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Real Estate Appraiser - Richard L. Sanderson Consulting - AAS #239
Bringing a local government, local property assessment/valuation perspective to the real estate community.
RECENT BLOG POSTS
    Why Local Property Assessors are Your Most Reliable Source for Tax Assessment Concerns When you have a question about your property assessment, go directly to the source: your local assessor.  In visiting the advice or community discussion forums on many real estate information websites (Acti...
02/05/2011
In an earlier posting I encouraged real estate agents, brokers, and other real estate experts to follow Seth Godin's advice that you must "own your zip code" by "hyperspecializing" or through "micro-specialization." My earlier posting suggested that one way of owning your zip code is to you get ...
02/04/2011
One Way of Owning Your Zip Code WHYSeth Godin, the man Business Week called "the Ultimate Entrepreneur of the Information Age" has authored several blog postings about real estate agents, basically saying that in order to survive in today's environment you must "own your zip code" by "hyperspeci...
01/28/2011
City Assessor Advises Commercial and Industrial Property Owners to Take Action If you only have time to do one thing in the next week, file an income and expense statement with your local real estate assessing office informing them of the current ability for you to lease your commercial or indus...
01/07/2011
Did You See Theses? We are recapping some of our most active blog postings during 2010 for those who may have missed them when they were first published.  Thanks to everyone who commented.  Your participation and feedback is always appreciated.  Please let us know of topics of interest for 2011....
01/02/2011
Residential and Commercial Property Tax Exemptions or Incentives in Your State Do your clients or potential clients qualify for tax incentives for renewable energy and energy efficiency in your state?  Individual properties, or improvements like solar or renewable energy could qualify for tax ex...
12/30/2010
Make Tax Compliance as Simple as Possible When starting a small business your first thoughts will be making a profit and staying in business.  But even before starting a small business your thoughts need to focus on what tax liabilities you and your business will have and how you will comply.  T...
12/27/2010
Local Government Services International has just released a new white paper entitled "Selected Internet Websites for Property Assessment Organizations in the United States and Canada."  The websites were collected over the last four years as part of other research but has now been compiled into ...
12/22/2010
  Information is Key Several times each day appraisers, assessors, attorneys, bankers, real estate brokers and sales agents, and settlement agents search the Internet to find real estate assessment information.  While an Internet search will reveal many services willing to provide real estate ass...
12/20/2010
- Consistency in Blogging Signals Payoff in Scores - Which profile types are most active on ActiveRain?  Probably to no ones surprise it's the real estate agent profile type.  But do you know who the real slackers are and which profile type gets "featured" the most.  Read on... My goal was to de...
12/19/2010
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