Phil Bonnie
Partner & Associate Broker
Dudley Resources · Real estate auction and brokerage
Residential, commercial, land, probate and delinquent tax sales across Virginia.
Sales figures reported through the MLS and published by Homes.com, a CoStar company. Look it up yourself →
Licensed Real Estate Broker · Certified Probate Expert · DPOR 0225243246
What brings you here?
Every listing goes out on
For owners
A listing asks the market a question. An auction makes it answer.
A list price is a guess. You pick a number, wait, and find out months later whether it was wrong. An auction inverts that: you set the date, the buyers come to you on that date, and competition between them sets the price.
What the traditional path costs you
Four months of mortgage, taxes, insurance, utilities, lawn and risk — paid by you, before a cent comes back.
Overpriced on day one, stale by day forty-five, discounted by day ninety. Every reduction tells buyers to wait for the next one.
Strangers in your house on someone else's schedule, most of whom were never going to buy.
One offer at a time, in private, against a buyer who knows exactly how long it's been sitting.
What the auction method does instead
Figures published by Dudley Resources from its own auction results.
Averages published by Dudley Resources against local market time on market.
Side by side
| Traditional listing | Auction | |
|---|---|---|
| Price set by | You, in advance | The market, on the day |
| Time to sale | 127 days average | 10–45 days |
| Closing date | Whenever | Fixed, 30–45 days |
| Sales commission | Paid by you | Paid by the buyer |
| Marketing cost | Varies | $0 to you |
| Showings | Open-ended | Scheduled, then done |
| Negotiation | One buyer at a time | Buyers against each other |
| Your floor | None once you list | Your reserve, which you set |
The part sellers don't believe until they read it
It costs you nothing to sell. The 10% buyer's premium is added on top of the high bid and paid by the buyer. The marketing fee due from the seller at settlement is $0. You are not responsible for agent commissions at closing.
And you are never forced to sell. You set a minimum reserve. If bidding doesn't reach it, the property doesn't transfer. This is not an absolute sale.
Standard terms on Dudley Resources residential auction engagements. Terms vary by property — Phil confirms yours in writing before anything is signed.
Two ways Phil structures a sale
You set the minimum acceptable price, built from comparables, inspection reports and market data. It sells only if the reserve is met. Maximum protection, sold as-is, no cost to you.
Inspections and appraisals completed before bidding opens, terms written so financed buyers can compete with cash. Dudley Resources sold over $3 million this way in a single quarter.
Where your property actually gets seen
- Every major MLS in Virginia, plus Bright MLS reaching into the Northeast
- Distributed to more than 100 third-party listing sites
- LoopNet, CoStar, Crexi and Land.com for commercial and land
- Targeted email campaigns to an existing bidder database
- Nationwide paid social aimed at qualified buyers, not browsers
- Broker outreach and cooperating agent networks
The campaign, week by week
- Week 1–2Launch and awareness
Professional photography and video, the property information packet, MLS listing with auction designation, social campaign live.
- Week 3–4Momentum
Targeted advertising to qualified buyers, broker outreach and cooperation, showings and inspections, press and media.
- Week 5–6Closing push
Final advertising blitz, reminders to every registered bidder, last-chance tours, auction day.
- ThenSettlement
Contract signed on auction day, deposit held, closing on the published date.
What would it take to beat your listing?
A listing looks like the higher number until you subtract the commission and the months of carrying it. Move the sliders and see what an auction would actually have to hammer at to leave you in the same place.
An illustration, not a valuation or a promise. Carrying costs, commissions and results vary. Phil will run your actual numbers.
Phil, in his own words
What Phil sells
Single family, multi-family, rentals, inherited and estate property.
Retail, office, flex, special-use assets, multi-parcel and portfolio sales.
Farms, timber, waterfront, subdividable parcels, landlocked tracts.
Inherited and trust property, partition, receivership and delinquent tax sales.
Questions owners actually ask
Isn't an auction a fire sale?
No. That's the myth the method has to fight. The most valuable objects on earth — a $450 million painting, a $142 million car, a $126 million house — are all sold at auction, because when the asset is worth something, competition finds the ceiling faster than negotiation does. What an auction removes is the discount a patient buyer extracts from a seller who's been waiting four months.
What if bidding comes in low?
