Step 1 : Register. You need to register as a user of our auction website. Click here to Register. You will need to provide your credit card information which will be used to verify your identity. Once you complete the registration, you will get an email. You need to click the verification link in the email . This is to make sure you have access to the email address you provided. Once you click that link in your email, your email address is verified automatically, no need to use the provided verification code to verify, just go to Sign In page and Sign In.
Step 2: Sign In. You will need to Sign In, click here to Sign In.
Step 3: Place Bid. Once you Sign In, you will need to find the land you want to rent, and place a bid on it.
Step 4: Sign Lease. If you win a rental auction, we will call you to collect more info about you as a a farmer and as a renter, and we will report to the land owner. If Land owner has no concerns about you being the renter (usually winning bidder will be selected to sign lease), we will provide you with a lease to sign.

Proxy Bid is a feature that allows the computer to bid on your behalf in your absence. To set you Proxy Bid, Just enter your  maximum bid  in the same input box where you normally input your bid, and the system will take it as your Proxy Bid (also called Max Bid). Basically you enter the highest amount you are willing to pay and the system will bid on behalf of you as prompted by other bids. If any bidder outbid you, our system will intimate you by email. You can use the proxy bid feature if you are unavailable to bid at the time of auction closing, For example you can set your Proxy Bid to $100, and if the other bidders only go up to $40, you would win the item for $41. If someone bids higher than $100, then you would lose the auction.

Yes, our services are completely free to bidders. If you win an auction, ExtrAcre team will contact you within 24 hours. You will be obligated to sign a lease agreement with landowner if you are selected as the tenant. Please note: Winning bidder will not necessarily become the tenant. All our auctions have this term in place: Winning bidder will be selected as the tenant subject to landowner’s review & approval of winning Bidder’s Renter Profile.

This is referred to as a “Soft Close” and is common within the online auction industry. The bidding is extended by 5 minutes from the last bid registered and will continue to do so as long as there is bidding taking place. The item will close once there has been a 5 minute dormant period of no bidding. This is done to prevent bidders from waiting to the very last second to place a bid and “stealing” it from the current high bidder who may have wished to continue the auction process. This method also more closely resembles a traditional live auction in that the auction continues until bidding has ceased.

If it is a pasture land rental auction, the bid price is the rental per quarter section per year . For example , if an auction lot has 6 quarters, and your bid is $2,500, and you win the auction, then the annual rental will be $2,500 x 6 quarters.

If it is a crop land or hay rental auction, the bid price is the rental per cultivated acre per year . For example , if the auction lot says 510 cultivated acres, and your bid is $50, and you win the auction, then the annual rental will be $50 x 510 acres.