Interested In NORTH STAR CHAPTER LEADERSHIP? Every year the North Star Chapter of the Appraisal Institute tries to send a representative to the Leadership Development & Advisory Council (LDAC). This year the Board of Directors would like to give a partial scholarship to three representatives. Our hope is that by attending the LDAC meetings you…
North Star Chapter Members, The Minnesota Association of Assessing Officers (MAAO) has published their education offerings for 2019. You can register for classes at https://www.mnmaao.org/educational-offerings. Not all of the assessor courses have been approved for appraiser credit by the Commerce Department. As with any course, you will want to verify that it has been approved…
The Real Estate Appraiser Advisory Board (REAAB) held its first meeting on Wednesday, October 31, 2018 in St. Paul, MN. The REAAB was established during the 2018 MN legislative session thanks to efforts by the North Star Chapter Goverrnment Relations Committee (GRC). It is a seven-member board tasked with advising and providing input on real estate appraisal…
North Star Chapter Appraisers, Your Government Relations Committee (GRC) is working hard on your behalf. Over the past three years, we have passed three appraisal-related bills into law with the help of our state legislators. Here’s a list of our accomplishments: 2018 – Created the Appraisers Advisory Board to advise and provide best practices regarding real estate appraisers…
Joe Ibach, MAI, recently was in Washington, D.C. to attend the AARO Conference. While there, he met with staff from Senators’ Rounds (SD) and Hoeven & Heitkamp (ND). Topics of discussion included: H.R. 6347 & 6348…two house bills that propose to increase the real estate thresholds for major SBA loans. Not good for the appraisal…
“I graduated from St. Cloud State University, with a Bachelor of Science in Real Estate, and an emphasis in appraisal. I was a commercial fee appraiser for nearly six years at Diversified Real Estate Services before venturing to Glaser Financial Group (merged into MMA Realty Capital) as an underwriter for multi-family projects involving Freddie Mac,…
Samuel (Sam) A. Adesiji, SRA, is a Certified Residential Appraiser in the states of Minnesota and Florida and owner of AkSams Appraisal LLC. With over 13 years of experience as a residential appraiser and countless hours of continuing education (CE) from the Appraisal Institute (AI), Sam knows what it takes to gather market data to develop credible appraisal reports.…
In each newsletter, we will feature a North Star Chapter Member. This quarter we’re highlighting Craig Harrington, SRA, AI-RRS, one of this year’s recipients of the Appraisal Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Award. North Star (NS): How long have you been a member of the Appraisal Institute? Craig Harrington (CH): I have been a designated member since January 17, 1984, and I…
The last days of 2018’s Summer included the Minnesota State Fair setting an all-time attendance record with 270,000+ people walking through its gates in one day. This is an impressive number and certainly more eye-catching than me telling you there are currently 82,000 active appraisers in the United States right now (54.9% are Certified Residential,…
For immediate release Aug. 21, 2018 For more information: Ken Chitester O/M 312-335-4290 kchitester@appraisalinstitute.org CHICAGO (Aug. 21, 2018) – The Appraisal Institute, the nation’s largest professional association of real estate appraisers, today announced it has hired Jim Amorin, MAI, SRA, AI-GRS, of Austin, Texas, as its chief executive officer after a nearly year-long search. “Jim did…
