Family Business Feature
We are excited to share that our family was recently featured in an article by the Sentinel-Tribune. Don Rose Realty and Auction was highlighted and we were recognized as a power couple and growing business in the Toledo, OH area.
Posted: Monday, February 25, 2019 1:56 pm
By Bill Ryan, Sentinel-Tribune Staff Writer
Don and Kim Rose have worked together in one form or another for a quarter of a century.
They joined forces at the altar nearly 26 years ago and formed their realty business 20 years ago in 1999.
He said he met his bride while they were both in auction school together and “off we went.”
Don Rose Realty and Auction operates at 241 S. Main St. in Bowling Green. They have seen the business transition now more prominently in the online auction business, where once it was mostly gathering on a Saturday at a home, barn or other onsite to auction off the goods and/or property,
Now countless more individuals participate in the sale via their home computers or smart phones.
Their children, daughter Taylor and son Connor are also now active in the business along with auctioneer and longtime employee Denver Geitgey.
“In previous years, we would stand outside and listen for bids and pray for good weather,” Don Rose said. “Now, one call does it all to arrange it. Two or three people go to the site, take pictures and catalog all the items in the sale. We post it online and the auction is open for five days.”
He said they still hold numerous estate sales and sell all the contents. While the real estate can be sold at auction, they still have a lucrative realty operation which sells homes by listings as well.
Agricultural land is often still sold through an onsite auction, as well as some other real estate properties.
“The nice part of the online auctions is the data base which extends across most of the states and makes it possible to reach a lot more buyers. Where we might have had 30 to 50 people outside at an auction, now we have thousands more people and variety of interests,” Don Rose said.
The company has also recently acquired a federal firearms license, which allows them to transport firearms and do background checks on potential buyers of the numerous guns which are sold.
A typical estate sale would include the larger and more valuable items sold individually, with other items grouped into lots.
“We often will have up to five auctions running in any one week,” Taylor Rose said.
The online auction system also works well for the sellers. Because of the large data base, most of the lots all sell. Any one auction might have anywhere between 50 and 400 lots.
Each member of the staff has a strength and sector, but they all work together. Don Rose and Geitgey do most of the realty sales, with Geitgey having a strong focus on the agricultural sales; Taylor Rose does most of the online work; Kim Rose is the broker for the company. Coonor’s role with the company is property management and acquisitions.
“We all wear a lot of hats,” Don Rose said.
Now that you know more about our family and our company, we hope that you support our local business and others in the area by bidding in some of our many online auctions. If you are in the market for real estate in the Toledo, OH area, are considering downsizing, or have any questions about estate settlement solutions, contact us and we can help.
Power Couple
Roses’s realty business continues to bloom
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Photo by J.D.
Pooley/Sentinel-Tribune
Don Rose (from left), Taylor Rose and Kim Rose
of Don Rose Auction and Reality.
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Posted: Monday, February 25, 2019 1:56 pm
By Bill Ryan, Sentinel-Tribune Staff Writer
Don and Kim Rose have worked together in one form or another for a quarter of a century.
They joined forces at the altar nearly 26 years ago and formed their realty business 20 years ago in 1999.
He said he met his bride while they were both in auction school together and “off we went.”
Don Rose Realty and Auction operates at 241 S. Main St. in Bowling Green. They have seen the business transition now more prominently in the online auction business, where once it was mostly gathering on a Saturday at a home, barn or other onsite to auction off the goods and/or property,
Now countless more individuals participate in the sale via their home computers or smart phones.
Their children, daughter Taylor and son Connor are also now active in the business along with auctioneer and longtime employee Denver Geitgey.
“In previous years, we would stand outside and listen for bids and pray for good weather,” Don Rose said. “Now, one call does it all to arrange it. Two or three people go to the site, take pictures and catalog all the items in the sale. We post it online and the auction is open for five days.”
He said they still hold numerous estate sales and sell all the contents. While the real estate can be sold at auction, they still have a lucrative realty operation which sells homes by listings as well.
Agricultural land is often still sold through an onsite auction, as well as some other real estate properties.
“The nice part of the online auctions is the data base which extends across most of the states and makes it possible to reach a lot more buyers. Where we might have had 30 to 50 people outside at an auction, now we have thousands more people and variety of interests,” Don Rose said.
The company has also recently acquired a federal firearms license, which allows them to transport firearms and do background checks on potential buyers of the numerous guns which are sold.
A typical estate sale would include the larger and more valuable items sold individually, with other items grouped into lots.
“We often will have up to five auctions running in any one week,” Taylor Rose said.
The online auction system also works well for the sellers. Because of the large data base, most of the lots all sell. Any one auction might have anywhere between 50 and 400 lots.
Each member of the staff has a strength and sector, but they all work together. Don Rose and Geitgey do most of the realty sales, with Geitgey having a strong focus on the agricultural sales; Taylor Rose does most of the online work; Kim Rose is the broker for the company. Coonor’s role with the company is property management and acquisitions.
“We all wear a lot of hats,” Don Rose said.
Now that you know more about our family and our company, we hope that you support our local business and others in the area by bidding in some of our many online auctions. If you are in the market for real estate in the Toledo, OH area, are considering downsizing, or have any questions about estate settlement solutions, contact us and we can help.
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