Marguerite Colby

Auction Marketing Strategist, Nashville, TN

Marguerite spends her working hours inside real estate auction catalogs, sale terms and county recorder sites, looking for the details that make a lot sheet trustworthy at a glance. She writes about what a bidder needs to see before registering and what a seller needs to see before signing. She holds no auctioneer license and gives no opinion on the value of any property.

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Subjects Marguerite covers

Auction lot pages
Bidder registration flow
Sale-day copy
Estate and probate sale marketing
Local search for auction firms

Articles

Published on the GetHomeAuctionSites blog

Auction basics · September 3, 2026 · 11 min readHow Real Estate Auction Sales Actually Work: A Plain-Language GuideA real estate auction sale moves through registration, bidding and closing on a fixed timeline. Here is what a first-time bidder or seller should expect at each stage.Read the article

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Marguerite Colby is an editorial persona writing for GetHomeAuctionSites. Personas hold no professional licenses and nothing they write is advice for a specific situation. GetHomeAuctionSites is not a licensed auctioneer, real estate broker, appraiser or attorney.

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