Episode Transcript
[00:00:01] Speaker A: Oh, you were gonna do it? You do it?
[00:00:02] Speaker B: No, I was bringing it.
[00:00:04] Speaker C: Bring it.
[00:00:05] Speaker A: Okay, everybody. Welcome to Real Estate Makes a Streak.
[00:00:09] Speaker B: Gotta remember the name of the show.
[00:00:10] Speaker A: I do. I'm Brad Dickin with Nest Mortgage Group.
[00:00:13] Speaker B: Brian Quinlan here from Daniels Real Estate. And no, you are not mistaken. There's another random person sitting next to me. Sir. Tell them who you are.
[00:00:23] Speaker C: Good evening, everybody. I'm Mark Huber with Huber Auction and Real Estate Group here in Greenfield. And thank you, gentlemen, for having me here this evening.
[00:00:30] Speaker B: Is it okay to say here in Greenfield when you're in McCordsville?
[00:00:32] Speaker C: Well, this is Greenfield address, isn't it?
[00:00:34] Speaker A: Nope, nope.
[00:00:35] Speaker C: We're.
[00:00:35] Speaker A: We're a mile up from the. We're McCordville.
[00:00:37] Speaker C: Okay, well, McCordville.
[00:00:40] Speaker A: Teeny bit bougie.
[00:00:41] Speaker C: I'm across the the line, just up.
[00:00:43] Speaker A: The road a little bit, right down there.
[00:00:46] Speaker B: Teeny bit bougie.
[00:00:47] Speaker A: Teeny bit bougie. You know, this is the second guy that we've had on this show that really should have been in radio for real. Did you hear that voice?
[00:00:57] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:00:57] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:00:57] Speaker B: Well, okay. You work for an auction company.
[00:01:00] Speaker C: A.
[00:01:01] Speaker B: Do you own the company?
[00:01:02] Speaker C: Yes, sir.
[00:01:02] Speaker B: Okay. Do you auction?
[00:01:04] Speaker A: Oh, do you do like.
[00:01:05] Speaker B: Are you to do it on the mic?
[00:01:06] Speaker C: I. I can do that.
[00:01:07] Speaker B: Oh, can you. Can you do it like. Can you super fast, like, do like.
[00:01:11] Speaker A: Okay, you are selling real estate. Makes us drink Amazon, Google, Apple. All of the bigs are here.
[00:01:18] Speaker C: Okay?
[00:01:19] Speaker A: And the starting bid is $135 million.
[00:01:24] Speaker C: 135 million. Holy cow. That's what we're going for 100. That's where we want to get to, or that's what we're starting at?
[00:01:31] Speaker A: No, that's what we're starting at. We ain't doing it for them people for anything less than that.
[00:01:34] Speaker C: Wow. All right, who give me 135 million? Who give me 140? 140 million. 145. 145 million. 150. 150 million. 160. 170. 70. 70 million. 880. 180 million. 180. 180. 180. 170. How about 175, sir? I know. Thanks. A little time. 180.
I think it'd be 200 million 202. 200 million. 190 would have been 2. Well, somebody's got to be in. 190 would have been, too.
[00:02:03] Speaker A: 190.
[00:02:04] Speaker C: Sold to Mr. Nick.
[00:02:05] Speaker B: Oh, my goodness. That's fantastic, man.
[00:02:08] Speaker C: I'll tell you, that's a big increment.
[00:02:10] Speaker B: I do a fair amount of PA announcing, but I don't have that right there.
[00:02:14] Speaker C: Well.
[00:02:15] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:02:15] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:02:16] Speaker B: Is that. Is that just something you kind of develop over time?
[00:02:19] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:02:20] Speaker B: You go to school for that?
[00:02:21] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah. Actually you do. To get your auction license, you have to do 90, 90 hours of class. And then you got to pass the state test as well, so. And through all that, they teach you a lot of. A lot of law and a lot of, you know, different things. But part of it is the big calling.
[00:02:36] Speaker A: So I would be like. The first day in class would be like, you say that again.
[00:02:42] Speaker B: I did not catch a word you just said. Hey, you know what? We have forgotten. What are you drinking, Brad?
[00:02:47] Speaker A: Today I am drinking Takia kosher spirits.
[00:02:52] Speaker B: It is kosher?
[00:02:53] Speaker A: Yeah. This is a pickle. No, this is a really cool tequila.
[00:02:58] Speaker B: Makes it look green.
[00:02:59] Speaker A: So it's made by Greg, who is a professional.
[00:03:04] Speaker B: Just Greg.
[00:03:05] Speaker A: Greg Sobel.
[00:03:06] Speaker B: Thank you.
[00:03:07] Speaker A: Sorry. Greg's been a professional drummer. He's played for some of the biggest acts all the way back from the 80s. And he is Mexican Jewish.
And he wanted a tequila that could be used for all of the celebrations that they do. So if you. If you look at the top, it says and then salute. Right? And then the name Takiya. Takiya is what they yell a Jewish holiday or Jewish New year. So when it's the new year, they say Takia. So they do l'chaim. Salud. Tequila.
Right. So he wanted to bring out an actual ou certified kosher tequila. And the whole label has all these wonderful symbolisms. And the tequila is actually really, really good.
And Greg is a just an amazing guy putting together something awesome. Is a very brand new, very small company that just came out in December of 24 and made. Made a great product with a product with a passion and a purpose behind it, which is really cool.
[00:04:09] Speaker B: Nice.
[00:04:10] Speaker A: What are you drinking here?
[00:04:11] Speaker B: Well, Sun King Sunlight Cremale, which of course we've had our buddy Kevin from Sun King on the show and he. He left me a few of those beers and so that's what we got today. Just had a cool tour at Sun King and. Yeah, yeah, that was a good time. Thanks to Kevin for that. We had decent sized group. It was a good time. So I'm a huge fan of the Sun King Cremale and here we are.
[00:04:36] Speaker A: They're like a pseudo sponsor of the show somewhat.
[00:04:38] Speaker B: Yeah, like a sponsor with a little asterisk, I think there.