Then it doesn't sell. You approve a reserve before marketing begins, and the property does not transfer below it. Around 92% of auctions do reach or beat the reserve, but the protection is there precisely for the ones that don't.
What does it cost me?
On standard residential engagements: no sales commission from the seller, and a $0 marketing fee at settlement. The buyer pays a 10% premium on top of the winning bid. There is a postponement or cancellation fee if you pull the property after the campaign has been built — that's the one cost to know about going in.
Do I have to accept the high bid?
Every offer is presented to you, and you retain the right to accept or reject anything below your reserve. You can also accept a strong pre-auction offer if one comes in.
Can buyers use financing?
Yes, on finance-friendly sales — inspections and appraisals are done before bidding, and the terms are written so a financed buyer can compete. That widens your buyer pool considerably over a cash-only auction.
Will it still go on the MLS?
Yes. The auction runs alongside a full MLS listing, not instead of one. You get the traditional audience plus a national bidder base.
What if my property needs work?
That's often the best case for auction. Property sells as-is, where-is, with a due diligence packet disclosing condition. Buyers price the work in rather than using it to renegotiate after inspection.
How long am I committed?
The standard residential listing runs 180 days, which gives room for the campaign and a second sale date if one is ever needed. The auction itself is a 10 to 45 day campaign inside that window.
Request an auction value opinion
Not a form letter. A written read on your specific property: what it would likely bring at auction, the reserve Phil would recommend, what you'd net, and whether auction is the right method at all. If a traditional listing serves you better, he'll say so — he holds that license too.
Inherited property · Probate
When a family inherits a house, nobody hands you the instructions.
Probate arrives at the worst possible time — in the middle of grief, with deadlines, paperwork, and a property that still has to be insured, secured and paid for. Phil is a Certified Probate Expert. He handles the property side of it, so the family can focus on everything else.
What Phil takes off your plate
Rekeying, vacant-property insurance, utilities and upkeep while the estate is open — so the house doesn’t lose value while the paperwork moves.
What the heirs keep, what goes to an estate sale or the firm’s personal property auctions, what is donated, and the final clean-out. Coordinated for you, not left to the family.
Not every inherited house is free and clear. Payoffs and liens are identified and handled before the sale — not discovered at the closing table.
Missing heirs, clouded title, co-owners who don’t agree — worked through with the estate’s attorney.
The method that fits the estate, on a timeline that fits the court’s.
Every option, with the numbers
Most families are told there is one way to sell. Phil prepares a seller net sheet for each option, so you can compare what the estate actually keeps — not just the headline price.
A fixed date, competitive bidding, and on most engagements no sales commission to the estate. Often the fairest route when heirs disagree.
The open market, when time allows and the property shows well.
A direct sale to an investor when speed matters more than top dollar.
Monthly income for the heirs instead of a single payment, where the estate allows it.
Five simple steps
- Strategize
Understand the family’s goals and the estate’s deadlines before anything is decided.
- Schedule providers
Attorney, appraiser, clean-out, contractors — one call from Phil instead of ten from you.
- Organize
Documents, belongings, keys and insurance, all in one place.
- Prepare for sale
Only the repairs that raise the net. Nothing that doesn’t.
- Market and sell
The right method, on a schedule that works with the court.
A team for every task
- Trusted probate and estate attorneys
- CPAs and financial advisors for insurance, pensions, 401(k)s and tax filings
- An ASA-certified appraiser on staff
- Estate sales and personal property auctions
- Clean-out and cleaning crews
- Contractors, home inspectors and foundation specialists
- Senior move management for a surviving spouse
Phil works alongside attorneys representing families, trust officers, financial planners and personal representatives. If the estate already has an attorney, he works with them.
Phil is a licensed real estate broker, not an attorney, and does not give legal advice. Anything legal goes through the estate’s lawyer.
The first things to do with the property
- Secure it — rekey the locks, and post a no-trespassing notice if it’s vacant
- Call the insurer. A standard policy may not cover a vacant house; ask about a vacant-property rider
- Keep the utilities, mortgage and property taxes paid while the estate is open
- Don’t clear anything out until the heirs have decided what they’re keeping
- Speak with a probate attorney and a probate-experienced real estate professional before deciding when to sell
Questions families ask
Can we sell the house before probate is finished?
