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Instructor: Gary DeWeese, MAI

This 7-hour seminar introduces participants to how the terms of a lease and the risk profile of the tenant influence the valuation of commercial real estate. Participants will see how the business features of commercial leases affect the quantity and the duration of the income stream that a property will generate and the development of the property’s income statement. Non-traditional sources of income, the proper period to use in measuring the income, measuring the real vacancy rate, expenses that might not be recoverable by a landlord if a CAM formula is incorrect, and how other special clauses in a lease can all affect the property’s income stream will be examined. The second part of the seminar discusses tenant credit risk issues and explains why understanding a tenant’s financial strength is key to assessing the quality of the income stream.

Seminar Reviewer and Instructor:  Sandra Adomatis, SRA

If you are not familiar with residential litigation and are interested in performing more challenging residential assignments, this fast-paced half-day (4-hour) seminar is for you!

Find out the basics of analyzing atypical residential properties for purposes of litigation. In the first case study, which is about a new house on an old dump, the class will initially identify the appraisal problem. The seminar includes opportunities to distinguish between partial and complete remediation and the role of each in this appraisal problem. Learn to differentiate between pounds of paper and critical information. Then discover how disclosure of defects may affect market value. Identify what to do when a typical sales comparison approach is not applicable. Enhance your skills in an entertaining learning environment.

The second case, which involves a home with a disappearing dock, explores deeded rights to community recreational amenities and due diligence in identifying rights associated with ownership. Learn how questionnaires can be helpful problem-solving tools.

The basics of title defect actions require identifying and measuring contributory value of a component, the disappearing dock. Learn tips to help you solve that difficult assignment in a convenient 4-hour virtual presentation!

A full-day residential conference jointly sponsored  by the Northern California Chapter of the Appraisal Institute and the Real Estate Appraisers Association (REAA). 

After missing a year due to the pandemic . . . we are back!  Well, almost.  We will convene by ZOOM for a day of virtual learning and networking.  Applications for 6-hours of CEC will be submitted to the Appraisal Institute, the California BREA and SBE.

Preliminary topics include:

• Appraising the Tough Ones:  Complex, High-end, and Unique Residential Assignments
• Understanding Legal Parcels and Descriptions: What Makes it Legal?
• Digitizing the Appraisal Process
• 2021 Legal Tune-up for Residential Appraisers
  

LISTEN.  PARTICIPATE.  LEARN.

You missed it in 2020.  We missed it in 2020.  It's returning in 2021 - in a virtual format for the first time!

Our 2021 Spring Litigation Conference presents advanced topics to appraisers interested in litigation work. This is a chance to sharpen your knowledge and broaden your practice by listening to some of the top experts in the region.

Topics include:

• Cannabis, Alcohol, Housing Prohibition, and No Animals Allowed!  New Controversies in Title Insurance
  
• Exhibits, Demonstrative and Graphics for Virtual or Live Testimony: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
  
• A Judge’s View of Appraisers and Appraisals in Condemnation Cases
  
• New Rules Hammerlock Admissible Testimony:  The Implications of Sanchez and Stamps on Expert Testimony
• Effective Use of Real Estate Appraisers in Tax Appeal Cases

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