This collection contains IAAO webinars published from 2010 to 2021. More recent webinars are available through IAAO-U on the main IAAO website.
Please note that CEU credits are no longer available for these videos.
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AssessR: A New Tool from the Cook County Assessor
Rob Ross
The Cook County Assessor’s Chief Data Officer Rob Ross will present a new R package, AssessR, and show how assessors can use it to perform ratio studies, look for sales chasing, and more. AssessR was developed as part of the Cook County Assessor’s New CAMA system, built on free, open source software. It contains a growing suite of helpful tools to streamline and standardize ratio studies. It is available to the public for free, and it’s source code is public. In this webinar, Rob will demonstrate how to open and read data into R, and use AssessR to calculate ratio statistics.
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AssessR: A new tool from the Cook County Assessor for ratio studies and more
Robert Ross
This webinar presents how the Cook County Assessor's office uses R to facilitate ratio studies. Includes a brief overview of R Studio.
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Financial Market Mayhem - Seeing Our Way Through the Turmoil
Pat Smith
Presented by Pat Smith, Vice President & Planning Counsel for the MTC Holding Corporation. Mr. Smith holds his juris doctorate and LLM in Taxation. A discussion of topics covering the tumult of the COVID-19 virus and its effect on financial markets, the economy, monetary policy, interest rates and saving/investing for retirement. The discussion is general in nature and no participant should make any investment decisions without consulting their personal advisor.
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The Impact of History, and Now COVID-19, on Each Generation
Larry Stone
In this one-hour interactive webinar, Santa Clara County Assessor Larry Stone will discuss how each generation was influenced by seminal historical moments, from the civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s to the end of the Cold War, 9/11, the Great Recession, and now, COVID-19. He will also discuss the impact of the Coronavirus on Silicon Valley's economy, which has been the greatest contributor to the United States' recovery from the Great Recession.
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The impact of history, and now COVID-19, on each generation and the economy
Larry Stone
This webinar presents Millennial and Generation Z financial and real estate trends, the gig economy, and addresses the potential economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Everything You Need to Know About the 2020 Annual Conference
IAAO HQ Team
The 2020 Annual Conference on Assessment Administration is right around the corner and we couldn’t be more excited. IAAO Staff will host this complimentary webinar, and dive into the details of the platform, record amount of CEU's, and more features of our 2020 event. Come learn the in’s, out’s and must see’s of IAAO's first ever, virtual conference. Presented by IAAO Headquarters Team
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The Power of Insights: Using Data for Fair & Eq. Assessments
Tim Bross, Saf Rabah, Mike Rowicki, and Kyle Souhrad
The benefits of integrating mapping and aerial photography with CAMA systems are well known. Today’s busy assessors are now looking for ways to turn property assessment data into actionable intelligence for fair and equitable assessments.
The digital transformation era has empowered assessors to move past outdated spreadsheets and into a real-time digital infrastructure that links valuation data directly to key performance indicators to help inform and validate processes, reduce time spent reporting, and enable citizen engagement and transparency.
Join this webinar and learn how Fulton County, Georgia, overcame fluctuating tax appraisals and rates, disjointed processes, and community distrust by revolutionizing their methods of sharing data to provide valuable insights to decision-makers, department staff, and the public. 2-Hours of CEU
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Rise of the Machines: Drone Technologies
Gregory Brown, Karl Sandell, and Abigail Robers
It's a Bird! It's a Plane? Is it Superman? It's a drone! Learn about drone technology and how they are being used for field data collection, imagery capture and workflow improvement. This session will also cover the legal considerations that your jurisdiction would encounter when using UAS/drones.
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Now That's A Good Story!
Bradley A. Eldridge and Kara Endicott
Storytelling in the classroom and during presentations can be a meaningful way to illustrate concepts to attendees. This session will explain how to turn real life experiences into good stories and contribute to the classroom and presentation experience. This presentation continues the work of IAAO's Education Committee to provide continuing education for its instructors at conferences. All are welcome to come hear our story!
