Kevin's Unfiltered Archive
Management. Sobriety. Family. Automotive. Food.
Whatever's on my mind and worth putting down.
Titles, Branding and Paperwork
The car is not the product. The title is the product. A vehicle without a clean, transferable title is a pile of metal you cannot legally sell. Buyers know this. Platforms kno…
Compliance and Business Self-Defense
I started my first automotive business without a plan or a license. I was buying cars off the street, scrubbing them down, and parking them in front of my house. I put "For Sa…
Physical Auctions
The first car my family ever sold at auction crossed the block at the Buffalo Auto Auction, down by the railway tracks on Broadway. My father had spent three 12-hour days on t…
Autura
Thirteen years ago I helped co-found Auction Simplified. We built it around what we knew; car dealers. Dealers needed a better way to run auctions. We built the tools they nee…
Dealer-Only Auctions
I had a dealer license on Bailey Avenue. What I didn’t have was any business buying in a Dealer-Only Auction.