Absolutely. So, you know, go and support Sun King. We're big fans. What did he pour for you, do you know?
[00:04:50] Speaker C: Well, I can't remember. Brad, what was this?
[00:04:53] Speaker A: The high proof 47 ABV. Siete Leguas. Brand new product for them. That's a great tequila and very good. Yeah, that's a very.
[00:05:03] Speaker B: Cheers to you, sir. Thanks for coming out here today all the way from Greenfield.
[00:05:10] Speaker A: Oh, that's good tequila.
[00:05:12] Speaker B: So, Mark, did you always want to be an auctioneer?
[00:05:15] Speaker C: No, sir.
[00:05:16] Speaker B: Or own an auction company?
[00:05:17] Speaker C: Never. Probably would have ever thought that I would have made that a career path.
[00:05:22] Speaker B: All right, well, let's go with how long have you been doing this?
[00:05:25] Speaker C: I got my actual auction license in 2015.
[00:05:28] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:05:28] Speaker B: So about 10 years.
[00:05:29] Speaker C: Yeah, I helped some local auctioneers and things before that. Kind of got my feet wet and then they were like, you know, just go to school. You hang around enough. So that's. That's where I went. And. Oh, late 24 or late 14 and got my license in early 15, so.
[00:05:49] Speaker B: Okay, what'd you do before that?
[00:05:51] Speaker C: We had a trucking and excavating company.
[00:05:53] Speaker A: Okay. I thought you were an excavating.
[00:05:55] Speaker C: Yep. So we did mostly a lot of trucking, but we did a little bit of excavating and all through the way, so.
[00:06:00] Speaker A: And you've done some local county politics as well?
[00:06:03] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, a little bit of that.
[00:06:05] Speaker A: That's what I thought. Along the way, hanging out with my friend Brad Armstrong. He's been on the show.
[00:06:11] Speaker B: Hello, Brad. I'm sure he's watching this.
[00:06:13] Speaker C: He tuned in tonight, you think?
[00:06:14] Speaker A: I hope so. You know, his viewing is kind of up and down.
[00:06:21] Speaker B: It's fantastic.
[00:06:22] Speaker A: Great joke.
[00:06:23] Speaker B: Come for the drinks, stay for the dad jokes, brother.
[00:06:27] Speaker A: He's in the garage door business, in case you didn't.
[00:06:29] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:06:30] Speaker B: So the trucking company, was that one that you owned or just one you worked for?
[00:06:34] Speaker C: Nope, I've been self employed since about 97.
[00:06:38] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:06:39] Speaker A: Which means he and I are both unemployable.
[00:06:43] Speaker C: Yes, you're probably right.
[00:06:44] Speaker A: Self employed since 97 as well.
[00:06:46] Speaker C: My wife would agree with that.
[00:06:47] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:06:48] Speaker B: Does the trucking company still exist?
[00:06:50] Speaker C: No, we actually almost two years ago, sold our last. Last dump truck and got out and just auctions and real estate's what we do full time, so.
[00:07:01] Speaker A: Okay, so let's. You probably do a lot of estate sales, right?
[00:07:04] Speaker C: Well, yeah, we do a fair share of that.
[00:07:06] Speaker B: That's an area of real estate we don't talk enough about.
[00:07:09] Speaker A: Yeah. So what happens? Grandma. My grandma died a long time ago, but grandma dies, has an estate. I don't know what to do. What. What do I Do what if I'm in that situation?
[00:07:19] Speaker C: Well, you can call us or an auction company and we can come in and I mean, give you a lot of advice is one thing. You know, try to give you some rough values on things and what's worth keeping and what's worth selling and different things. I mean, we can start, we can do everything from A to Z. I mean, we do clean outs, we do disposal, we do the auction. You know, we can help him with some repairs with different contractors we work with and so just a bunch of different things. But yeah, I mean, we try to be a one stop shop, but we go in and try to devise a plan that kind of meets everybody's goals if they have a timeline or things they're trying to achieve.
And then, you know, we can do online auctions, live auctions, simulcast auctions, where they're live and online at the same time. Just depends on the, the asset. But most personal property stuff anymore, we're doing online.
[00:08:12] Speaker A: How do you deal with the, the sentimental expectations of what something's. Oh, my grandma gave me this blanket, you know, I think it should sell for a thousand dollars. And you're like, that's not going to.
[00:08:26] Speaker B: Sell at all like a blanket. And no one knew your grandmother, so they're not gonna pay a thousand dollars.
[00:08:30] Speaker A: How do you deal with those things in a way that doesn't destroy the person you're talking to? Because that's probably one of the hardest things.
[00:08:39] Speaker C: And, and it is. I mean, you can't sell sentiment really. You know, so that's the, that's the hard thing.
[00:08:45] Speaker B: I feel like that's your opening line. Just let's lay this out here at the beginning. I can't sell sentiment now. Let's get into it.
[00:08:53] Speaker C: Yeah, and you do. I mean, you know, you got to be compassionate about it when you go out and talk to somebody because it is, you know, their world, a loved one's world. It's what they grew up with. It's what mom and dad had. It's what, you know, I mean, they worked their whole life for. I mean, there's just a lot of, a lot of things and a lot of emotion there that's rolling around. But, you know, I mean, you have to be sympathetic, but you also have to set the expectation, you know, and, and I tell them, you know, if it's, if it's a, anything in the family would want, you know, keep it, keep it. And you know, if you ever decide, you know, well, I really don't need this and you can always sell it, but once you sell it, it's you most of the time you're not going to get it back. Every now and then there's those fluke occasions that somebody will go find something somewhere and get it bought back.
[00:09:38] Speaker B: That's what they make movies about.
[00:09:39] Speaker C: Y. Yeah, yeah. Few and far between. So I usually tell them, you know, if there's anything you're on the fence about anything that's really special to you, you know, maybe you ought to keep it for a while, kind of let the emotions settle down a little bit and then, you know, maybe you can make a little better letter, better decision on it. So.
[00:09:55] Speaker A: So do you help guide people through that probate process as well?
