Chief appraiser is more of a management position with different appraisers. I have a lot of appraiser experience. And so you might be familiar with the issue i brought up about homeowners, one or two units. Sometimes i get frustrated emails from our constituents who have gone through the process a complaint about really long wait times and often dont understand the process. It can be very confusing if you dont have the experience that many of you do. Im curious about your thoughts around that. I think you are always trying to find a market value. The market value for people is sometimes different. They think the house is perfect. Maybe it has something that from a marketing standpoint, something is wrong. It is important to them to understand that you need to have the most similar, recent sales. In the same neighborhood. Most recent. Usually dealing with the market going down. If you are dealing with the market going up you want listings. I listened to one hearing. I sat in one of the
Life, true in a couple of months. I have been a real Estate Attorney for the last 15 years here San Francisco and for a few years in oakland. For the last 12 years i have worked primarily as a real estate broker. I have quite a bit of experience with the appraisal process. I am a homeowner here in San Francisco. That is in true; i have been a renter for the last two months; for the previous 15 years, an owner of singlefamily homes and a few condos and also the landlord. I understand all of those perspectives. I also was the president and secretary depending on the year of homeowners associations; i have been and adjunct professor; work with the San Francisco ethics boards of the San Francisco association of realtors. I have sat on the San Francisco association of realtors arbitration board. I have chaired the forms committee for the San Francisco association of realtors, the Education Committee and on the California Association of realtors form and Education Committees. I work with van
And real estate appraisals and 1984. I have been a Real Estate Agent since 1984, and an appraiser since 1986. I have been active i own apartments. I was the chief appraiser. I have had to review appraisers review; not always agreement in value. Chief appraiser is more of a management position with different appraisers. I have a lot of appraiser experience. And so you might be familiar with the issue i brought up about homeowners, one or two units. Sometimes i get frustrated emails from our constituents who have gone through the process a complaint about really long wait times and often dont understand the process. It can be very confusing if you dont have the experience that many of you do. Im curious about your thoughts around that. I think you are always trying to find a market value. The market value for people is sometimes different. They think the house is perfect. Maybe it has something that from a marketing standpoint, something is wrong. It is important to them to understand th
Who have gone through the process a complaint about really long wait times and often dont understand the process. It can be very confusing if you dont have the experience that many of you do. Im curious about your thoughts around that. I think you are always trying to find a market value. The market value for people is sometimes different. They think the house is perfect. Maybe it has something that from a marketing standpoint, something is wrong. It is important to them to understand that you need to have the most similar, recent sales. In the same neighborhood. Most recent. Usually dealing with the market going down. If you are dealing with the market going up you want listings. I listened to one hearing. I sat in one of the assessment board hearings, on the same street, a condo on the same street being reassessed. One was fronting positive, another fronting something that was taking away from the value. They need education. When you go through the first process there is a checklist
Very important. A lot of times residents come with insufficient information; dont have the knowledge about what they need to bring. Many times most of them they have one chance only because they would have missed the opportunity of reapplying, or applying for the current year because the cases take such a long time and they dont understand the process. In some ways where we can get that type of education out, for those who have agents who know about agents. There are more advantages. One of the things for me in this position in board 2, i do recognize the shortcomings of most of our residents. I tried to look at the cases very objectively in trying to bring together as one of the comments, the Public Comment, trying to bring one with City Government and its residents so you can have that type of understanding. Thank you very much, and thank you for your service as well. Next we have ms. Robia crisp. No, im sorry, ms. Crisp has let our office know that she could not be here today due to