Whats on the Internet for commercial appraisers?
If you’re a commercial appraiser, you should already be on the Web. The resources are almost staggering. Recently I was contacted by an appraiser working for a well known, medium sized commercial appraisal firm. He was looking for information on a local brew pub. I asked him how found brew pub locations. He said “phone books.” I said “You mean paper phone books?” I strongly suggested it was time to use Internet phone directories. He could have obtained addresses and phone numbers for brew pubs all over the U.S., not just from whatever local directories he happened to have in his office. Another appraiser contacted me for information on water slides. I told her there was probably lots of information on the Internet. She wasn’t online, so I offered to check it for her. Within 10 minutes I had lists of articles, several trade association phone numbers, etc. I suggested she get online as soon as possible.
