Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
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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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jan 13, 20143 min read
That one very expensive asset at absolute auction?
As a result, Stephen called his longtime auctioneer friend Freddie Marshall. Since Stephen and his wife Kayla couldn’t agree about the...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jan 3, 20143 min read
The 9 important traits of a contract bid caller
I had already given this some thought, and dug around in my file cabinet to find where I had written the word: Practical. The word...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Dec 26, 20134 min read
Should NAA become a trade association?
The NAA also represents the individual auctioneer and a range of auction professionals servicing a variety of industries. The association...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Dec 25, 20133 min read
Is the auctioneer the seller?
I was talking to her the other day and ask how things were going … She said, “Great!” I just put two homes into contract and I’ve sold...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Dec 21, 20133 min read
Auctioneers demanding bidders’ Social Security numbers
Most all auctions in the United States today require the bidders to register before bidding. Such registration for a live auction is...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Dec 17, 20132 min read
Car auction closing rate only 60% – 65%
Why conduct auctions and only sell 60% – 65% of the property, leaving as much as 40% unsold? Manheim COO Janet Barnard recently asked...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Dec 15, 20132 min read
The benefit auction exemption?
Similarly, charity auctions typically involve a charity as defined under IRS regulation section 501(c)(3). These auctions might be for...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Dec 7, 20134 min read
Our auction is not absolute, nor with reserve
In other words, an auction is one type or the other — and necessarily one or the other — and not both. We have written extensively about...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Dec 4, 20132 min read
Ordered sold at auction
What’s the thinking here? Auctioneers endeavor to use wording to attract bidders — to get them to pay attention to their auction instead...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Dec 2, 20132 min read
Why attend an International Auctioneers Conference and Show?
Headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas, the NAA represents the interests of thousands of auctioneers in the U.S., Canada and across the...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Nov 30, 20132 min read
Why an online-only auction would (or should) hide results
Do online-only auctioneers hide sale prices (auction results?) It appears to me that most do. Why would an online-only auctioneer do...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Nov 28, 20132 min read
The best luggage for traveling auctioneers
As such, many are flying to destinations, and in need of excellent quality luggage. After discussing this issue with several auctioneers...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Nov 26, 20134 min read
Passed lots at auctions
Drip … drip … drip … drip … drip … drip … I got up and fumbled my way to the bathroom and turned the faucet handle a bit tighter, and the...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Nov 22, 20133 min read
Auctioneers: Ask not what your association can do for you
… Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country. We’ve embedded the entire speech later if you care to...
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