Types of Assignments
Appraisal
Appraisal Review
Valuation Consulting
Testimony and Public Presentation
Property Types Appraised
Real Estate: Airport hangers/aprons, antenna, apartment buildings, auto dealerships, bars, billboards, border station expansions, bulk warehouses, campgrounds, camp sites, campuses (post-secondary), car washes, churches, condominiums, convenience stores, daycare centers, dental office buildings, dormitories, earth berm homes, easements (avigation, construction, drainage, dredged material placement, driveway, fiber optic, flowage, levee, parking, perpetual flood protection, right-of-way, temporary construction, utility, wetlands), engineering buildings, farms (general crops, hobby, horse, potato, poultry, sod), fast food restaurants, fire stations, flood plain properties, gas stations, garden stores, gravel / sand pits, group homes, houses, land and lots (agriculture, industrial, railroad, recreational, residential - both rural and urban, sales-lot, waterfront, wetlands), Laundromats, licenses (artillery practice range, docks, stairways), light industrial buildings, log homes, lumber yards, manufacturing buildings, medical office buildings, military base land and buildings, mini-storage facilities, mobile home parks, motels, nurseries, office buildings, office/showrooms, office/warehouses, outdoor storage, streets, restaurants, retail buildings, retail space in malls and shopping centers, right-of-way, river channel, rooming houses, schools, Section 42 housing, shopping centers, storage warehouses, storm water retention ponds, subdivisions, supermarkets, telecommunications towers including co-locations, townhomes, transit facilities, vehicle service buildings, and waterfront homes.
Personal Property: Furniture Fixtures and Equipment for bars, restaurants, motels, apartments, rooming houses, vehicle shops, trucking company, and circular irrigation pivots for potato farms.
Business Enterprise Value: Motel (including franchise value), bar (including inventory and accounts), rooming houses, trucking company.
Appraisal Review
United States Army Corps of Engineers – Technical reviews of appraisal reports of agricultural, recreational, and / or developable land - some with oil and gas production and some with uncertain access rights (2019 - 2023). Analysis of appraisal reports of civil projects (2009 – 2012)
Appraisal Institute (AI) – Demonstration Report Grader (2010 – 2011). Graded Demonstration Reports submitted by MAI candidates to ensure that they met AI standards for methodology and analysis. Property types included: Apartment buildings and industrial buildings.
Miscellaneous – Analyzed reports in litigation cases involving property tax assessment valuations and marital dissolutions (2012 to 2018, and pre-2009). Reviewed past appraisal reports as background for new appraisal assignments (1991 – 2021).
Property Rights Appraised
Access rights, easements of many kinds (see Property Types Appraised), fee simple interest, leased fee interest, leasehold interest, licenses (see Property Types Appraised), life estate, partial interests of various types (ask for details), personal property / business valuation (ask for details), and water rights.
Uses
Intended uses of appraisal assignments include: Arbitration, absorption analysis, buying, condemnation, consulting, easement acquisition, economic and environmental planning, employee relocations, estate planning, estate tax valuation, expert witness testimony, federal government planning (armed forces recruiting stations, border protection, border station expansion, dredged material placement, eco-system restoration, flood diversion channel routing, flood protection, military base usages, recreational use), financial accounting reporting, financing, gift valuation, highest and best use analysis, income tax reporting, investment analysis, litigation, marital division, market analysis, mediation, partnership division, planning, property tax assessment appeals, prospective valuation, retrospective valuation, right-of-way acquisition, selling, special assessment / special benefit analysis, and subdivision analysis.
Clients & Users
Accountants, Attorneys, Banks (community, regional and national), Buyers (both investors and owner occupants), Engineering Firms, Estates, Governmental Units (federal – both civil and military, state, county, city, township, school district, watershed), Litigants, Mortgage Companies, Property Owners (for condemnation, estate planning, financial accounting reporting, and special assessment), Sellers.
Fundamental Market Analyses Completed
Bar/Restaurants, bulk warehouse, campgrounds, car wash, developable land, cropland including potato farms, Laundromat, manufacturing facility, medical office, mini-storage facility, motel, office building, office showroom, office warehouse, retail building, retail center, special assessments / benefits, subdivisions – commercial / industrial / residential, trucking companies.
