Archive for March, 2010

Webinar: Confidence in Regression

Webinar: Confidence in Regression

Please feel free to watch and leave comments on my weekly AppraisalWorld webinar. This week, I cover the topic of Regression analysis. Just reply to this post if you have any thoughts or suggestions

No More Blank Checks

Writing the Checks to Associations: I Make My Choices.

Professional appraisal organizations are not delivering what we need.

I have a lot of professional designations. MAI, SRA, CRE, CAE, ASA, FRICS. I ascribe that to being an overachiever. Maybe. Whatever the reason, it took a lot of work and money to get those designations. And it costs a lot of money each year to maintain those designations. Almost $8,000 every year.

First things second.

First things second.

Let’s get introduced. In my last posting, I told you what this blog would be. Today I tell you who I am, why I think what I think, and what shaped my perspective.

Starting Out

Starting Out

Lots of people with opinions on just about everything. Are you overwhelmed by the opinions of others who seem to bombard your inbox on a daily basis? I know I am. Yet here I am announcing yet another blog. I find about 99.365% of all the information that goes into my inbox to be of absolutely no value. (I also know that 84.7% of all statistics are made up). Why is it that intelligent people opining about our industry end up taking up so much of our temporal existence, and give us so little in return?