When most of us think of appraisals, we do so in relation to diamonds or real estate. In fact, appraising antiques is a very different process. First of all, real estate appraisals utilize a ...

William Apgar, former commissioner of the Federal Housing Administration, was recently quoted as saying that real estate appraising is an art form, not a science. A statement like this from such a ...

Setting a sales price for a business operated as a sole proprietorship can be difficult. Each sole proprietorship is different, and insider information on the sale of comparable businesses is ...

How do you appraise illegal assets for the purpose of estate taxes and/or donations? Some people have tangible items in their estate that can’t be legally sold, creating a problem: There’s a fair ...

Written by Bill Waltenbaugh, as originally published in The Reverse Review. Q: I have a reverse mortgage borrower who has been advised her home will be sold in a sheriff’s sale due to nonpayment of ...

Written by John Golden, as originally published in The Reverse Review. In recent weeks, I have been involved in several situations surrounding the treatment of private well water and private septic ...