[00:09:59] Speaker C: We work with a lot of attorneys and different things that we can, you know, assist and you know, try to get information for the courts and different things. We don't cross that legal line. But you know, if we need to do appraisals or evaluations or give somebody an idea what stuff's worth and you know, we can turn that into the courts and help help with that process, but we're not attorneys.
[00:10:21] Speaker A: So. So let's say somebody had an ill parent. Okay. And they knew that time was coming and they didn't have a will.
How much harder is the process if somebody doesn't have a will versus somebody just going ahead and putting together a will?
[00:10:38] Speaker C: Extremely. I would advise everybody to, as tough as it is, and a lot of.
[00:10:43] Speaker B: People, no one likes talking about it.
[00:10:44] Speaker C: Yeah, nobody likes to talk about it. But it will make your loved ones life a lot easier when that time does come because it can get messy, you know, and unfortunately, you know, people get a little crazy sometimes when something happens and. Well, I didn't know that and I was supposed to have this. And you know, it's best to have your wishes laid out. If you have a strong preference, family.
[00:11:09] Speaker A: Members will fight over some.
[00:11:10] Speaker C: Yes, oh, yes, you may have, may.
[00:11:13] Speaker B: Have already touched on this. But when it comes to the real estate portion of that. So you're going to auction off somebody's house.
How is it, are you responsible for determining kind of the, the title of that? Meaning how do you know that there isn't some long lost relative that's going to come out of the woodworks and say, wait a minute, you can't auction this house. That's my great long lost grandmother or something like that?
[00:11:40] Speaker C: Well, right. I mean, first of all, it's, you know, you're gonna have the deed.
[00:11:45] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:11:45] Speaker C: You know, you're gonna do title Work.
[00:11:47] Speaker B: Yeah, there you go.
[00:11:47] Speaker C: You're gonna do different things like that. Obviously, you know, we always ask for any legal paperwork just for our files in case there ever is an issue.
So, I mean, you gotta be careful. You don't want to, you know, and you gotta have a signed contract. And, you know, if they got a POA or if they're the executor. Exactress. You know, you gotta have all that, you know, do everything you can. I mean, we all know in this crazy world, things pop up and you just have to work through them. That. But, you know, we try to. Try to check everything, do preliminary title work, things like that, to make sure that everything's square.
[00:12:21] Speaker B: Now, in that instance. So you're the one selling the house, but you're not a realtor. You don't have a real estate license, correct?
[00:12:29] Speaker C: No. I'm our managing broker for our real estate company.
[00:12:32] Speaker A: Oh.
[00:12:32] Speaker B: Well, is that a requirement of an auction company to have something like that?
[00:12:36] Speaker C: No, actually, an auctioneer can sell a piece of real estate.
[00:12:39] Speaker B: Really?
[00:12:39] Speaker C: But you cannot do the paperwork. You either have to have a realtor, a licensed realtor, or you have to have an attorney.
[00:12:47] Speaker B: So, like, you would have essentially a listing agent, the one who's responsible for selling the house, potentially, except for your situation, but. So they're the ones doing the paperwork? Essentially, yeah.
[00:12:59] Speaker C: I mean, you can have another real estate licensed real estate agent, or you can have an attorney do the.
[00:13:05] Speaker A: So you'd auction it and all done, decide on the price. But because you'd have your real estate license, you wouldn't be able to write that paperwork. You'd have to have an attorney or a realtor write the paperwork.
[00:13:14] Speaker C: I. I can do it, because I am.
[00:13:16] Speaker A: But if you didn't.
[00:13:17] Speaker C: Yeah, you would have to be. Yeah, you'd have to have a licensed realtor or a attorney. That makes sense.
[00:13:23] Speaker A: I didn't know that. I mean, I knew a lot of the auction people that I know are also realtors, but they don't focus.
They focus more on the auction side of it than they do the real estate side of it. Yeah.
Yeah, that's. That's very interesting. You know, I didn't know how that worked.
[00:13:39] Speaker C: There you go.
[00:13:40] Speaker B: Rather fascinating, I'd say.
[00:13:41] Speaker C: No charge.
[00:13:46] Speaker A: You see the tequila? Check.
[00:13:49] Speaker C: I want to sneak out the back door.
[00:13:53] Speaker B: Nice.
[00:13:54] Speaker C: Fantastic.
[00:13:55] Speaker A: So what's the craziest thing. Well, you've ever auctioned off?
[00:14:01] Speaker C: Oh, my craziest? I don't know. I mean, we just had a big wedding dress auction. Yeah, that was kind of strange. And unusual hard asset class.
We sold about 1075 wedding dresses.
[00:14:17] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:14:17] Speaker C: So, yeah, I feel like.
[00:14:20] Speaker B: Did you ever, like, do the bid.
[00:14:22] Speaker A: And then stop and go? Honey, you ain't gonna fit in that.
[00:14:26] Speaker C: This was online only. This was online only.
[00:14:31] Speaker A: Baby, baby, baby, wait a minute.
[00:14:33] Speaker B: I see your profile picture. You're not gonna put that up.
[00:14:36] Speaker A: There's not enough material to make this one wrap around you.
[00:14:39] Speaker C: Yeah, no, I mean, I don't. You know, you just. I'm trying to think of anything really odd. I mean, most of it's just personal property equipment, you know.
[00:14:48] Speaker B: Okay, so have you ever gone into someone's house and they want to auction something off and you're like, that thing is freaking awesome. Like, can I just buy this from you?
[00:14:59] Speaker A: Yeah. How much stuff do you have in your own personal barn? What's your garage look like?
[00:15:04] Speaker C: It used to be a lot worse when we had the live auctions, because, you know, but it seemed like I was always taking home a half a truckload with me because it's just cool stuff. Yeah, I mean, I mean, honestly, I mean. I mean, I've probably done that a few times, but, I mean, we just tried to put it up. If it's something we want, we buy it at the auction. We want it to be fair to the seller and, you know, make sure that it brings market price. And so, I mean, you know, we don't do a ton of that. I mean, if somebody's just saying, hey, we want, you know, we do buy some estates and not as much as we used to. It's just unfortunately, just everyday personal property is just down, you know, it's not. Not what it used to be. Furniture and things.
