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  Excel Can Do That?

  David M. Cornell

  This presentation highlights many of Excel's underutilized features.

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  Research Like a Pro

  Margie Cusack, Heather Steel, and Mary Odom

  This webinar will focus on how the IAAO Research Library is so much more than books. Join us for an all new hands-on training for the do-it-yourself researcher. You'll learn to find benchmarking data, special property appraisal methods, easy shortcuts for researching assessment topics, practical tips for the novice researcher, and international resources for the not-so-faint-hearted. CEU's will not be offered with this webinar.

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  IAAO Designations: Review and Reveal

  Tracy Drake, Brad Fowler, Paul Humble, Donna VanderVries, and Jarron Paronto

  You might be closer than you think to earning an IAAO professional designation. Isn't it time to find out? With recent changes to key requirements, more professionals are now qualifying. Join members of the Professional Designations Subcommittee as they discuss these changes and take your questions on how they apply to you. You'll learn how to qualify for a designation without a college degree, how you can apply your AI or ASA designation towards an IAAO designation, and the latest on IAAO's newest designation, the Mass Appraisal Specialist.

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  Effective Conference Presentation Strategies

  Peter Kienle

  Peter Kienle reveals his best tips and tricks to become a top tier conference presenter. This exclusive 2-hour tutorial takes your presentation to the next level by sharpening your preparation and practice.

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  GIS/CAMA

  Josh Ledgerwood and Michael Lomax

  Learn to communicate the culture and values of your office and pick up a professional skillset that will advance your career and set you apart as a leader in your office.

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  Deliver Compelling & Captivating PowerPoint Presentations

  Rob Moore and Kirk Boone

  IAAO Webinar Series - This webinar will feature how PowerPoint is a powerful professional tool that can deliver high-quality presentations and is most effective when used as a visual complement to your instruction.

  In this session, you will hear from Rob Moore, the lead instructional designer at the UNC School of Government, about techniques and skills that help you deliver compelling and captivating presentations with PowerPoint.

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  Update on Outdoor Advertising

  Cris O'Neall, J. Walter Allen, and J. Allen Smith

  The purpose of the webinar is to provide tax assessment officials and appraisers a thorough understanding of contemporary taxation and assessment principals for outdoor advertising signs and displays. Tax valuation and assessment experts will discuss the history of ad valorem tax treatment along with distinction of valuation for condemnation valuation purposes. The results of a national survey and perspective on outdoor advertising taxation and the uniformity doctrine will be included along with an analysis of specific tax cases from several states. This webinar is targeted for local and state tax assessment officials along with other appraisal/valuation experts so as to facilitate an understanding of outdoor advertising tax assessment matters particularly at the local level.

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  Writing a Press Release For Your Assessing Office

  Jake Parkinson

  Learn to communicate the culture and values of your office and pick up a professional skillset that will advance your career and set you apart as a leader in your office.

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  Experts on Evidence

  Paul Sanderson

  IAAO Webinar Series- Valuation disputes are a fact of life. Most assessors or appraisers will, at some time during their career, be required to explain their property valuation during litigation before a local or state board, or perhaps even a court of law.So, what can an assessor or appraiser do to ensure the best possible outcome if his or her valuation is subjected to such scrutiny? This presentation will provide assessors and appraisers with essential information that will help them to understand the hearing process and how they can competently support their valuation through both examination-in-chief and cross-examination.

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  I Can Only Please One Person a Day and Today Ain't Your Day!

  Tim Boncoskey and Kellianne Nagy

  Webinar attendees will learn what customer service and public relations are and why they are needed in any office. We will focus on how effective customer service applies nine public relations objectives and 10 commandments of human relations. Presented by: Tim Boncoskey and Kellianne Nagy.

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  Hazards - Hurricane Matthew and Beyond

  Curtis McDonald, Thomas Jeffery, Jim Siebers, David Smith, Aarti Desai, Laurel Di Silvestro, and Cory Payne

  With CoreLogic analysis estimating between $4 Billion and $6 Billion in insured property loss from Hurricane Matthew and recent changes in hazard science, it is important to transform the way we think about managing risk. Attend this webinar to learn more about Hurricane Matthew’s impact, wind speed, storm surge and damage estimate. The panel will share their perspective and analysis on the various modeling techniques including probabilistic, forensic and deterministic models.

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  Big Data For Valuation Purposes

  Michael Miller, Patrick O'Connor, and Mark Verrett

  This two-hour workshop will give an overview of the history and future of Big Data and how it has impacted the appraisal industry. The instructors, Michael Miller, MAI; Patrick O'Connor, MAI; and Mark Verrett, SRA, will demonstrate the most current uses of Big Data and discuss specific ways to utilize Big Data to build client relationships, increase business, and simplify procedures.

