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Appraiser pleads guilty to fraud scheme

Valuation Review

A North Carolina land appraiser recently pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the United States as part of a syndicated conservation easement tax shelter scheme. This involved inflating charitable contribution deductions based on a fraudulent appraisal value of a conservation easement on land that claimed more than $1.3

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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.