RMEB Auctioneer David Whitley Elected CAA President

David P. Whitley, President and CEO of Rocky Mountain Estate Brokers Inc. was elected President of the Colorado Auctioneers Association at its 2009 Convention recently held in Denver, Colorado. Whitley has served as a board member and officer of the CAA for the past eight years. Whitley stated, “It is an honor to be elected to serve as President of the Colorado Auctioneers Association. I know the many benefits I have received from my membership in CAA.”

The CAA has over 140 member auctioneers in Colorado. Its members subscribe to a code of ethics that protects consumers and helps to regulate the business. The CAA promotes its members and their auctions at www.coloradoauctioneers.org. It also offers numerous educational opportunities for its members so they can stay in the lead in the Auction profession in Colorado. It also works to increase the use of the auction method of marketing as a time sensitive, fair and open way to market assets. Whitley said, “I hope to further promote the benefits of membership in the CAA and the auction method of marketing here in Colorado.”

Rocky Mountain Estate Brokers Inc. is a full service Auction & Real Estate company that conducts successful Auctions, estate sales & liquidations in Denver, Boulder, Fort Collins, Greeley and the entire states of Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska onsite or at our Auction house located in Eaton Colorado using award winning Auctioneers. We auction and sell real estate and personal property including industrial equipment, vehicles, trucks, tools, antiques, coins, fine art, firearms, cars and complete estates. Check out our websites at www.whitleyauction.com and www.rmebrealty.com. Call us at any time at 970-454-1010 or toll free at 866-888-4875 to learn more about our successful auctions.

RMEB Auctioneers and staff attend National Auctioneers Association Conference and Show in Nashville Tennessee.

Rocky Mountain Estate Brokers Inc. Auctioneers and staff recently attended the National Auctioneers Association Conference and Show in Nashville Tennessee. While there, they attended educational offerings on live online auctions, promoting and marketing real estate auctions, ring man skills, employing innovative marketing techniques and more. Auction industry leaders taught these classes. RMEB Auctioneer Casey Giddings CAI, from Fort Collins, Colorado stated, “This is the one place professional auctioneers can come to not only learn about new auction techniques but to share what works for us as well”.

David P. Whitley CAI CES, RMEB’s lead Auctioneer, was one of five auctioneers chosen to sit on a panel discussing ways to start and build a successful auction business. He said, “Our auction company has been attending state and national auction association events for years. We have learned from some of the best in the business. When we have the opportunity to share what works for us with newer members of this profession we consider it an honor and a privilege.” Over 1400 NAA members and their families attended the convention.

Both Giddings and Whitley competed in the International Auctioneer Contest. Contest chairman Paul Behr CAI stated, “This group of contestants makes up some of the best auctioneers in the world”. While neither came home with the Champion’s trophy, both did very well in the competition. Giddings said, “Auctioneering in this contest is a very good way for me to continually work on being a better auctioneer. It would be nice to win but it is nicer to know I am always becoming better at what I do.”

Rocky Mountain Estate Brokers Inc. and its sister company Rocky Mountain Estate Brokers Realty LLC provide quality auction and auctioneering services to the Rocky Mountain Region. Through its staff, they service Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska clients that desire professional auction services and sales for real estate and personal property. RMEB conducts many auctions at its 20,000 square foot Eaton Auction Center centrally located in downtown Eaton, Colorado. There they sell tools, machinery, cars, trucks, antiques, firearms, fine art and more. RMEB’s auction services extend beyond its main areas of Fort Collins, Greeley, Loveland, Boulder, Longmont and Denver, Colorado into Wyoming, Nebraska and beyond.

They offer live, real-time internet bidding on most of their auctions and have sold items to buyers from all over the USA, Mexico, Canada, Germany and other countries. Auctioneers David P. Whitley, Catherine "Casey" L Giddings and Robert L. "Bob" Johnson are all graduates of the Certified Auctioneers Institute and maintain the prestigious CAI designation. RMEB can be contacted through its websites at www.whitleyauction.com or www.rmebrealty.com or by telephone at 970-454-1010.

RMEB Auctioneers to Compete for International Auctioneer Championship Title

Fort Collins, Colorado may soon be the home of the world’s best auctioneer if David Whitley or Casey Giddings have anything to say about it. Casey and David will be joining over 90 auctioneers from across the world in Nashville at the 59th International Auctioneers Conference and Show to compete in the 20th International Auctioneer Championship competition. The male and female winners of this competition are regarded by the auction industry as being the best in the world.

These competitors will be judged on their presentation, chant, voice quality, body language and other elements of effective auctioneering. There is also an interview segment of the competition that participants will be judged on. The finalists will compete on Friday, July 11, 2008 before over 1,000 of their peers at the Renaissance Nashville Hotel and Nashville Convention Center in Nashville, TN. The winners will receive a $10,000 cash prize, trophy and become the spokespersons for the National Auctioneers Association before the media and state auctioneer associations across the country. One of the highlights of their reign as IAC champions include auctioneering at the St. Jude Toy Auction for the patients of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. The IAC Champions sell toys donated by the National Auctioneers Association to patients who use play money to bid on the toys.

Rocky Mountain Estate Brokers Inc. and its sister company Rocky Mountain Estate Brokers Realty LLC provide quality auction and auctioneering services to the Rocky Mountain Region. Through its staff, they service Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska clients that desire professional auction services and sales for real estate and personal property. RMEB conducts many auctions at its 20,000 square foot Eaton Auction Center centrally located in downtown Eaton, CO. There they sell tools, machinery, cars, trucks, antiques, firearms, fine art and more. RMEB’s auction services extend beyond its main areas of Fort Collins, Greeley, Loveland, Boulder, Longmont and Denver, Colorado into Wyoming, Nebraska and beyond.

They offer live, real-time internet bidding on most of their auctions and have sold items to buyers from all over the USA, Mexico, Canada, Germany and other countries. Auctioneers David P. Whitley, Catherine "Casey" L Giddings and Robert L. "Bob" Johnson are all graduates of the Certified Auctioneers Institute and maintain the prestigious CAI designation. RMEB can be contacted through its websites at www.whitleyauction.com or www.rmebrealty.com or by telephone at 970-454-1010.