appraisers: County Real Estate Property Tax Assessments Are Beyond Rediculous - 10/15/10 02:51 PM
In my County within South Carolina real estate owners are now receiving their property tax bill for 2010.  During the past several days clients have been calling to ask me why their homes "Fair Market Value" had increased, in one case, by almost one hundred thousand dollars and their annual property tax owed had increased several thousands of dollars.  I could only tell them to appeal the Assessment because homes comparable in their neighborhood were being appraised by licensed Appraisers for less then their previous "Fair Market Value".
If the property tax bills my clients received were in error I would be the first to … (1 comments)

appraisers: My Response To The Wall Street Journal's "What's With All the Moaning about Home Appraisals?" - 07/12/09 02:26 PM
I was on the Coldwell Banker site for agents and saw a link for an article from The Wall Street Journal and when I opened it I was shocked.  Here's a link to the article "What's With All the Moaning about Home Appraisals?" 
Here's my blog comment to that article:
9:57 pm July 12, 2009 Sandy Keller wrote: I am very disappointed with the Wall Street Journal for allowing publication of an article written by someone who does not have a clue about the subject. I worked for the Federal Government in Washington, D.C., was President and CEO of several corporations, … (0 comments)