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I live just steps away from the famous Southfork of the Snake River. Â It is a beautiful setting and people come from all over the world to fish and experience this part of the globe. Â It is not unusual to get wildlife walking through my backyard. Â Just this morning, there were three whitetail deer m...
I was speaking with an AMC executive recently (yes, appraisers and AMC employees can talk to one another) as a friend. Â He and I were swapping stories and he told me one that just made me recoil in shock and simultaneously laugh at the irony. Â
He said that one of his panel appraisers had recently ...
Have you ever asked yourself why gasoline prices seem to fluctuate so dramatically?  Maybe it’s the weather.  Perhaps it is a conspiracy in the Middle East.  Surely the politicians are to blame.  To be sure, the correct answer is complicated and likely multi-faceted.  There is much that goes into wh...
Judging is so fun. We do it behind people’s back. We do it on Facebook. We even do it in person.
Sometimes, I think we just can’t help ourselves. It is just in our nature. The problem is, most of the time
we have no idea what we are talking about. Kind of like this blog post. I am going to rant a ...
Okay full-disclosure, I still hate April 15, but just not as bad as I used to. Paying taxes can be a challenge for anyone, but it seems especially hard for those who are self-employed. Every spring, I used to get a big surprise from my tax returns until I changed one, small thing.
For the first d...
“Our investigation and the Board’s review concluded that the evidence did not reveal a violation of the Board’s laws and rules governing the practice of Real Estate Appraising. The Board has, therefore, closed the file in this matter.” That is how the most recent complaint against me ended. The orde...