[00:15:43] Speaker B: Go ahead.
[00:15:44] Speaker A: Every once in a while, you're driving out to Wilkerson, you know, or heading out to one of these little towns, and you'll see that there's an auction going on and there's pickup trucks and cars wrapped around and. I know.
[00:15:56] Speaker B: Pickup truck required at an auction.
[00:15:57] Speaker C: Hey, easy, man.
[00:16:00] Speaker A: A lot of farmers out in the country.
[00:16:01] Speaker B: I feel like they are, Right?
[00:16:02] Speaker C: You gotta have it.
[00:16:04] Speaker B: Right?
[00:16:04] Speaker A: Let me rephrase it.
[00:16:05] Speaker B: I get it.
[00:16:07] Speaker A: You're heading out to Miller's Corner, right? And there's all these Teslas parked around this house.
[00:16:12] Speaker B: Thank you. Okay.
[00:16:13] Speaker A: Because they're looking for a charger because.
[00:16:16] Speaker C: They went too far.
[00:16:17] Speaker A: There's only one. Hey, does that welder have a plug in?
[00:16:20] Speaker B: I just need an outlet.
[00:16:23] Speaker A: So, you know, I see those in the summertime often, but in the winter time, I don't see those as often. And do people opt to do that open farm auction in the summertime and. But not as much in the wintertime and do more online?
[00:16:37] Speaker C: Yeah, well, I mean, I hate to even bring it up, but since COVID the whole auction world's win a lot more online.
[00:16:44] Speaker A: No kidding.
[00:16:45] Speaker C: Just in general. Yeah, just people kind of got used to it. Yeah, Yeah.
I don't go to the ball game. They can still go out to eat. They can, you know, whatever their daily function is and they can sit there and bid, you know, so to go spend six or eight hours all day or whatever at a live auction is, you know, they still happen and you still can get a good turnout. It's just a matter of the asset, you know, that's the big thing. I mean, it's hard to get a good turnout for, you know, just everyday household furniture and pots and pans.
[00:17:19] Speaker A: And I think it's the farms that are the bigger ones. Those bring a lot of people.
[00:17:23] Speaker C: Yeah. And most of those you would probably do live and possibly simulcast live and online if you got a bunch of high end equipment and gotcha, you know, things like that. But yeah, you know, the barns, the, the everything, you dig it out and you still have a lot of those live.
[00:17:38] Speaker A: So I've been to those. I think they're so cool.
[00:17:41] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:17:42] Speaker A: Like it's so cool to you look through all the things and then how people get excited about 50 cents, this box of tools.
[00:17:50] Speaker C: Oh yeah.
[00:17:52] Speaker A: And, and farmers. I love my farmers. Don't get mad at me, farmers. But I'm going to say this anyway. They all will cannibalize themselves. Is that not true?
Farmers are like, you know, I always thought that the farmer ran to the other farmer because the barn was on fire and they'd help put it out. Nope, nope. They went to watch it burn.
[00:18:11] Speaker C: It can be a little cutthroat.
[00:18:13] Speaker A: It's a little cutthroat.
[00:18:14] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:18:14] Speaker A: I learned that the hard way. Working with some farmers. I found out that people hated me because I liked that farmer.
But then their, their farm becomes for sale and they're all there.
[00:18:24] Speaker C: Oh yeah, yeah.
[00:18:25] Speaker A: I'll give you a dollar for that.
[00:18:29] Speaker C: Absolutely.
[00:18:29] Speaker B: Now, as an auction company, you don't just deal in estates, you do all sorts of auctions.
[00:18:35] Speaker C: Yes. Yeah, we do a little bit everything. A lot of commercial, industrial. We do work for a lot of the banks, you know, on, unfortunately on some repossessions and bankruptcies and we do. We actually every week we sell at least one, maybe two auctions a week. And just like Overstock and big box.
[00:18:54] Speaker A: Oh, no kidding.
[00:18:55] Speaker C: Yeah. So where do people.
[00:18:57] Speaker B: Random boxes and they get whatever's in it? They don't know what's in it?
[00:19:00] Speaker C: No, we take pictures. Didn't you check out my website before I came?
[00:19:03] Speaker A: No, that's what.
[00:19:05] Speaker B: Stay with the website.
[00:19:06] Speaker A: What is the website?
[00:19:07] Speaker C: So, I mean, our actual website's huberauction group.com.
[00:19:10] Speaker A: It'S right here.
[00:19:11] Speaker C: Oh, right there.
[00:19:12] Speaker A: Right here.
[00:19:13] Speaker C: Right hereauctiongroup.com.
[00:19:14] Speaker A: Yeah, it's right there.
[00:19:15] Speaker C: And then there's also. If you go just directly to bidhuber.com, it takes you right to our auctions that are online.
[00:19:22] Speaker A: And can you sign up to be notified when a new auction starts?
[00:19:28] Speaker C: We send out emails. You can join our email list. We send out about 17,000 emails a week.
[00:19:34] Speaker A: Do you ever get real coined slot machines?
[00:19:38] Speaker C: On occasion. We used to see them a lot more than.
[00:19:40] Speaker B: Are you looking for one for the bar or what?
[00:19:42] Speaker A: Yeah, I think a real coin slot machine for the bar here.
[00:19:46] Speaker C: I might have one coming up because I went and looked at a deal that just might have one.
[00:19:49] Speaker A: Yeah, like, I. I have a. I have a friend that does this in northern Indiana called Ness Brothers. Yeah, I've heard of Ness.
[00:19:55] Speaker C: So actually I did a little work for them. So.
[00:19:57] Speaker A: Andy Eckert.
[00:19:58] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:19:59] Speaker A: So Andy's a realtor that I work with a lot. Andy, hope you're watching. And Andy, he's like, dude, you got a bid on this? I got a quarter, a dime and a nickel.
