Some of you may know that I’ve authored 4 books with the Appraisal Institute and 12 Appraisal Journal articles, but that’s just a part of my monologue. I help run an appraisal firm, I’m an active day-to-day commercial appraisal and I’ve been in the industry for almost 2 decades. To put it simply… I’m a writer. This is my medium of choice and where I’m most comfortable.
Now that the intro stuff is out of the way, I hope to bring a commercial appraiser’s perspective to real estate on this blog. Typically, we’re the only unbiased, third-party part of a real estate transaction and that’s precisely what I intend to provide… an unbiased, third-party perspective of what’s going on. I’ll also be throwing in a sprinkling of other topics shown in the Categories pane just to round-out the perspective.
Lastly, blogging gives me an outlet where my opinions are not round-tabled by review editors, my examples are not watered down for appraisal industry political correctness and I’m not misquoted by the press. For me, that’s refreshing.
Stay tuned.
John
4 responses so far ↓
1 Bethany Kesler // Feb 6, 2008 at 6:50 pm
Intend, not intent.
Otherwise this is an excellent first blog.
2 njmai // Feb 11, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Who is John Simpson? Is that a retorical question? If so, boy, we can have a long conversation.
3 Eileen Simpson // Feb 11, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Hmm, how about your wonderful wife? Where is my shout out? LOL
4 John Simpson // Feb 11, 2008 at 4:52 pm
OK, an alternate definition of John Simpson is “the insignificant other of Eileen Simpson”. Hope that works.
Everyone’s a comedian.
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