Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
It’s easy to become an auctioneer, but …
“I want to be an auctioneer … how do I go about that?” is a fairly typical question. I usually inquire about where the caller is hoping...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Apr 20, 20143 min read
Credit card (surcharge) mess for auctioneers
At that time, we used a Verifone 330 credit card swiper, a DC power supply, a Motorola bag phone and a long antenna. We were the first...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Apr 16, 20143 min read
Disregarding the client
Of the issues that auctioneering and real estate education share, one is agency. We wrote extensively on agency here:...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Apr 13, 20142 min read
Notarize signature on auction contract?
Auctioneers sign contracts with clients (sellers,) facilitate contracts between sellers and buyers when selling property, and sometimes...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Apr 4, 20142 min read
Archaeological Resources Protection Act and related for auctioneers
There are a myriad of federal laws which restrict the sale, possession, transfer, ownership, mailing, receiving, destroying, hiding,...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Mar 30, 20143 min read
Auctioneers who work for “free” are worth just that?
Actually, I believe this most recent discussion resulted from a sales technique exchange, in which an auctioneer who charges more might...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Mar 20, 20143 min read
Auction law consultant
Since opening an auction school, and especially since being asked to teach auctioneer continuing education, I have become intensely...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Mar 13, 20143 min read
Can the high bidder bid against himself?
Fortunate for David, an auction in New York notes a complete liquidation of a longtime Boston Red Sox collector taking place Saturday. ...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Mar 10, 20143 min read
Auction, negotiate, auction, negotiate …
You might have guessed one is auction and the other is private negotiation. And today, we’re looking at the combination of these two...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Mar 6, 20143 min read
Can anyone auction their own property?
In other words, without the use of an auctioneer, real estate licensee, appraiser, surveyor, attorney … an owner can “do it himself.”...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Mar 3, 20142 min read
Bibles and flags at auction?
Why not? It appears these views are founded in the history of “we’ve always [not] done it that way,” rather than actually looking at the...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Feb 27, 20142 min read
How to manage illegal seller bidding
Illegal seller bidding is just that — the seller bidding at auction when he or she is not permitted to do so under the law. Basically,...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Feb 20, 20144 min read
How to manage legal seller bidding
Given that there are only two types of auctions, and one being a without reserve auction with no reserves, the other type is with...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Feb 18, 20142 min read
Expected annual earnings are $360,000-$800,000
Yet, even these highly profitable auctioneers’ incomes pale in comparison to expected annual earnings of $360,000-$800,000. How does one...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Feb 15, 20143 min read
Dave Ramsey: Sell a house at auction rather than rent?
The letter regarding the better choice between continuing to rent a couple homes, or sell them at auction:Dear Dave, I have a couple of...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Feb 11, 20143 min read
… and many more items too numerous to mention
I’ve talked about … for lack of a better word … seductive words used in auction advertising. One such is “absolute,” where everything is...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Feb 8, 20144 min read
Give up selling live — do it all online?
Those auctions have involved generally a person acting as an auctioneer, accepting bids from auction attendees and selling property to...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Feb 2, 20144 min read
When is an auctioneer legally calling for bids?
A particular 11 words are of interest today:In an auction without reserve, after the auctioneer calls for bids on an article or lot, that...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jan 26, 20142 min read
Auctioneer stories …
It’s also said that all movies and plays that followed Shakespeare’s time are just reinterpretations of those completed works. I’m hardly...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jan 21, 20143 min read
Bid calling accuracy matters
All of these auctions have been live auctions with a few coupled with online bidding. So given that, there was an auctioneer (me or one...
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