fit the hotel's future needs. For example, the pressure to offer guests larger and larger television sets has forced luxury hotels to upsize their armoires. Likewise, the computer revolution has driven any hotels to provide larger workstation type desks for business travelers. The traditional hotel desk sets which they liquidate-----many in excellent condition, are especially well suited to homes, apartments and smaller hotel properties.

We are receiving constant incoming shipments of fine furniture and fixtures from some of North America's finest hotel properties. We offer items ranging from furniture, to fine art, accessories, and commercial hotel equipment. We also have a variety of televisions, bedding, bar refrigerators and other accessories, such as clock radios, hair dryers and telephones in stock.

Because we buy in large lots, we have the ability to supply many lodging properties and residential facilities with large quantities of quality furnishings at liquidation prices.

We also offer the astute homeowner or consumer the ultimate in bargain hunting experiences! Why rent furniture, or buy inexpensive residential furniture because of budget constraints, when this type of quality is available at a much lower price? You really owe it to yourself to consider fine surplus hotel furnishings.

In addition, we often find truly beautiful, one-of-a-kind pieces from the suites and lobbies of fine luxury hotels. Hotel Surplus Outlet offers the bargain hunter a wonderful opportunity to acquire a wide range of unique designer pieces at very reasonable prices!

Biographical Information: Donald F. Fenning

The Fenning Group, the parent company of Hotel Surplus Outlet, was formed by Donald Fenning in 1998, following a distinguished twenty-five year career at Cleveland Wrecking Company, including service as it's President and Chief Operating Officer. As an executive in the demolition and salvage business for over 25 years, Mr. Fenning presided over a wide range of national contracting and salvage resale operations. Mr. Fenning also served as President and Director of the National Association of Demolition contractors.

Mr. Fenning's prior experience also involved the operation of successful salvage outlet yards in Los Angeles and San Francisco. These yards handled the resale of salvage, fixtures, and other recovered materials from Cleveland Wrecking Company's wide array of projects, including some major hotel salvage efforts.

Following the acquisition of Cleveland Wrecking Company in the late 1990s by a public company, Mr. Fenning decided to strike out on his own, and he created a new enterprise. With his salvage expertise and asset recovery skills as a base of experience, Donald Fenning created THE FENNING GROUP, with a strong focus on addressing the needs of the hotel salvage and resale business. Shortly thereafter, Mr. Fenning decided to open HOTEL SURPLUS OUTLET, a resale warehouse for hotel furnishings as an ancillary operation of the Fenning Group.

The Fenning Group has put a strong focus on meeting the needs of the hotel industry through offering a variety of hotel content liquidation, asset recovery, and service programs. The company's crews provide efficient de-installation and removal of goods from hotels and lodging properties in a tightly orchestrated fashion, along with payment of top recovery values. The Fenning Group's asset recovery programs can also be combined with various related services to create a more comprehensive approach to the furniture removal, salvage, and liquidation aspects of major hotel renovation projects.

These wide and varied inventories are stored, displayed, and re-marketed at the HOTEL SURPLUS OUTLET complex in Los Angeles. The company conducts a wide range of marketing and sales operations to make these goods available to our wholesale and retail customers.