[00:20:07] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:20:07] Speaker A: And what happened? I did. I wanted one really bad, and they were full of cash. Like, they didn't know how much cash was in them, but they were full of cash. And I. I bid it up and like. Like four or five days, nobody outbid me. And then we were out of town.
And like the last 20 minutes, I got beaten. I didn't. I wanted just to win one of them.
[00:20:28] Speaker C: Well, you could have done it while you're still out of town. I.
[00:20:30] Speaker A: But I didn't realize that he was driving. I didn't realize the close. The time that it was ended. And I thought. Actually I thought I'd already won them. You know, timing wise, I was so far ahead and then. No, by. Because I think.
[00:20:42] Speaker C: Yeah, the last.
[00:20:43] Speaker B: Last five, ten minutes is probably.
[00:20:46] Speaker A: Does it extend like, let's say the ending times at two, but somebody. Does it then extend a little bit longer and a little longer?
[00:20:51] Speaker C: Yeah. The way we usually set up most of ours, Unless it's like a piece of real estate or some. Those have a little longer Extension. But, you know, we. Us, if somebody bids within the last minute, it adds a minute to that lot.
[00:21:06] Speaker A: Okay. Yeah.
[00:21:06] Speaker C: So, yeah, so we close them about every 25 seconds. A lot's closing is the way it's set up. And then if somebody bids in that last minute, it'll add a minute.
[00:21:16] Speaker A: Speaking of adding a minute, I think right now is the time that we should add a shot.
[00:21:21] Speaker B: I was literally thinking the same thing. You and I are trying to come up with a way to segue into that Segway King.
[00:21:27] Speaker A: Nailed it.
[00:21:28] Speaker B: I'm not sure that was a king segue, but you know what?
[00:21:30] Speaker A: Pretty damn good.
[00:21:31] Speaker C: Right back.
[00:21:31] Speaker A: All right.
[00:21:32] Speaker B: I'm Brian, your Indianapolis realtor. Realtor. If you are looking to buy or sell a house in the Indy area, I'm your guy. If you're coming from out of state, want to make a move to the Indy area, I'm your guy. Check out the show notes for a link. We can get in touch and get you started. Thanks for watching. Now back to the show.
And we're back. Whoa. With the brown liquid called Woodford Reserve.
[00:21:56] Speaker A: Double oak.
[00:21:57] Speaker B: Is that what this is?
[00:21:57] Speaker A: Double oak? That's a double oak.
[00:21:58] Speaker B: Well, this was actually brought to us.
[00:22:01] Speaker A: Brought to us by Alex Smith. So it was. That's right on the show.
[00:22:05] Speaker B: Wow. But, hey, Alex. Sure. He's watching.
[00:22:08] Speaker A: I think he watches every show. Sure. Yeah. We're gonna say it is.
[00:22:18] Speaker C: Not bad.
[00:22:19] Speaker B: Not bad. Not bad at all. So in there's the Kentucky hug.
Warm a fella up in the auction world. Do you like. I don't know, kind of like the antique Roadshow. Someone has an antique thing, and they need to get it evaluated for what the value could be. Is that something you all do?
[00:22:44] Speaker C: Yeah, I mean, I'm not an actual certified appraiser. I mean, we do a lot of valuations. I mean, so. I mean, I'm not licensed and. And all for actual appraisals, but, I mean, we put numbers on stuff every day, you know, but there's a lot of good folks around town that, you know, Indy. That are actual appraisers that we send folks to, depending on what the asset is. But we can give them a rough idea. But, like, if it has to actually go into court or, you know, some.
[00:23:10] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:23:10] Speaker C: Contentious situation. We usually send somebody's license.
[00:23:13] Speaker B: So my box of baseball cards, I should not bring them to you.
[00:23:18] Speaker C: We can do some baseball cards, but, you know, you can have those, like, 20 big boxes. Yeah. And you'll probably be disappointed unless they're, like, you know, in the 70s to mid-80s or earlier.
[00:23:31] Speaker B: Those, those from the 80s that at the time were worth a real large sum of money have dropped significantly.
[00:23:39] Speaker A: Okay, so what about Hot Wheels?
[00:23:41] Speaker C: Hot Wheels? Oh yeah, you get your red lines and all the others.
[00:23:44] Speaker A: I've heard those are like a big deal.
[00:23:46] Speaker C: Yeah. Once again there's those little trains caveats that, you know, some are crazy expensive and then you might look at another and it's like.
Yeah, so it's just a lot of research, you know, and today it's a lot easier because, you know, the Internet and Google and you know, is there.
[00:24:04] Speaker A: Like a Zillow for auctioneers? No, because there's a Zillow for realtors. That's where all the information comes from.
[00:24:10] Speaker B: That's correct.
[00:24:12] Speaker A: I actually had a, I had a house come in short on the appraisal and I told my AMC look, he had appraised for two years ago for a dollar amount and it came in 25, 000 less than that. And then he told me what Zillow was, which was even less, and I said, oh, I can use Zillow now.
And there was a S, F, U.
Okay, that was the, you, you do the math. Yeah, Google that. But I got that and I was like, oh, okay. I was just checking because you brought it up.
[00:24:44] Speaker B: I think you're missing the T. That's a new rule.
[00:24:47] Speaker A: Yeah, sorry. Yeah, st.
[00:24:50] Speaker B: Either way.
[00:24:50] Speaker A: No, I think he just said, I think he skipped it too, but we know what he meant.
[00:24:56] Speaker C: He was so flustered.
[00:24:57] Speaker B: He was flustered for sure.
[00:24:59] Speaker A: And I'm so good with initials, language, acronyms.
[00:25:04] Speaker B: Yeah, any of that. So you mentioned research and I would assume your company's pretty large. How many employees you all got?
[00:25:13] Speaker C: We got a lot lately. I don't understand why I just rub off on people.
[00:25:17] Speaker B: I do, but I've been saying it for several days. I don't know why.
[00:25:20] Speaker A: He does have this great like country western voice that makes you just want to say, hey man, how y'all doing?
[00:25:27] Speaker B: Yeah, that's a good point.