Often, yes — but it depends on the will and on the authority the executor or administrator has been given. The estate’s attorney confirms that. Phil plans the sale around it, so nothing is marketed before the estate can legally sign.
Do we have to fix it up first?
Usually not. Phil will tell you which few repairs actually raise the net and which ones don’t. Many inherited houses sell best as-is, especially at auction.
What happens to everything inside?
The heirs choose what they keep first. Items of value can go to an estate sale or the firm’s personal property auctions; the rest is donated or cleared. Phil coordinates all of it.
The heirs don’t agree. What now?
It’s more common than anyone admits. A public auction with a reserve everyone signs off on is often the fairest way through, because nobody has to trust anyone’s number but the market’s.
The house has a mortgage or liens on it.
That’s normal. Payoffs are identified early and settled out of the sale proceeds at closing, and Phil can help keep payments current in the meantime so the balance doesn’t grow.
What does it cost to talk to Phil?
Nothing. The consultation is free and there is no obligation.
Why families call early
There is no rush to sell. There is a reason to talk early — because the expensive mistakes almost all happen in the first few weeks, before anyone has advised the family.
Taxes, insurance, utilities and upkeep run every month the estate is open, and they come out of what the heirs eventually receive.
Families spend thousands on work that doesn’t move the sale price. Phil will tell you which few things are worth doing — and which aren’t — before you spend anything.
Once belongings are gone, they’re gone. What had value and what should have been kept is worth knowing first.
A sale timed against the estate’s schedule delays the closing, and sometimes costs the buyer.
The first conversation costs nothing and commits you to nothing. Phil listens first. If the family isn’t ready to think about the property yet, he’ll say so and check back later.
Tell Phil where things stand
Leave your details and Phil will call you himself — not an assistant, not an automated email. After the call he sends whatever actually helps your situation: the probate checklist, net sheets for each option, or an introduction to an attorney or CPA if that’s what’s needed.
For buyers & bidders
Buy at your number, not the seller's.
In a normal sale you're bidding blind against offers you'll never see, from a seller who may or may not be serious. At auction everything is on the table: the terms, the deposit, the closing date, the due diligence, and every competing bid.
Why buyers keep coming back
- You see exactly what others bid — no hidden negotiation, no highest-and-best guessing game
- The seller is committed. Nobody runs an auction campaign and then decides not to sell
- A comprehensive due diligence packet before you bid: plats, disclosures, title work, the contract
- Everyone competes on identical terms — no favors, no back channel
- 30 to 45 day closing, known in advance
- Off-market opportunities before they reach the public listing sites
- At multi-property events you see the whole offering in one place, on one day
87% of auction buyers purchase again within 24 months. The process builds confidence once you've been through it once.
How a sale works
- Register
Create a bidder account and clear the deposit requirement published on the property.
- Do your diligence
The packet is posted before bidding opens. Inspect at the open house or by appointment. Ask Phil anything you can't find in it.
- Set your walk-away number
Decide it before the clock starts, not during. The discipline is the whole advantage.
- Bid
Online, in person, or both at once on simulcast sales. The clock and the high bid are visible to everyone.
- Close
Sign, wire the deposit, close on the published date.
Auction doesn't have to mean cash. On finance-friendly sales the inspections and appraisal are completed before bidding opens and the terms are written for financed buyers, so you're not automatically outgunned by an investor with a checkbook.
Buyer questions
What is a buyer's premium?
A percentage — typically 10% — added to your winning bid to form the total purchase price. It's how the sale is paid for instead of a seller commission. Factor it into your walk-away number before you bid: a $300,000 hammer is a $330,000 purchase.
Can I inspect before bidding?
Yes, and you should. There are scheduled open houses and appointments available. What you can't do is make the purchase contingent on an inspection afterward — the diligence happens first, which is exactly why it's provided up front.
What if I'm the only bidder?
Then you may buy it at the reserve. It happens, and it's one of the quieter reasons experienced buyers watch auction calendars closely.
Is everything sold as-is?
Generally yes, with condition disclosed in the due diligence packet. Price your work in before you bid rather than expecting to renegotiate after.
What deposit do I need?
It's published on each property and must be cleared at registration. It's applied to the purchase price at closing.
Question about a specific property?
