About the Advisor

The RealEstate Advisor has over 24 years of experience as a professional Consultant, Real Estate Appraiser, and Real Estate Agent, providing consulting services to other agents, lenders, developers, government agencies and individuals like you. He is a licensed Real Estate Agent, a Certified Real Estate Appraiser and Real Estate Instructor. Perhaps more importantly, he is a property owner and investor. He knows this business from all sides and has an extensive knowledge about every facet of Residential Real Estate. If he doesn't know it, then he certainly knows someone else who does.



HIGHLIGHTS

Residential Real Estate Appraising

* Certified Residential Real Estate Appraiser - (with rating classification Residential/120.)

* SRA (Senior Residential Appraiser) designation with the Appraisal Institute.

* Over 15 years experience as a Real Estate Appraiser and Consultant.

* Over 12 years experience as a review appraiser - reviewing work for local lenders.

* Over 12 years as owner of a medium sized appraisal company.

* FHA approved appraiser - Lender Roster.

* SRA review appraiser for the Appraisal Institute.

* Regional Member, Ethics & Counseling Panel for the Appraisal Institute.

* Advisor to the State of Washington Mortgage Broker's Commission, 1992-1994.

* Uniquely experienced in appraising multi-million dollar, custom built homes and homes under construction that are in excess of 10,000sf.

* Has provided several appraisals for insurance companies on homes with title, fire and slide damage problems.

* WA State Approved instructor - teaching classes in seven (7) different fields of Real Estate to professionals.(Classes include: Appraisal; Real Estate Fundamentals, Practices, Principles; Real Estate Development and; Real Estate Marketing.)

* Conducts annual seminars for the University of Washington, Washington State Teachers Credit Union and several mortgage and Real Estate company's.

* Has provided 'Expert Witness' classes to University of Washington law students.

* Has provided expert court testimony on several occasions. Attempts by opposing counsel to discredit the advisor's knowledge were unsuccessful.

* Secretary of the Puget Sound Region Appraisal Institute 1999-2000.



Residential Real Estate Agent

* Over 24 years experience as a licensed real estate agent - has been a top producer with multi-million dollar sales volumes.

* Plat manager for a large sub-division with responsibility for marketing, sales volume, promotion, staffing, and all negotiations between purchases and the developers.

* Broad experience selling: residential homes, waterfront homes, residential condominiums, time-share condominiums, residential lots, vacation lots, residential subdivisions and commercial properties.

* Successfully involved with extensive and lengthy real estate transactions ranging from small lots up to a large $42,000,000 acquisition of various stores belonging to a large hardware company.

* Four (4) years as a principle with a general contracting firm building single family residences.

* Involved in the design and development of several residential subdivisions of varying sizes.



Consulting

Conducts research and analysis projects concerning Real Estate trends and issues for area builders and developers. The information is used in the planning, size, type, quality, and price of residential development.

Author of a quarterly newsletter which provided the numbers for current sales, listings, average sales prices and the breakdown of how many homes are selling in various price ranges. Feature articles address important issues such as land use regulations, underground oil tanks and environmental concerns, and banking regulations. These real issues affect the availability of buildable lots in any community.

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