[00:25:28] Speaker C: I'm sorry, you from Kentucky or. Tennessee is what I usually get.
[00:25:33] Speaker B: Indianapolis, it's a basketball match here in India.
[00:25:36] Speaker C: So yeah, I've got, I mean we've got three full time employees and then we got a part time office manager myself. Me, my wife helps a lot, my daughter, so, and then we, you know, do some subcontract work with other folks if we need extra help, but that's about it.
[00:25:55] Speaker B: Now I, I, if I had to guess, I'd say the answer is going to be. Every situation is different. But someone comes to you, says they need that we have this estate, we need to auction this stuff off, including the house. But we need it done quickly. In your world, what is reasonably quick?
[00:26:15] Speaker C: Well, I mean, we can do stuff pretty quick. It's just a matter of, you know.
[00:26:19] Speaker B: Expectations a number of days unreasonable if.
[00:26:23] Speaker C: You'Re doing real estate that, you know.
[00:26:24] Speaker A: Okay, so that's the hard part. Let's say all the legal stuff is handled.
[00:26:27] Speaker C: Right?
[00:26:27] Speaker A: Right. So that's all done.
Everything's handled. I need this stuff auctioned off. When can we get you here to auction?
[00:26:35] Speaker C: I mean, if you're selling real estate, I mean, I think realistically you need about 30 days because you gotta get your marketing and you gotta advertise, you gotta. Yeah, okay. Pictures, videos, drones.
[00:26:47] Speaker A: I mean, same for the estate side of it too, of all the stuff. Because you got to gather all. I guess you gotta gather the pictures of all this stuff and go through all this research.
[00:26:54] Speaker B: Pricing.
[00:26:55] Speaker C: Yeah. And that can be a little bit, you know, different if we're doing it because we do a lot of just like online auctions at the residence because maybe, you know, labor eats folks up these days. So we try to, if we can do it at the house, yeah, we'll do it there and then take our pictures, put it online, then just the buyers come and pick up on an advertised advertised time frame and we're there to manage it and help pick up and all. So but yeah, I mean, you know, it takes, you know, and it just depends on the size of the house. But we can get through most houses unless you get into like a hoarder situation.
[00:27:29] Speaker B: But I can only imagine we got.
[00:27:31] Speaker A: Some time magazines from 1962.
[00:27:34] Speaker C: But you know, most, most places we can go in catalog and picture and everything stage, you know, group all that in two to three days.
[00:27:45] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:27:46] Speaker C: And then usually, like for a personal property auction, we want it to be online for about 12 to 14 days.
[00:27:53] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:27:53] Speaker C: That's kind of our target. And so you can use our advertising and you know, bidders can get registered and then call with questions or email or whatever. So. And then we close it and then usually we wait about a day or so, then we do the pickup. So, you know, I mean, everything's probably in that, you know, 30ish day completion from the time we start.
[00:28:13] Speaker B: Okay. And how does pricing work for you? Or is it a flat fee based on stuff? Is it percentage?
[00:28:21] Speaker A: How do you get paid?
[00:28:22] Speaker C: Well, most of our stuff's commission based.
[00:28:24] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:28:24] Speaker C: Usually we work on commission.
You know, sometimes. Once again, if you get into an extreme situation where it is a hoarder house or a, you know, something, and you got to provide, you know, a lot more labor, sometimes we add a little bit of labor to it, you know, and it can be a flat rate. It can be by the hour, just kind of whatever's negotiated in the contract. But, you know, primarily we're commission based.
[00:28:48] Speaker A: Do you see a lot of the hoarder situation?
[00:28:52] Speaker C: I don't know if I'd say a lot, but yeah, there's. There's a handful.
[00:28:56] Speaker B: All right, so we're going there.
[00:28:58] Speaker C: We might. We might need another shot.
[00:29:03] Speaker B: You walked into a house and it's a hoarder situation, and you have found. Holy. I can't believe what I just. What is your story?
[00:29:14] Speaker C: Actually, no names, address.
One of our auctioneers actually just went to Indianapolis and picked one up. And I mean, yeah, there's just some really cool Asian pieces where it's actually will be coming to sale here probably in the next month. We got it in the building now. We're just starting to go through it, so. But some real cool wood carvings. They're about. Probably about six foot tall.
[00:29:42] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:29:43] Speaker C: I'll make sure and send you the link.
I won't get some of his money here, actually. I can feel it coming.
[00:29:49] Speaker A: But you got any palm trees?
[00:29:51] Speaker C: Yeah, maybe guitars, but. So, yeah, I mean, anything.
[00:29:57] Speaker B: Okay. I mean, that's. That's cool stuff. What about, like. Oh, my God, this is. Wow.
[00:30:02] Speaker A: How am I gonna fit? Like this dumpster.
[00:30:03] Speaker B: Yeah.
I got three dead dogs over here in the corner. I mean, anything. Just outlandish.
[00:30:11] Speaker C: I mean. Yeah, you always have the. The mice and the bats and.
[00:30:18] Speaker A: Fecal matter.
[00:30:19] Speaker C: Yeah. I was gonna say. Thank you. There you go. I was gonna say the. The pet. The pet pads that you gotta kind of, you know, walk around like a. Like a.
[00:30:28] Speaker A: Well, the litter box is supposed to be changed.
[00:30:31] Speaker C: Yes.
Probably one of the.
I. I actually wouldn't. I might have my auction. I think I had my auction license, but I was just getting started. But I was working for another company, and we were down by Bogstown, and it was a really cool old house. And it was kind of like, pretty. What they called it the very, very top. It was like the.
I don't know, the brides or say. Because there was a little hatch that went out. I can't remember what it was called now. Something's nest. But.
But they had. Man, they were a bunch of cool old toys and just old, like, comic books and Just different. Like kids when these kids were young. But the sad part was, is the bats had just had their way.
[00:31:15] Speaker B: But guano everywhere.
[00:31:17] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:31:18] Speaker A: So what'd you call it?
[00:31:19] Speaker B: Guano.
[00:31:20] Speaker A: Is that bat poopy?
