Talk this way

Sara Rose Bytnar wants you to think differently about real estate auctions.

After all, auctions of foreclosed homes and businesses were often part of the sad state of the real estate market during the bust. “Floridians have had a bad taste in their mouths because of the recession,” Bytnar says. “They associate it with divorce, death and distress.”

The 29-year-old partner of Beth Rose Real Estate & Auctions says that's not the case in her firm's home state of Ohio, where auctions are often the preferred way to sell real estate.
“Auctions are so common in Ohio and Michigan,” she says.