USPAP Update Course

Northern New Jersey ASA Chapter 73 will offer the 7 hour Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP) Update Course on Friday May 16, 2008 at the The Holiday Inn-Harmon Meadows, 300 Plaza Dr, Secaucus, NJ 07094 (Telephone: 201-348-2000). The course, which will be conducted by ASA International President, John D. Willey, FASA, is for members who have already completed the full USPAP course. It covers critical changes and revisions to USPAP that significantly impact every practicing appraiser. Registration is at 8:00 am; the class is from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm. The cost is $135 per person. Please confirm your reservation by sending your check, made payable to "ASA Northern NJ Chapter #73" to Timothy Griffith, ASA, PO Box 1399, Secaucus, NJ 07096 (Telephone: 201-424-7330).

Multidisciplinary Appraisal Lecture and Tour

The Northern NJ ASA Chapter and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) will jointly sponsor a Multidisplinary Appraisal Lecture and Tour on Thursday, May 15, 2008 at the historic Grand Lodge building, Masonic Hall, 71 W 23rd St, New York, NY 10010-4149.  RICS President David Tuffin, FRICS, and ASA International President John Willey, FASA, will be the guests of honor.

The evening will get underway with a tour of the 17-story Grand Lodge building. Built in 1910, it has over a dozen lavish rooms, each furnished in a different decor, including Gothic, Doric, Renaissance, and Colonial, to name a few, each with its own pipe organ! The tour and subsequent lectures culminate a year-long, multidisciplinary insurance appraisal of the interiors and real estate of one of the largest Masonic lodges in the world.

Ellen J. Epstein, ASA will discuss her valuation of the personal property and fine arts. Joseph P. Novelli, ASA will discuss the valuation of all the interior finishes. Paul D. Roberts, ASA will discuss the overall coordination of the project, and how the different disciplines worked in concert to supply the answers needed for insurance purposes. Come for the tour -- it's a knockout! -- and come away with a new understanding of multidisciplinary appraising.

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