Friends had bought homes and "were getting appraisals," he said.
Mr. Morris said he has gotten appraisals on both pieces of land, but he said he did not know what they were as they went straight to the village.
With the state ever deeper in the red and the paperwork and approval process of getting appraisals, surveys and the rest excruciatingly prolonged, 64 farm families, including Mr. De Maria's, are still waiting for $71 million promised by the state from a program whose annual financing has dropped to $5 million from $30 million in 2008.
Orban say that Richard Solomon warned him to get appraisals on the artwork.
Special rules apply to hard to value items such as artwork and collectibles; you'll always want to get appraisals for those items.
And our clients are facing upward pricing pressure in many markets and we are struggling to get appraisals to match because the data is backward looking instead of current.
That included falsifying the amounts paid to vendors, getting appraisals that undervalued his properties, and buying a $15.5 million stake in one of his son's properties before selling that stake for $10,000 a few years later.
If you're not established yet, get appraisals from different galleries and art experts who don't mind helping you.
Then they finally got their appraisal, which told them the house up the street was not only cheaper but had a pool.
He mailed the offer to the landowner, who got the appraisal on Friday and died on a Monday.
His advice to homeowners trying to decide whether to appeal their assessment is to compare their assessments with those of their neighbors by checking the values on the county's tax assessment Wweb site, www.mynassauproperty.com, or by getting an appraisal from a real estate agent.
