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...

I’ve talked about … for lack of a better word … seductive words used in auction advertising. One such is “absolute,” where everything is...

Those auctions have involved generally a person acting as an auctioneer, accepting bids from auction attendees and selling property to...

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...

It’s also said that all movies and plays that followed Shakespeare’s time are just reinterpretations of those completed works. I’m hardly...

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...

As a result, Stephen called his longtime auctioneer friend Freddie Marshall. Since Stephen and his wife Kayla couldn’t agree about the...

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...

The NAA also represents the individual auctioneer and a range of auction professionals servicing a variety of industries. The association...

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...

Most all auctions in the United States today require the bidders to register before bidding. Such registration for a live auction is...

Why conduct auctions and only sell 60% – 65% of the property, leaving as much as 40% unsold? Manheim COO Janet Barnard recently asked...

Similarly, charity auctions typically involve a charity as defined under IRS regulation section 501(c)(3). These auctions might be for...

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...

What’s the thinking here? Auctioneers endeavor to use wording to attract bidders — to get them to pay attention to their auction instead...

Headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas, the NAA represents the interests of thousands of auctioneers in the U.S., Canada and across the...

Do online-only auctioneers hide sale prices (auction results?) It appears to me that most do. Why would an online-only auctioneer do...

As such, many are flying to destinations, and in need of excellent quality luggage. After discussing this issue with several auctioneers...

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...

… 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...