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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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.
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Say What You Mean, Mean What You Say
Brenda Setelin
Communication is the number one key to success. However, for some, it is the most difficult portion of their job. This webinar will teach attendees the essential functions of communication in an assessment office to help them connect with their employees, co-workers and citizens by discussing different communication styles, how to communicate with different generations, effective listening skills and interpretation of meaning.
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Dirt is Just Dirt, Isn't It? - Agricultural Land Valuation
Garth Thimgan
Agriculture has always played a major role in the development of civilization. This webinar will provide participants with a brief glimpse of the history of valuing agriculture land and also a glimpse at the importance of the role that agriculture plays in the economy of the United States. The webinar will then focus on the valuation of agricultural lands and the current approaches to its valuation. An emphasis will be placed on Use-Value, while other approaches will be shown, as well as some additional assessment tools that can be used in the valuation of agricultural lands.
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Developing Effective Age Models
Errol Williams
Depreciation models are a function of age that reflects the condition of a property and highlights the decline in asset over time. Whenever properties are remodeled, the change in condition dictates recapturing the appreciation in the asset. This webinar introduces a new theory on effective age and outlines a clear procedure that captures asset appreciation. Using residential sales data in Harris County, Texas, effective age models are developed for different levels of remodeled residential properties. The results of the models are tested against sales and the appraised values of unsold remodeled residential properties, and yield all acceptable levels of estimates as outlined by the IAAO.
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Supersize Me! The Valuation of Corporate Headquarters
Tim Wilmath
This presentation will cover the valuation of corporate headquarters and large single-occupant corporate campuses. Very large single-occupant office buildings and corporate headquarters exist in almost every jurisdiction. Often, these are some of the largest buildings in a jurisdiction. Because of their size and high assessments, they are often appealed, and assessors must wrestle with many interesting topics. This presentation will also review some of the more interesting and prominent corporate headquarters around the United States, including Facebook, Best Buy, Google, and Apple. These buildings contain some of the most interesting architecture and features and make great examples for how to address some of the common appraisal and assessment challenges.
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Waterfront Property Evaluation
Melissa Baer
Northeast Regional Manager, Melissa Baer, CAE, CCMAII, is available to present a webinar that covers some of the issues specific to waterfront properties, including FEMA, water depths and tidal changes. She'll cover valuation techniques that others can use to value a variety of types of waterfront. The goal of the Webinar is to provide participants with insight on new techniques for valuing waterfront property.
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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Modeling
Paul Bidanset
Modeling can be an intimidating word that conjures images of computer code, Greek symbols, and ivory towers; this presentation will bridge the gap between modelers and appraisers by explaining not just what models do, but how they do it, with zero jargon or mathematical formulas. It will demystify just how modeling fits into the assessment process, and offer key paths for modelers and appraisers to work together to produce optimal valuations.
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Becoming a Mobile Assessor
Billy Burle and Daniel Anderson
IAAO Webinar Series - This webinar will focus on the fact that field appraisers are mobile by nature, therefore your data should be mobile with them.
However, just going mobile or paperless is not enough. To truly realize the enormous productivity gains and cost savings possible you need to look for an integrated mobile solution.
This webinar will discuss the differences between mobile and integrated mobile including the importance of workflow, reporting, real-time field tracking, and quality control - all backed up by examples and real productivity stats courtesy of Travis Central Appraisal District.
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Excel Can Do That? Part 2.
David Cornell
Most assessing offices are swimming in data. This webinar demonstrates how to take raw data and turn it into actionable insight by using some of Excel's most powerful analytical tools, including Solver (Excel's optimization tool) and Excel's 3D mapping. This webinar will also demonstrate how to create data models.
Discover how Solver is used in the valuation process
Discover how to create conditional formatting
Discover how to create Tables - setup and advanced features
Discover how to create Pivot Tables and Pivot Charts (including how to add custom measures, including median values)
Discover how to connect Excel to different data sources
Discover how to create Data Models in Excel (very powerful!)
Discover how to use Power Query (one of the best new tools in Excel!)