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State licensing of real estate appraisers began in the 1980s as an effort to prevent recurrences of valuation improprieties resulting from that decade’s savings and loan scandal. In that scandal — also the more recent mortgage meltdowns that contributed to the Great Recession — substandard appraisals and unethical appraisers produced inflated valuations of real […]
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Christopher Blakeslee, owner of Wine Property Consulting | Blakeslee Land Services in Petaluma, has lost his California appraiser’s license following scores of improper appraisal accusations lodged against him by the California Bureau of Real Estate Appraisers. Blakeslee surrendered his California license on Aug. 4, 2016. The surrender was part of a stipulated agreement to settle […]
CORRECTION: In a previous version of this article, Wine Industry Insight stated that Federal District Court Judge Richard Seeborg had combined the cases. That was incorrect. Judge Seeborg adjudged both cases as related but did not consolidate them, thus allowing the Treasury’s request for declaratory relief to remain open. To the non-lawyer, this may seem […]
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