text: CARMEL, Ind.– Scott Jones, founder of ChaCha and inventor of voicemail, will hold an estate sale at his 27,000 square-foot Carmel estate in September. 
   
   Jones has resided in Hawaii for the last few years and has decided to open the doors to his mansion and invite the public to peruse a lifetime of collections and household furnishings. 
   
   The sale will run from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. on Sept. 14-17. The house is located at 1150 West 116th St, Carmel, IN 46032. 
   
   “This sale will undoubtedly be one of the best estate sales ever conducted – not only in the state of Indiana, but the entire country,” said Aether Estate Sales Co. 
   
   The Carmel home is built in the style of an English country manor. It cost $20 million and took seven years to build. The mansion’s features include a 33-foot high great room, an indoor tree house, a circular mahogany slide, a 25-foot long saltwater aquarium and an indoor basketball court. It also has many automation features. 
   
   The estate has been on shows like HGTV’s Mega Mansions and MTV Cribs. It has served as an incubator for members of the tech scene over the years. 
   
   Jones has amassed a collection of eclectic possessions, including: 
   
   T-Rex skull cast 
   
   High-end, original art 
   
   Museum-quality, priceless antiques 
   
   Custom-built furniture 
   
   Kubota tractors 
   
   Incredible clock collection 
   
   Conversation pieces 
   
   Home accents 
   
   For more information, visit Aether Estate Sales Co. online here or call (317) 567-2319. ||||| Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE Entrepreneur and coder Scott Jones opens his Carmel home up to Airbnb. Take a video tour. (August 2017) Mykal McEldowney/IndyStar 
   
   Buy Photo The home of Scott Jones, now on the market for $4,995,000. (Photo: Mykal McEldowney/IndyStar)Buy Photo 
   
   Scott Jones is simplifying. 
   
   The tech maven with the big house on 116th Street — the one with the indoor tree house, the 25-foot saltwater aquarium, the spiral slide made of the finest mahogany — is selling his stuff. 
   
   Jones has been living mostly in Hawaii for the past two years and has decided that the Carmel house's furnishings must go, all of them. 
   
   This would include his Tyrannosaurus rex skull replica, for which he'll take $10,000, and his Steinway grand piano, $100,000. The sale runs Sept. 14-17, at the house, 1150 W. 116th St. 
   
   It's not an auction; it's a sale. People can walk through the house and check out the merchandise as if the house were a store. 
   
   "Everything will be bar coded," said Lee Parson of Fishers-based Aether Estate Sales Co., who's managing the sale. 
   
   Jones' house — seven bedrooms, 14 bathrooms, 24,000 square feet — is for sale, too. The asking price is $4,995,000. 
   
   You don't have to be Steinway-rich to file through the house next month and acquire a piece of Jones' legacy. Parson said everyday household items will be sold alongside the good stuff, including "half-opened bottles of Windex that'll be 50 cents." 
   
   Jones, 56, has a second home in Honolulu, and a couple years ago, he began spending most of his time there. He kept his Carmel house occupied by running a computer coding school out of the great room and the theater and renting bedrooms on Airbnb. 
   
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   He moved to Indianapolis as a teenager and graduated from North Central High School and later Indiana University. At 25, while living in Boston, he invented the technology that made voicemail practical. He sold it for $50 million then started several other businesses. 
   
   Jones returned to his hometown in the 1990s and, as a 30-something multimillionaire tech titan, quickly became a major player. He was one of the key voices lobbying for Indiana's move to daylight-saving time, a surprisingly hotly contested transition that he and other business leaders considered critical to aligning Indiana with business interests on the coasts. 
   
   He gave money away, most notably $3 million to The Children's Museum for its "Dinosphere," a dinosaur exhibit. 
   
   Along the way, Jones collected a wide variety of stuff from all over the world: antiques, artwork, a suit of armor, a model of the sailing ship that's the size of a fourth-grader, and a telescope so huge that it takes three people to move. 
   
   Parson predicted dispensing it would be "the best estate sale ever held in Indiana." 
   
   "Everything must go," said Jones' publicist, John Ross. "This will be a nice opportunity for people to see how the other half lives." 
   
   Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE Have you ever wanted to peek inside the Carmel, Ind., mansion of tech guru Scott Jones? Now you can — and you might be able to walk away with a memento, too. Jones is selling all of his possessions from the Hamilton County home. Dwight Adams/IndyStar 
   
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target: – Tech titan Scott Jones, best known for inventing voicemail and founding the search engine ChaCha, is moving on. The Indiana native has spent most of the past two years in Hawaii, and now he's decided to sell the Indiana house, which he has been renting out on Airbnb, for nearly $5 million and throw one of the country's "best estate sales ever conducted" per the company managing the sale, Aether Estate Sales Co. Fox59 reports that the Carmel home took seven years and $20 million to build in the tradition of an English country manor. It also boasts a 25-foot saltwater aquarium, circular mahogany slide, indoor tree house, and more. But what's for sale inside the 27,000-square-foot, 7-bedroom, 14-bathroom mega mansion is arguably more intriguing. That's because Jones, who is 56, is a collector with eclectic interests. Want a T. rex skull replica? That'll cost $10,000. A Steinway grand piano? That's a cool $100,000. He's also got "high-end, original art" and "museum-quality, priceless antiques," but because everything must go, there are even price tags on half-empty bottles of Windex (50 cents), reports IndyStar. The sale runs Sept. 14 through 17 and is open to the public; buyers can wander through the house to check out the wares as they would at any other estate sale. (Estate sales can turn up stolen masterpieces.)