“One of our mottos is that we ethically and morally conduct each and every auction to produce the best sale for our clients…. as well as, providing the best opportunity for each of our bidding customers. With this motto in place at every auction, our pride shows.”

SERVING INDIANA AND THE U.S. MIDWEST
We are commissioned to perform appraisals and/or auction liquidations not only in southern and central Indiana, but in the U.S. Midwest.  Since 1977, we have performed appraisals and auctions for clients from many states.   Do you need a professional, ethical and moral appraiser or auctioneer?  Telephone Dianna Bland Hancock at 812-322-5997 to discuss your prospective project whether it be an appraisal or a liquidation. 



Kenny Bland Auctions & Appraisals was founded in 1977 by Col. Kenny Bland and wife, Sherry, with their three children, Douglas, Dianna, and Dirk. The business was and has always remained a true family business, striving for the most professional, ethical, and morally-based appraisal and auction company.
 
Appraisals and auctions are our fortes; Dianna began auctioneering in 1982, and Dirk in 1994, although both have worked in these realms in every level since 1977.  They continue the auctions and appraisal company today into the 21st Century alongside their mother, Sherry L. Bland.  

Our auctions include Commercial * Estates * Commercial/Farm/Residential Real Estate * Private Residential Downsizing into retirement quarters, etc. We have the equipment, knowledge, manpower, and trucks to handle any type of auction, from complete set up to finish -- our place or yours -- in Indiana and our surrounding Midwest states. Our list of clients and customers has grown into the ten-thousands. We are a company which has liquidated literally thousands of homes and businesses since 1977.  We conduct an average of 70-90 auctions per calendar year as well as, conduct and deliver literally hundreds of documented and verbal appraisals each year.   Call Dianna Bland Hancock for more details and information on Bland Hancock Certified Appraisals and/or KB Auctions & Appraisals....812-875-2300, 812-322-5997.

Let us speak with you about selling your real estate. As we’ve proven, your real estate can also be sold using “quick-sale methods” we have incorporated for years. Our proven track record of liquidating real estate, be it residential or commercial, farm acreage with dwellings/buildings (or acreage alone), or what-have-you, Dirk, Dianna and Sherry can get the job done.  We prefer to advertise and show a property for a minimum of 4 to 5 weeks prior to the sale date…contact us as soon as you are ready to discuss the possibilities.  Telephone Dianna or Dirk to set up a non-binding meeting with you to answer any real estate questions.  The process doesn’t have to be complicated, we assure you.  We cross our “T’s” and dot our “I’s”  and provide you with a professional and thorough real estate transaction.    Our commission rate is a bargain compared to typical real estate market commissions and fees.   Period.

Soon after our very first auction in 1977, it was apparent to our family that this region of Indiana and the Midwest needed a professional and stout liquidation facility -- an auction house. Thus in 1981, auction Pavlion plans were drawn. Construction of the 'Kenny Bland Auction Pavilion' was completed with a later addition in 1995. Our company is unique in that we are able to offer public auctions at the Pavilion, and of course, at your location, as well.  At the Pavilion, we have over 5,000 square feet to display and conduct our estate/consignment public auctions, with a large outdoor, graveled area that is utilized during fair-weather months.  Through the years, the Pavilion has been updated making it a comfortable, climate-controlled, modern facility with seating for extra large crowds, with gender restrooms, two large parking lots…..and let‘s talk about “Sherry‘s Cafe.” From the very first auction and continuing today, Sherry Bland provides a home-cooked menu (most items are “from-scratch”) each and every Pavilion sale with items to choose from such as biscuits/gravy, delicious coffees, cakes (and sometimes pies), beef vegetable soup, beef chili, chicken/noodles, polish sausages w/green beans, polish sausage dogs w/sauerkraut, and other surprise seasonal items (persimmon pudding, chicken salad sandwiches, squash pie, strawberry shortcake, etc).

At the Kenny Bland Auction Pavilion, we typically offer weekly auctions, normally on Thursdays or Saturdays; check with our website calendars to confirm dates…or you can always call our telephone numbers listed here. We only accept quality-grade/functional  consignments at our Pavilion, and as well, have a “pick up” option for our clients if they are unable to move their merchandise to us. We have been moving furniture, art/glass/porcelain, and boxed merchandise to our facility for clients since 1981, thus our experience and pride mandate a “handle with care” policy with each and every move we are commissioned to do.

We conduct equally as many "on-site location" auctions per year. Our personal property liquidations typically are due to an estate or a retirement downsizing or simply because the client is moving to a new residence, etc.   Regularly we are commissioned to handle commercial and/or industrial liquidations, and are very experienced in this realm.   We conduct a semi-annual motor pool auction for Indiana University in Bloomington, for example, and continue to liquidate many businesses in our region…

The KB staff consists of our family and dear friends, with most of them having been on board with us since the 1980s. One of our mottos is that we ethically and morally conduct each and every auction to produce the best sale for our clients, as well as, providing the best sale for each of our bidding customers. With this motto in place at every auction, our pride shows. Bland Hancock Certified Appraisals and KB A&A are second-generation businesses of the future and ones you can depend on through old-fashioned values and trust. We have young, third-generation staff members, and it’s exciting to watch them “growing up” in our business alongside us.   “Col. Kenny” would be walking tall and shoulders back with pride …..

"Col. Kenny" began writing his memoirs of this family business early on in the late 1970s. His goal was to pen all of this into book form to publish at some point. These hand-written notes tell the honest, real stories of some of our most-unusual auctions and appraisals --- some of our most-memorable ones.... He respectfully talked about our clients ...He talked about our diverse customers and the stories that go along with all of these memories...
In his own words, he penned his excitement in beginning this new auction business venture in 1977 and through the years added many, many chapters...one "sale" at a time. He wrote up into the late 1990s and into the year 2000....alas never finishing his works. One of these days, we'll publish this amazing, captivating adventure of local lore. Since his passing in June of 2000, we've been blessed by the standards in which he lead us. He is the reason behind our motto at the top of this page. Our Lord blessed us with our parents as our founders.

And we continue onward…

“Yes, We Can Appraise That!”