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Conservation Easements Pros and Cons: Keep Ohio Cool and Green

The Robert Weiler Company

And, surprisingly, one way to beat the heat may involve a unique land protection vehicle known as a conservation easement. While these 8 sustainability trends drive the commercial real estate industry , the importance of a conservation easement cannot be underscored. Here, we explore conservation easements pros and cons.

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Home Appraisals – What Do They Look For?

D Fritz Appraisals

How Home Appraisers Decide on the Value of Your Property. There are many reasons you may need to know the value of your property and for this, you need a home appraisal. Home appraisers are trained to inspect and measure your property and perform comparisons that result in an accurate valuation for the current housing market.

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Conservation Easement in Ohio: A Guide to Protecting Our Treasured Land

The Robert Weiler Company

The importance of a fully modern open space preservation vehicle – a conservation easement in Ohio – cannot be better summarized than by our 26th President. Theodore Roosevelt, one of the nation’s original land protectionists, embodied the power and beauty of a conservation easement in the following quote: “Here is your country.

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What is a Land Appraisal and How Is Land Appraised?

The Robert Weiler Company

When there is land for sale – whether raw acreage, commercial property, or residential – a land appraisal is the key component of the process. Any loan for a property is based on the appraisal value. What is a Land Appraisal? Land appraisal is a process of assessing the land value and then developing an opinion of value.

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Commercial Real Estate Appraisal Review: Essential Handbook to a Necessary and Influential 2nd Opinion

The Robert Weiler Company

Unlike a commercial real estate appraisal review, most of the answers from “Facebook experts” are not fact-based; the responses on your social media post will range from beliefs to convictions to opinions. Fortunately, we do not conduct commercial real estate appraisals on social media! Grant Applications.

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Pros and Cons of Complex Property Appraisal: Insights from a Florida Appraiser

McKissock

In my previous blog post , I observed that specializing in complex property appraisal can be very profitable for the residential appraiser—in Florida and all across the U.S. The complex assignment is one in which the property to be appraised, the form of ownership, or market conditions are atypical. What is a complex assignment?

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Purchasing & Developing Land - Part 2 - The Process of Purchasing Land

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Another measure of value -- land values, not home values -- is information derived from a raw land appraisal. While it might seem counter-intuitive, appraising vacant land is more daunting than doing so for improved land. As a result, this valuation often exceeds assessor estimates.