Text Phil the address. He'd rather answer before you bid than after.
Text Phil about a property Get told about new auctions firstDelinquent tax auctions
The sales most buyers never hear about until they're over.
When Virginia property taxes go unpaid long enough, the locality goes to court and the property is sold at public auction. Dudley Resources runs these sales for localities in partnership with TACS. They are public, they are legitimate, and almost nobody is watching them.
How a tax sale reaches auction
Why experienced buyers watch this calendar
Retail buyers don't know these exist. The bidder pool is a fraction of what the same property would draw on the open market.
A locality isn't holding out for a number. The purpose of the sale is to clear the debt and return the parcel to the tax rolls.
Vacant lots, landlocked strips, heir property, small acreage and the occasional building — the kind of parcel that never gets a sign in the yard.
These are judicial sales. The process is defined, the timeline is published, and the sale is confirmed by a court.
How to get in
- Get on the notification list
Sale dates are published on a schedule, not on demand. If you find out the week of, you've already lost your diligence window.
- Pull the parcel apart before you bid
Location, access, zoning, whether it's buildable, what's still attached to it. The auction terms and available documents are published for each sale.
- Register and clear the deposit
Each sale publishes its own deposit and bidding terms. Read them — they are not identical across localities.
- Bid, then wait for confirmation
A judicial sale isn't final at the fall of the hammer. Court confirmation follows, and the timeline is set out in the sale terms.
Where people get hurt. Buying a parcel with no legal access. Assuming a lot is buildable because it's flat. Missing an easement, a covenant or an occupant. The bargain is real, and so is the homework — every tax sale is sold as-is, where-is.
Phil would rather talk you out of a bad parcel than sell you one. Text him the parcel number before you bid.
Get the tax sale calendar
Upcoming sales, the counties they're in, and the parcels worth a second look — before the bidding opens.
Send me tax sale notices Current tax auctions Read the full tax sale FAQ Text Phil about a parcelIf you're on the other side of it
If your own property is heading toward a tax sale, that is a different conversation and there is usually more time than people think. Talk to Phil about your options before the sale date is set.
I own a property in troubleFor localities and counsel
Dudley Resources conducts delinquent real estate tax sales for Virginia localities start to finish, in partnership with TACS.
Locality & counsel servicesFor counsel & institutions
When a file needs a sale date.
Your problem usually isn't finding a buyer. It's a defensible process, a documented timeline and a date you can put in front of a court, a committee or a beneficiary who has stopped being patient.
Who he works with
Probate, estate, divorce, partition, receivership and court-ordered sales, with an auditable marketing record and a documented public sale.
Trust and estate property handled end to end — valuation, securing it, clean-out, sale and the paper trail your file needs.
Delinquent real estate tax sales run with TACS for Virginia localities, start to finish.
Surplus property, portfolio and multi-parcel dispositions, bankruptcy sales.
Why the method fits a file
- A public, transparent sale that stands up to a fairness challenge
- A defined date — no open-ended marketing period to explain to the court
- Documented exposure: MLS, 100+ listing sites, LoopNet, CoStar, Crexi, Land.com
- Multi-parcel and portfolio sales handled in a single event
- Real property and personal property cleared together when an estate needs both
- Broker opinions of value and expert witness testimony where a matter is contested
The firm also handles probate support around the sale itself: clean-out services, help locating counsel and CPAs, appraisals of personal property and equipment, and clearing liens before the property goes to sale.
Send a file
Probate & estate servicesFor agents
Every agent on your street sells the same way. That's the opportunity.
Auction is a second product you can put in front of a seller who isn't biting on a listing — the expired, the tired landlord, the estate that's been arguing for a year, the property nobody can price. You don't lose the client. You gain an answer.
What it does for your business
- You keep your normal commission — referring agent, cooperating agent or listing agent
- Marketing is paid for by the auction, not by you
- 45-day commission cycles instead of four to six months
- Every auction generates a database of ready, qualified buyers you keep working
- An auction event brings people in to look at all of your listings, not just that one
- A niche almost nobody in your market has, which is how you stop competing on price
Agents who participate in auctions average 23% more annual transactions than traditional-only agents.
What working alongside Phil adds
Real inventory moving through a firm with 46 years in the auction business — court-ordered files, estates, tax sales, commercial. Not a portal subscription and a phone number to chase.
