[The Hall Monitor] The Argument For Seasonal Time Adjustments

Todd Huttunen began appraising more than 20 years ago with a few years off in between to pursue a career in cabinet making. He relegated that to hobby status and is currently an appraiser in an assessor’s office. His best friend dubbed him The Hall Monitor because of his rigidity and respect for rules. [...]

[The Hall Monitor] Appraisers And Micrometers Don’t Mix

Todd Huttunen began appraising more than 20 years ago with a few years off in between to pursue a career in cabinet making. He relegated that to hobby status and is currently an appraiser in an assessor’s office. His best friend dubbed him The Hall Monitor because of his rigidity and respect for rules. [...]

[The Hall Monitor] Adjustments For The Maladjusted

Todd Huttunen began appraising more than 20 years ago with a few years off in between to pursue a career in cabinet making. He relegated that to hobby status and is currently an appraiser in an assessor’s office. His best friend dubbed him The Hall Monitor because of his rigidity and respect for rules. [...]

I See Dead People And They Want Me To Make An Adjustment

In the article Do you see dead people? Disclose it [Realty Times] Most states’s disclosure laws don’t deal with the forms the deceased take in the afterlife, but they do address death as a stigma. The one exception is death caused by AIDS. Federal law define’s AIDS as a disability and such a [...]

The Changing Values Of Renovations

The housing boom has changed the relationship of renovations to value. In most markets, the cost of renovations (within reason) is less than or equal to the value added to the property. As appraisers, we develop comfort levels of contributory values that renovations may add to the overall value of a property we [...]

Central Park: No Price Can Be Attached To The Center Of The Universe

In case readers of Soapbox missed this post in my other blog, Matrix Central Park: No Price Can Be Attached To The Center Of The Universe I placed it here as well.

Courtesy of Satellite Imaging/New York Magazine

One of the reasons to love Manhattan is clearly Central Park. New York Magazine asked us to venture [...]

A Taxing View Leads To A Revolt

In New Hampshire, town assessors are beginning to treat view amenities as a separate line adjustment. The idea is that if a property has a value premium because to its views, it is taxed over above other properties. In some markets, the view adjustment is a separate line item [Washington Post]

The concept here [...]

Adjusting for Dragons

Submitted by John Mason, an appraiser…

Hey Folks:

So how much do you adjust for a 15+/- foot high, solid wood, hand carved dragon? It looks like the neck and head is from the base of an old tree trunk (still attached to the roots) with the wings and tail from the upper sections of the [...]