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Discovering "Insightful" Patterns In Your Property Data
Dan Fasteen
Visualization using interactive graphs, charts, and maps makes both ArcGIS pro and Insights powerful and robust applications for valuation professionals to understand the patterns inherent in property data. This free session will demonstrate basic data exploration, visualization and analysis capabilities of both applications within the context of a real analysis. Learn how to dig deeper into your property and sales data to find data inconsistencies and anomalies, as well as understand the distributions, patterns, and relationships of important variables that contribute to value within your jurisdiction. This webinar includes a topic that will be taught during the 2020 GIS/Valuation Technologies Conference being held in Louisville, KY on March 23-26th 2020.
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Exposing the Dark to Light: the Geography of Dark Stores
Steven Laposa
This webinar builds on the successful presentation 'Dark Stores, Dark Theories, and Dark Magic' recently presented at the IAAO September conference. Participants will be exposed to more in-dept research, actual case study methodologies, practical applications, and recommendations on integrating the IAAO commercial big box market segmentation classifications with appraisal industry standards.
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Successfully Prepare, Defend and Manage Large Appeals
Joel Moser
While many assessors will routinely defend municipal assessments through an administrative appeal process or in court, there are certain properties that are, quite simply, different. At one point in her or his career, an assessor will be forced to mount a defense of such a massive assessment, coordinating with a team of municipal officials, legal counsel, and third-party experts.
Through detailed discussion of real-life case studies, the presentation seeks to empower assessors to more fully understand the unique challenges involved in the "once in a career" abatement litigation. The goal of "preparing the mega case" is to help ensure that municipal assessors will be prepared to tackle those challenges head on and manage a team of professionals to ensure a successful defense.
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Mineral Rights Valuation
Bradley D. Ross
In the webinar you will learn how to apply the three approaches to value to mineral rights and mining property. The differences between mineral rights and other real estate properties will be analyzed. Sources of information for data used in the income approach will be examined. Methods for estimating economic and functional obsolescence in the cost approach will be discussed. Analysis of comparable sales of mineral rights will be investigated. Various mining techniques will be explained and related to real world valuation problems.
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Professional Designations Create Opportunities
Terry Taylor and Grady Cecil Jackson
Professional designations create personal and professional growth opportunities and enhance your credibility as an appraiser. This free presentation will discuss the IAAO's designations with a focus on the requirements related to education, professional experience and projects as well as the benefits gained by earning an IAAO designation.
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Measuring Marijuana: Auditing Medical Marijuana Facilities
Thomas Tucker, Ellie Moss, and Lesley Kratz
Rapid medical marijuana industry growth is anticipated through the year 2025. This growth of the industry stems from rising awareness regarding marijuana’s various medical applications. The introduction of a new industry to the market place has created confusion about taxability and appraisal methodology for Assessors, while taxpayers have been left to feel uncertain about what to file and report for their businesses.
This presentation details the legalization, investigation, and public education that occurred in Maricopa County, Arizona and will cover the best practices of an audit process to establish that all medical marijuana facilities are filing and reporting correctly. It will also highlight unique issues specifically related to medical marijuana that are not common to other industries.
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1,000 County Indicators and More-NACo's County Explorer Tool
Ricardo Aguilar
The NACo's Counties Futures Lab in partnership with IAAO will present an interactive and in-depth webinar focusing on the County Explorer Tool. In this 1-hour session, webinar participants will learn the County Explorer basics which include navigating through the different maps for the over 850 indicators across 19 categories and 13 profiles. Attendees will also learn how to use the tool for comparing a county across several indicators with other counties, its state, similarly-sized counties or the median for the 3,069 counties. Participants will also become familiar with faster ways to get to the stats for their county.