How to price a reserve, structure terms, build a campaign, and read a room full of bidders. It doesn't expire when the market turns — it works better when it does.
Estate and probate attorneys, trust officers, fiduciaries, municipalities. Those relationships take years. Phil makes the introduction.
Direct access, not a team leader you see at the Monday meeting.
Who this is for
You've closed deals. You're not looking for someone to teach you how to fill in a contract.
Distressed property, hard conversations, deadlines that don't move.
This builds a specialty over years, not a quick month.
What it isn't. Not a lead-buying scheme. Not floor duty. Not a downline. If you want leads handed to you at a split, this is the wrong conversation and Phil will say so in the first five minutes.
Agent questions
Do I have to leave my brokerage?
Not to refer a property or to co-broke a sale — that works from wherever you are. Moving is a separate conversation, and it's the right one only if you want auction to become your primary business rather than an occasional tool.
What happens to my client relationship?
It stays yours. Phil runs the auction; you stay in the file, at closing and in the client's phone afterward.
Do I need an auctioneer license?
No. You're acting as a real estate licensee. The firm handles the auction side.
What does it cost me to try one?
Nothing. Marketing is covered by the auction and there's no upfront cost to you or your client.
Start a conversation
It's a conversation, not an application. Phil reads these himself.
Referral program
You make the introduction. Phil does the work. You get paid.
You don't need a real estate license and you don't need to know a thing about auctions. You only need to know one person who owns property and has thought about selling it. A name from someone they already trust is worth more to Phil than any advertising he could buy — which is why he pays for it.
How it works
- Send the details
Who the owner is, where the property is, and why you think they may need to sell. Two minutes.
- Phil confirms the terms with you
Before he contacts anyone, you'll have the referral arrangement in writing, so there's no ambiguity later.
- He takes it from there
You're not selling anything, valuing anything or negotiating anything. That's his job and his license.
- It sells — you're paid at closing
Paid out of the transaction once it settles. If it doesn't sell, you've lost nothing.
Start close to home
The best referrals almost never come from strangers. They come from the people already in your phone.
- A parent or grandparent's house, now that nobody is living in it
- Property that has been in the family for years and everyone keeps meaning to deal with
- A brother, sister or cousin who has mentioned selling more than once
- A friend who is downsizing, upsizing, or moving for work
- A neighbor who has been talking about it over the fence all summer
- A colleague relocating, or a client who mentioned it in passing
If they already trust you, the hard part is done. Phil isn't cold-calling a stranger. He's returning a call from someone you vouched for — and that changes the entire conversation.
And the ones nobody else wants to touch
These are the referrals Phil values most, because a traditional listing rarely solves them.
- A landlord who is done with tenants and doesn't want to fix it up first
- A listing that expired and never sold
- Land nobody can figure out how to price
- A building the owner has been "thinking about" for two years
- A family arguing over what to do with an inherited property
- A house sitting empty since someone passed away
- A property falling behind on its taxes
Who already does this
Contractors, property managers, landscapers, movers, cleaners. You hear about a sale months before it lists.
Accountants, attorneys, financial advisors, insurance agents, lenders.
Handled through a standard licensee referral agreement. You keep the relationship.
Neighbors, relatives, colleagues. Most referrals come from people who've never sold a house in their life.
Referral terms are agreed in writing before the introduction is made, and every arrangement is structured to comply with Virginia licensing law and federal settlement rules.
Refer a property
Auction alerts
Hear about it before the bidding starts.
Auctions, estate sales and municipal tax sales run on a schedule most buyers only discover once bidding is already open — which is exactly too late to do the homework properly. Tell Phil what you're hunting and you'll get it early.
What should he send you?
Also register on the bidding platformAbout
Phil Bonnie
Partner and Associate Broker at Dudley Resources, a Virginia real estate auction and brokerage firm. He arrived at this work by an unusual road.
Background
Served with deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan; medically retired in 2009.
Intelligence and operational roles — analysis, risk assessment, execution under deadline.
Worked in markets abroad before returning to the United States in 2019 for real estate.
He moved toward the auction method because it's transparent: real buyers, real numbers, in the open, on a date.