Appraisal Employment, Education & Career Development
Appraisal Employers:
Casserly Appraisals 1991 to Present – Principal
United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) –
St. Paul District, July 2020 to present – Appraiser;
Joint Task Force - Marianas (Guam), Temporary Duty (TDY), September 2024 to present - Realty Specialist;
Omaha District and Fort Worth District, February 2018 to July 2020 – Review Appraiser;
St. Paul District, 2009 to 2012 – Appraiser
Appraisal Institute 2010 to 2011 – Demonstration Report Grader
Integra Realty Resources, 2001 to 2002 – Senior Analyst
University of Minnesota:
Carlson School of Management, Master of Business Administration, Marketing – 1984
College of Liberal Arts, Bachelor of Arts, Geography – 1975
Appraisal Institute Education: Seminar - Getting It Right From The Start: A Workout Plan For Your Scope Of Work, 2022;
Course – National USPAP Update: 2022, 2020, 2018, 2012, 2010, 2008 etc., to 1994; Course – Supervisory Appraiser/Trainee Appraiser Course, 2021 and 2015; Course – Business Practices and Ethics: 2021, 2017 and 2012; Seminar - Solving Land Valuation Puzzles, 2021; Seminar: 82B & Me, 2021; Course – Review Theory – General, 2018; Seminar – Uniform Appraisal Standards for Federal Land Acquisitions, 2018, 2011, and pre-2007; Seminar – Advanced Land Valuation: 2017; Seminar – Marketability Studies: Advanced Consideration and Applications, 2013; Seminar – 15th Annual Real Estate Trend Seminar: 2013; Seminar – Grading General Demonstration Reports, 2010; Course - Appraisal Curriculum Overview – for general appraisers, 2009; Pre-2007: Seminar – General Demonstration Report Writing; Course – The Appraiser as an Expert Witness: Preparation and Testimony; Course – Condemnation Appraising: Basic Principles and Applications; Seminar-Regression Analysis; Seminar-Legal Issues in Valuation; Seminar-Comprehensive Appraisal Workshop; Class 430, Standards of Professional Practice, Part C; Class 540 Report Writing and Valuation Analysis; Class 520, Highest and Best Use and Market Analysis; Class 550, Advanced Applications; Class 530, Advanced Sales Comparison and Cost Approaches; Seminar-Eminent Domain & Condemnation Appraising; Class 510, Advanced Income Capitalization; Class 420, Standards of Professional Practice, Part B; Seminar-Easement Valuations; Seminar-Appraising Special Use Properties; and, Class 410, Standards of Professional Practice, Part A. Also: Numerous short programs from 1994 to present.
Appraisal Institute Career Development: Region III Alternate Regional Representative for the NorthStar Chapter: 2014 to 2018; Attendee – Instructor Qualifying Conference: 2016; Attendee – Appraisal Institute Annual Conference: 2016; Grader – General Demonstration Reports: 2010 to 2011; Participant of the Leadership Development Advisory Council of the Appraisal Institute: 2008 and 2007; Awarded MAI Designation: 2007; Completed General Demonstration Report: 2007; Completed 3,000 Hour Final Level National Experience Review: 2006; General Comprehensive Examination – passed: 2002; and, organized Class 520, Highest and Best Use and Market Analysis: 2000.
Miscellaneous Education: Seminar - Valuation Bias, 2022, 5 hours; Seminar - Data Management & Narrative Reporting, 2016, 5.5 hours; Course – National USPAP and Minnesota Appraisal Law Update, 2016 & 2014, 8 hours each; Seminar - Appraiser Technology Tools, Resources, MN eCRV, 2014, 3.5 hours; Seminar – 2014 Commercial Real Estate Valuation & Appraisal Forecast Summit, 2014, 4 hours; Seminar – Septic System Introduction and Advanced Topics, 2013, 4 hours; International Right of Way Association (IRWA) Course 501, Residential Relocation Assistance, 2010; and IRWA Course 502, Business Relocation, 2010; Conservation Easement Appraisal, 2009, 8 hours; Minnesota GreenStar Training: 2008, 8 hours; State of Minnesota Assessing Education: 1993, 54 hours; Pro-Source Educational Services (now Kaplan): Pre-licensing education, 1991; Real estate sales training and education: 1985 – 1991, 450± hrs.
States and Territories Worked
Inspected and valued property in Colorado, Guam, Iowa, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming; consulted on property in Illinois and Kentucky.
Testimony and Public Presentations
Testified as expert witness in: district court; commissioner condemnation hearings; arbitration; mediation; and settlement conferences. Gave public presentations to city councils.
Business and Community Service
Real estate sales, management, construction and development including:
Home renovation - in 2008/9, a 1973 rambler on 18 acres; and,
- in 1980 an 1890, 2.5 story, urban, balloon frame, Victorian;
Transacted – in 1980s, over $6,000,000 of real estate sales and leasing of residential, commercial and industrial properties;
Owned or Managed– 5 rental homes;
Developed – two residential subdivisions, a 32,000 sf industrial building, and a 25 unit leasehold cooperative; and
Designed and built – fireplaces.
Instruction: Taught business management courses, including macroeconomics, microeconomics, investments, and personal financial planning.
Small Business:
Casserly Appraisals – Principal, 1991 to present;
Hearth & Home Co. – Managed fireplace construction business; owner’s administrative assistant for factory representation, building projects, etc.; and sales, 1976–1983.
Community Service:
City of Corcoran Planning Commission – Member (2007 to 2010);
Corcoran Jaycees – Chapter President (1986/7). Oversaw annual revenue increase from $2,500 to $2,200,000.
Member (1986 to 1994);
Fairview Neighborhood Development Corporation – organizer and first Chair (1983-6);
Child Care Inc., a non-profit child care corporation – Director (1981/2);
(James) Casserly for State Representative, de facto campaign manager – 1972, 1974, 1976, 1978, 1980;
Minneapolis Public School, Community Resource Volunteers Program – Committee Member (1978-80);
De La Salle High School Long Range Planning Committee – Member (1978-9);
Minneapolis City Council – 3rd Ward Council Member’s Aide (1975).
Licenses & Memberships
Certified General Real Property Appraiser in the State of Minnesota, License #4002724, expires August 31, 2026
Designated Member (MAI) of the Appraisal Institute - 2007 to present
Rogers (MN) Lions Club - 2022 to present
Shareholder & Subscriber - Appraisal Data Network, Inc. - 2013 to 2024
Member of the Cedar Lake Park Association (Minneapolis) - 2010 to 2018
Rogers Rotary Club - 2012 to 2018
Daybreakers Toastmasters Club of Rogers - 2016 to 2017
Prepared: November 30, 2024