[00:31:21] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:31:21] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:31:22] Speaker B: I learned that from Ace ventura pet detective 2.
[00:31:26] Speaker A: Really? Can you make any of his facial expressions in that one?
[00:31:29] Speaker B: No. Best I can do is, like, raise an eyebrow.
[00:31:31] Speaker C: So. Yeah.
[00:31:33] Speaker A: So let's say somebody has some things that they think, like old Tonka trucks or, you know, old stuff that they don't really know if it's worth anything.
[00:31:42] Speaker C: Right.
[00:31:42] Speaker A: Do they call you and say, hey, I. I have this stuff. I don't know if I should throw it away or if it's worth something. Is that something you'd look at?
[00:31:49] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. I mean, a lot of times nowadays, we'll just. Can you text us a picture or two? And then, you know, if that doesn't do it, then, hey, can we come out and take a look? But yeah, and we try to do a lot of that. If somebody's got some questions, they can either shoot a little video.
[00:32:01] Speaker B: I'm gonna have my dad taking pictures of stuff at the house now.
[00:32:04] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:32:04] Speaker B: You're saying it to you, Mark.
[00:32:06] Speaker C: I can do it. But could.
[00:32:07] Speaker A: You know, when you. When you get your kids to leave the house? Right. I'm going to speak from experience.
My kids left the house, but my kids stuff didn't leave the house.
[00:32:17] Speaker C: It's funny how that happens.
[00:32:18] Speaker A: So Blake, you know, my son Blake, when Blake left, he was out. And within, I'm gonna say, 45 minutes, Tony had turned that room into a sauna room in her room. And his stuff was then pushed into this closet. And then there was a message sent out saying, you have this many days to get your stuff out of the closet. And he did it.
[00:32:40] Speaker B: Tony is hard or.
[00:32:42] Speaker A: Yeah. So then he called me one day and he said, hey, dad, looking for an old laptop or a hard drive. We believe the four bitcoin that we mined back in high school is on this hard drive or this laptop.
[00:32:56] Speaker B: Oh, my.
[00:32:57] Speaker A: I said, I haven't seen it.
[00:32:59] Speaker C: Yeah.
Tony, where'd you put that laptop?
[00:33:04] Speaker A: Unfortunately, I haven't seen it.
[00:33:07] Speaker B: Bugger.
[00:33:08] Speaker A: But, you know, when your kids leave behind all these things, there's. There's a sentimental value to them. The kids don't want them, but, you know, like old Barbie dolls, old toys. Is there value in that stuff?
[00:33:20] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, some of the old Barbie stuff. You know, once again, you know, age and conditions, the big thing, I mean, like the ball cards and the Barbies, I mean, you get back in the 60s and 70s, and my kids aren't that old. Yeah, right. But, you know, and you get in. I mean, some of the early days.
[00:33:37] Speaker A: They don't have any heads left on them.
[00:33:40] Speaker C: Pulled the hair out, but. But yeah, I mean, they have value and some of the clothes have a lot of value, and it just boils down to a lot of condition and age. And when it comes to kind of the collectible type stuff, typically, I threw.
[00:33:53] Speaker A: Away all of the old metal Tonka trucks, dozers, and I had all of those from when? Even from back when I was a kid and I got tired of around. I threw them away. And somebody said, you dumbass. Like, some of those, if they're in great shape, are worth, I guess, pretty good money.
[00:34:11] Speaker C: Yeah. I mean, if they're really to a.
[00:34:13] Speaker B: Buyer who wants it to a certain extent. That's why hoarder houses exist.
[00:34:17] Speaker C: Right, right.
[00:34:18] Speaker B: All so many people have gotten into the. Oh, I need to hold on to this because it may have value someday. And it just keeps piling up.
[00:34:25] Speaker A: Oh, I see the post. Yesterday it was breaking news. A man who had saved a 2x4 for 37 years finally used it.
[00:34:35] Speaker B: You're on fire today.
[00:34:37] Speaker A: That's a good one.
Oh, well, Mark, I appreciate you taking your time out. So social media. Do you have social media for people.
[00:34:46] Speaker C: To check out on Facebook, Huber Auctions. Huber Auction Group, Instagram. Yeah, it's. I forget, I'm not good at Instagram.
Yeah, that's humor, something.
[00:34:56] Speaker A: Tick tock.
[00:34:57] Speaker C: No time.
[00:34:58] Speaker A: What about lemon?
[00:34:58] Speaker C: Are you on lemon lemonade? Yeah, Facebook, like I said, if you want to join our. Our email group, we're happy to put you on that.
[00:35:09] Speaker A: Oh, wait, there it is right there.
[00:35:11] Speaker C: It is right here. It is right here on the. On the technical.
[00:35:15] Speaker A: Do you see it right?
[00:35:17] Speaker C: Huberauxgroup.com happens by magic.
[00:35:21] Speaker A: No, I don't. I do it too.
[00:35:24] Speaker C: But. But yeah. And we got our building there in Greenfield, so if anybody needs anything, they can holler. Yep.
[00:35:30] Speaker B: Do you have your final question?
[00:35:33] Speaker C: Oh, is this like. No, no.
[00:35:35] Speaker A: I mean, I have. I have one for my tasting tequila with bread.
[00:35:39] Speaker B: But we've asked a few guests a question.
[00:35:43] Speaker A: Remind me, because I guess, I don't know.
[00:35:45] Speaker B: And you have a drink with somebody.
[00:35:47] Speaker A: Yeah, I do that. Okay. So you want me to do it?
[00:35:49] Speaker B: Let's go.
[00:35:50] Speaker A: Okay. So on. On my tasting tequila with Brad, I do this all the time with these brand owners that bring this out. So if you could sit down and have A drink, any drink that you like, whatever your your go to drink is. I think it's tequila because that's what you said. So if you could sit down and have a tequila with anybody in the world, past, present, current, family, famous, friend, foe, who would you want to sit down and have a drink with?
[00:36:16] Speaker C: Man, that's a tough question.