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  Yavapai County Assessor vs. Zillow Showdown

  Pam Pearsall

  Yavapai County Assessor Pam Pearsall has kept an eye on the growing popularity of real estate website Zillow.com in recent years. With Zillow acquiring Trulia.com it is hard to deny the impact Zillow will have on the national real estate market. Assessor Pearsall wanted to gain perspective of Zillow's relative value estimate accuracy when compared with her annual 2016 tax year updated homes values and wanted to answer the question: "What is the potential for public use of Zillow estimates for and against us?" The results were revealing.

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  All Aboard! Taking a Train Ride Through Hotel Valuation

  Toni Viens

  The webinar will review the attributes of real, personal, and intangible property. Included in the webinar will be discussion of hotels' unique chart of accounts, hotel units of comparison, return on, and of, FF&E, utilization of Smith Travel Research (STR) reports including the HOST Report, and the Competitive Set Report.

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  Animating Your Vision: Successful Cultural Change

  Bob Henriquez and Nereia Cormier

  Changing the culture of an office can be one of the most challenging tasks an organization will ever face. This presentation will guide participants through a new administration's first year in office and demonstrate how it brought its vision to life through a comprehensive strategic planning process, employee morale initiatives, and technological innovations.

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  Taxation of Minerals and Mineral Interests

  Calvin A. Kent

  This webinar will discuss the legal issue of property taxation as applied to mineral interests, particularly those severed from surface interests, and how these affect the assessment process. A review of various approaches to the taxation of mineral interests in primary mineral-producing states will be considered. Investigation results will be shared on whether mineral taxes conform to the principles of a "good" tax. Suggestions will be provided on ways to improve assessment practices for mineral interests.

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  Regional Mall Valuations...Marketplace Solutions

  Peter F. Korpacz

  The valuation of regional malls is a continuing exercise that presents a number of unique issues. Mall classification methodology is very important within the mall part of the retail industry, but is not yet fully understood and embraced by appraisers. Fee simple and leased fee property interest controversies have needlessly complicated cap rate derivation and other valuation methodology and techniques. Lack of understanding of how malls operate and how investors view their positive and negative performance issues often results in methodology mistakes. This presentation will look to the marketplace to resolve these items and various other issues arising under all three traditional approaches to value.

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  International Trends in Property Tax

  Paul Sanderson

  In this webinar, Paul Sanderson will look at the key issues concerning property taxes around the world and comment on how different countries are addressing them. In particular, he will be looking at the "popularity" of property taxes, the burden of property taxes in different countries, the frequency of revaluations around the world, the different valuation bases used, current valuation issues, the volume of appeals and how they are dealt with in various jurisdictions.

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  MRA In Practice

  Russ Thimgan

  In Lee County, Florida an MRA model was introduced for residential properties as a method to evaluate and transform data, streamline the valuation process and generate more accurate and defendable values. This webinar explores and discusses thoughts, methods and results of the MRA implementation journey.

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  In-House Counsel and The Appraisal Team

  Leisa S. Weintraub

  This webinar covers an intoduction and information from the Tulsa County Assessor's Office while disucussing strategies and general appraisal information.

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  When You Share the Time, You Share the Tax Burden

  David Boisvert

  This webinar will explore the three valuation methods as applied to Timeshare Properties. We will compare the general results when applying these methodologies. Finally, we will look at the Arizona Revised Statutes which have defined valuation methodology for timeshares. A few other take a ways from the webinar which effect the valuation are the Principle of Supply and Demand, location, amenities and rent ability.

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  What's Normal About Income and Expense Data? Webinar

  August Dettbarn and Brad A. Eldridge

  This session will review ways to obtain comparable income and expense data, as well as solutions to reconstruct and analyze the data. Discussions will address various lease bases for retail, office, industrial and multifamily properties.

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  Cap Rates and Valuation Metrics from REITS Webinar

  Gary S. DeWeese

  Participants in this program will learn how to value private real estate for assessment appeal purposes when there is a lack of private market transactions. This session will discuss valuation metrics derived from publicly traded REIT stocks to value private real estate.

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  Rental Data Analysis: Data Cleaning Webinar

  Vasily Kim

  Large volumes of rental data collected annually are cleaned and prepared for statistical testing by municipal assessors. The session will highlight a methodology utilized by the City of Edmonton, Alberta to save time when working with massive amounts of rental information.

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  State of the U.S. Real Estate Market - Midyear Update

  Peter Korpacz

  State of the U.S. Real Estate Market • Midyear UpdateThe pace of the U.S. economic recovery from the last recession continues to improve with consistent job and retail sales growth. Despite lackluster GDP growth, concerns about the quantity of job growth and uneven housing growth, most economists forecast continued positive economic growth. By mid-September when the webinar will be presented, the near-term course of economic growth should be clearer. A big “fly in the ointment” will be the upcoming midterm elections in November. That outcome will likely have consequences for the economy, which may be somewhat evident by mid-September. Mr. Korpacz will summarize economic conditions and their impacts, both recent and forecast, on real estate space and transaction markets for various markets and property type.