Credentials
Virginia DPOR License 0225243246. Moseley Flint Real Estate School; Aspire Real Estate School, broker's license.
Estate, inherited, trust and court-supervised property sales.
2024–2025.
2022.
University of Arizona.
300 closed sales in the last five years, across residential, commercial, land and court-ordered sales.
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Terms of Use
Last updated: September 2026
This website is operated by Phil Bonnie, an Associate Broker and Partner of Dudley Auctions, Inc. doing business as Dudley Resources ("the Firm"), a licensed Virginia real estate brokerage and auction firm. By using this site you agree to these terms.
Informational purposes only
Everything on this site is provided for general information. It is not an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any property, nor is it legal, tax, financial or appraisal advice. Property information, auction terms, deposits, closing periods, buyer's premiums and fees vary by property and by engagement, and the terms published for a specific auction control over anything stated here.
No brokerage relationship is created
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Any calculator, estimate, statistic or projected figure on this site is an illustration based on general assumptions. It is not a valuation, appraisal, broker price opinion or guarantee of any result. Past auction results do not predict future results. Statistics describing auction performance reflect the Firm's own published figures and market conditions at the time they were compiled.
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Any referral compensation described on this site is subject to a separate written agreement and to applicable law, including the Code of Virginia governing real estate licensees and the federal Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act. No compensation is owed or payable except as set out in a signed written agreement. Nothing on this site is an offer of compensation to any person where such compensation would be unlawful.
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All property is offered in compliance with federal, Virginia and local fair housing law. See the Fair Housing notice for details.
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This policy explains what we collect through this website, why, and what you can do about it.
What we collect
- Information you submit through a form: your name, phone number, email address, property address, and anything you choose to write in a message field.
- On the referral form, information you provide about a property owner. Only submit another person's details if you have a reasonable basis to do so.
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Why we collect it
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Who we share it with
We do not sell your information. We share it only with Dudley Resources staff involved in your matter, and with service providers that operate the site, our email and our analytics, who process it on our behalf. We may disclose information where required by law or where necessary to complete a transaction you have asked us to work on.
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How long we keep it
We keep inquiry records for as long as needed for the matter and for any period required by Virginia real estate recordkeeping rules, then delete or archive them.
Your choices
You may ask us what we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it, subject to any records we are legally required to keep. Email pbonnie@dudleyresources.com and we will respond.
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Last updated: September 2026
We want every person to be able to use this site and to reach us, regardless of ability or the technology they use.
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Where we may fall short
Accessibility is ongoing, not a finish line. Parts of this site rely on third-party services — the bidding platform, listing services, embedded media — whose accessibility we do not control. If something here does not work for you, that is a problem we want to hear about and fix.
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If any part of this site prevents you from getting the information you need, contact Phil at pbonnie@dudleyresources.com or (757) 651-1729. We will provide the information in another format — by phone, by email, in print or in person — and work to correct the underlying problem.
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Equal housing opportunity
All real estate advertised on this site is offered in compliance with federal, Virginia and local fair housing law. It is illegal to discriminate in the sale, rental or financing of property, or in the provision of brokerage services, on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, disability, source of funds, familial status, elderliness, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, military status or veteran status, or any other class protected by the laws of the United States, the Commonwealth of Virginia or the applicable local jurisdiction.
The Firm offers equal service to all clients and prospects without regard to any of these characteristics, and cannot act on instructions from a seller that would result in discrimination.
Licensing
- Dudley Auctions, Inc. dba Dudley Resources — Virginia Firm License 0226032329
- Virginia Auction Firm License VAAF #1060
- Phil Bonnie — Virginia DPOR License 0225243246, Associate Broker
- 9601 Gayton Road, Suite 207, Henrico, VA 23238
Brokerage relationships
Under Virginia law, a licensee may act as a standard agent, a limited service agent or an independent contractor, and dual or designated agency requires the written consent of both parties in advance. Any brokerage relationship must be established in a written agreement before representation begins. Ask Phil to explain which relationship applies to your situation before you share confidential information.
Auction disclosures
Property offered at auction is generally sold as-is, where-is. Each sale publishes its own terms, including the buyer's premium, deposit, bidding increments, closing period and any reserve. Those published terms govern the sale. Judicial and tax sales are subject to additional statutory requirements and to court confirmation.
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