[00:36:19] Speaker B: If you'd watch our show, you knew this question was coming.
[00:36:23] Speaker A: And here's the thing, I participate and wasn't sure what Brian was talking about.
[00:36:28] Speaker C: So I guess you gotta wait till the end.
But I never made it past the last.
[00:36:33] Speaker B: It's a crapshoot.
[00:36:34] Speaker A: Yeah, well, I do it to talk to people who have created a brand. And this story here was amazing because he had lost his mom.
And when we talked through it, he said I did everything I did because his mom and made me, he made me tear up as he talked about it.
[00:36:53] Speaker C: Right.
[00:36:53] Speaker A: So sometimes it's very sentimental of who you would want to share with. But I had one person say Hemingway, they'd want to sit down with Hemingway. So. Yeah, really, truly anybody that you'd want to sit down, have a drink with and go ask him any question that you wanted?
[00:37:07] Speaker C: Yeah, I mean, probably off the cuff now, being the age I am and, and everything. I mean, I'd probably like to sit back down with my grandpa, with the world, experiences I've had and, you know, just his experience. And it'd be interesting in today's times to sit down and number one, answer grandparents.
[00:37:23] Speaker A: Because if you think you, you always idolized your grandparents.
[00:37:26] Speaker B: Yeah, right.
[00:37:26] Speaker A: I idolized my grandpa and he died when he was 54 years old.
And like I did everything with that man. And today I would love to sit down and ask him questions, you know.
[00:37:37] Speaker C: Knowing what you know now. Yeah, you know, yeah, that's what I.
[00:37:40] Speaker A: Think when he died or not, you know, so. Yeah, yeah, that's a great answer, Brian Hoover. No, no, you're not gonna answer the question. You don't have nobody.
[00:37:51] Speaker C: Come on, you put me on the spot.
[00:37:52] Speaker A: I gave you mine.
[00:37:54] Speaker B: Well, see, now you throwing on grandparent and. Yeah, I mean, that' a great answer, Jake Query had a great answer, which was Jesus Christ.
[00:38:02] Speaker A: Which is a good crazy answer to you. That's a good one.
[00:38:06] Speaker B: To me that, that particular answer is like somewhat obvious to those like myself who are Catholic. Like, okay, that, that seems to be really logical person. But I, I guess I don't really think in terms like that.
I'm maybe more celebrity focused. Not that Jesus wouldn't be a celebrity, but, but I, I did have a pretty decent relationship with my grandfather, but I don't know that I would choose my grandfather.
[00:38:34] Speaker A: So he ain't mad at you?
[00:38:36] Speaker B: I know he's like, pick Elvis dude.
I, somewhat, maybe a little more celebrity related. I'd, I'd want to do somebody like a, like a Michael Jordan. I think it'd be pretty cool.
[00:38:48] Speaker A: That'd be cool.
[00:38:48] Speaker B: Yeah. You know he's got quite a story and you know people like that who are still alive and super famous. Of course it's like I want to sit down with them and hear the real story, not the, not the, that they tell on interviews. Yeah. Like, like really? Did you and Scottie Pippen really get along?
[00:39:09] Speaker A: That's what I was gonna say.
[00:39:11] Speaker B: Biggest jackass you've ever played with.
[00:39:14] Speaker A: Like. And I've heard the opposite. I heard that it's Pippen.
[00:39:17] Speaker B: You know, post basketball life, Pippin is, is a little, little crazy.
[00:39:24] Speaker A: I don't want to get sued but I'm going to tell you the story. A friend of mine, we started a mortgage company together called PM Mortgage Corp. Was a non conforming lending company out of Glen Ellen, Illinois. Right. The Schomburg line. And Mark Armstrong was one of our partners. And Mark before that came from a, like a, like an Avco Financial like people that did 90 days same as cash and all these really crazy loans.
[00:39:46] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:39:46] Speaker A: And he had to go to the stadium and repossess Scotty Pippen's fur coat.
[00:39:53] Speaker B: Oh my goodness.
[00:39:54] Speaker A: A full on man for.
[00:39:56] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:39:57] Speaker A: Because he never paid the bill.
[00:39:59] Speaker C: No. Can you sneak in the locker room to get. No. Like Mr. Pippin, I'm gonna walk him in.
[00:40:05] Speaker A: And then security escorted him in and then there's like a whole.
[00:40:08] Speaker B: Can we wait till the game starts? He won't be here.
[00:40:10] Speaker C: No.
[00:40:11] Speaker A: There was a whole confrontation and Mark was a little shorter than I am and a little more rotund than I used to be.
[00:40:17] Speaker B: Six foot eight.
[00:40:18] Speaker A: Yeah. He's like gonna dribble him.
[00:40:20] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:40:21] Speaker A: Oh, but he left with his fur coat.
[00:40:23] Speaker B: All right.
[00:40:24] Speaker A: That's fantastic.
[00:40:25] Speaker B: You know what's funny is you and I do all of the episodes and we may continue to ask this to our guests. I could just continue and have a different person every time. So this week it's Michael Jordan. There you go. That's fantastic. Mark, thanks for coming on.
[00:40:38] Speaker C: Thank you.
[00:40:38] Speaker A: Jennifer, thanks for answering the Facebook ad. That was awesome. That's where Mark answered on the Facebook and I was like dude, why did I not him going in?
[00:40:47] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:40:47] Speaker A: This was a great segment. Thank you.
[00:40:49] Speaker C: Guys appreciate it to you out there.
[00:40:50] Speaker B: Thanks for watching Real Estate Makes Us Drink, subscribe, leave a comment and share. We always appreciate it. We'll see you next time.
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[00:41:04] Speaker C: Already clicked off dot com. Oh.
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[00:41:13] Speaker C: All right, it's.
[00:41:14] Speaker A: There should be, like, video end cards playing right now anyway. Right?
[00:41:17] Speaker C: You put that on the ticker. You can put that ticker when you get it up.
[00:41:20] Speaker A: So you can click on this show or that show and watch it. It's pretty fun. Cheers, everybody.
[00:41:25] Speaker B: Cheers.
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