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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Spatial Modeling
Paul Bidanset and Dr. Michael McCord
This webinar will demystify spatial (GIS-driven) models used in the assessment industry. The following areas will be addressed: * The main types of spatial models used in mass appraisal * Applications and demonstrations of each * Pitfalls and tips for successful implementation * Software (both commercial and free, open-source) capable of creating spatial models * Demonstration of improving ratio studies with spatial models This webinar will also feature several real-world examples of jurisdictions who have successfully implemented spatial models to improve valuations.
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Writing a Successful Demonstration Report
Charles Blow, Kevin Bradshaw, and Kevin Ternes
Join three IAAO graders for their tips on how to increase your likelihood of writing a successful demonstration narrative appraisal report. The “demo report” is the most intense requirement of earning an IAAO designation, both in the resources you invest and the satisfaction you receive upon completion. These graders will share their advice on how to get started on writing your report. They will also address specific areas where rejected reports typically fall short, and what to make sure you focus on to avoid repeating these mistakes.
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Using the Census Bureau's ACS for Assessment Officials
Gretchen Gooding
In this Free Webinar, you will learn how The U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS) is an ongoing survey that provides vital information on a yearly basis about our nation and its people. Discover the detailed social, economic, housing, and demographic statistics that the ACS provides for every community every year
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851 - RES Case Study Review Workshop
Marion Johnson
The RES Case Study Review Workshop provides a topical review and case study for the valuation of residential property. It is designed to assist candidates in preparing to complete the residential case study examination towards either the RES or CAE designations. This workshop reviews key concepts and introduces candidates to the structure of the case study examination, ending with a practice exam. It does not cover all the topics that comprise the exam; additional study required. Participants are to have had at least the basic appraisal courses and have experience in the appraisal of residential property. This is not an introductory workshop. The workshop is approximately 25% lecture and 75% problem solving.
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Valuation of Underperforming Regional Malls
Peter Korpacz
A detailed treatise on the valuation of underperforming regional malls to include mall classification criteria, analysis of historical performance metrics, identification of and analysis of comparable sales and consideration and ranking of approaches to value, valuation methods, and techniques. Useful data analysis formats will be presented for use in actual valuation assignments.
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The Importance of Customer Service & Information Technology
Gus Martinez, Daniel Fresquez, Isaiah Romero, and Jessica Ulibarri
Santa Fe County Assessor’s Office will discuss the technology they’ve implemented in recent years and how their office created a positive relationship with their community by valuing customer service at every level. The County worked to increase public knowledge about the assessment process by reaching out both online, print, and in person. Attendees should be motivated individuals looking for new and old ideas to find ways to promote information and customer service utilizing technology available in today’s world to build relationships within their communities.
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Cap It Off! Real World Cap Rate Development Methods
Marc Moffit
Learn capitalization rate development and defense techniques. Topics include: multipliers, band of investment, discount rates and market extraction methods. This session will also identify risk adjustments to consider when developing cap rates.
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Fill 'Er Up - Gas Station and C-Store Valuation Methods
Mark Moffit
Learn about the driving forces behind Gas Station and Convenience Store valuation. This session will include comprehensive discussions of Cost, Sales Comparison, and Income Valuation, as well as Business/Goodwill Value. The session will cover the cost approach for gas stations, including a discussion of the components that belong to the property owner and parts that belong to the tenant, the landlord, or the fuel distributor.
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NACo's County Explorer Tool: Profiles, Benchmarking and More
Stacy Nakintu
The NACo's Counties Futures Lab in partnership with IAAO will present an interactive and detailed webinar focusing on how to use three features on the County Explorer Tool. This session is a follow-up webinar to the May 23rd session. Webinar participants will be introduced to County Explorer basics such as accessing the different maps for the over 850 indicators across 19 categories and 13 profiles for communication and advocacy. Participants will learn how to quickly find indicators of interest using the "Search an Indicator" function. The presentation will cover the benchmarking tool in detail.