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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,...

Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Apr 4, 20142 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...

Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Mar 30, 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...

Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Mar 20, 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. ...

Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Mar 13, 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...

Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Mar 10, 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.”...

Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Mar 6, 20143 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...

Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Mar 3, 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,...

Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Feb 27, 20142 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...

Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Feb 20, 20144 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...

Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Feb 18, 20142 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...

Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Feb 15, 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...

Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Feb 11, 20143 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...

Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Feb 8, 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...

Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Feb 2, 20144 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...

Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jan 26, 20142 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...

Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jan 21, 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...

Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jan 13, 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...

Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jan 3, 20143 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...

Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Dec 26, 20134 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...

Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Dec 25, 20133 min read
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