2026 WAA Convention

Collaborating Together

January 26th-28th, 2026

Wisconsin Auctioneers Association

Upcoming Professional Auctions

WAA News

Three deadlines

Don’t miss these deadlines! The countdown is on! The Wisconsin Auctioneers Association is gearing up for one of the most exciting conventions we’ve hosted — and we want you in the room. Don’t miss these deadlines! Media competition - you can’t win it if you don’t...

Two Reminders

Two Reminders for this week The Public Hearing in Madison is TOMORROW. The Wisconsin Legislature’s Committee on Ways and Means will hold a public hearing on Assembly Bill 712, addressing a sales & use tax exemption for personal farm property and household goods...

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WAA Member Spotlight

Jeffrey Hines

Hines Auction Service, Inc was started in the 1960’s by Colonel Jack Hines of Ellsworth, WI. The business grew year after year. Jack sold everything from farms to machinery to antiques and real estate. Business continued to grow and the family became ever more...

Kendall Thiel

Kendall Thiel of “Thiel and Thiel Auction Service”, working with his father Jerry, conducts dozens of Real Estate, Personal property and Benefit auctions throughout Wisconsin yearly, helping raise Millions of dollars for several organizations. Kendall can give a...

Rodney Freymiller

Rodney went to auctioneer school at Reisch Auction School in Mason City, IA in 1976. Then, in 2007, he attended the Professional Ringman’s Institute in Springfield, MO. He worked as a subcontract auctioneer for other auctioneers in southwest Wisconsin for many...

Gerald O’Connor

Gerry O'Connor founder and owner of O'Connor Auction Group has been in the Auction Business since 1981, after graduating from Reich World Wide College of Auctioneer in June of 1981. He is a second generation auctioneer and was trained by the renowned auctioneer,...