Bell Ferris will be teaching a 4-hour continuing education class for the Florida Appraisal Institute Chapters on Thursday, January 18, 2024 from 8am to noon. If you’d like to sign up or learn more, click here: January 18 Bell Read more…
On September 22nd, the Puerto Rico and Caribbean Chapter of the Appraisal Institute held a sold-out class on the Impact of Short Term Rentals on Real Estate Appraisals. Over 45 professional residential and commercial appraisers joined Jason L Ferris, MAI, SRA Read more…
We had a record turnout for our 7-hour continuing education course about short-term rental properties in August. Over fifty Tennessee appraisers joined our class to learn the proper procedures and techniques around appraising short-term rental properties. Short-term rental properties Read more…
Bell Ferris is excited to update our education calendar for 2023 and 2024. More dates are being added regularly, so we’ll post an updated schedule here. Upcoming Classes: South Carolina Appraisal Institue Chapter – Online 7-Hour CE – July 21, Read more…
The 2023 tax appeal season is upon us. The Jefferson County PVA has announced that 84,502 reassessments for the following neighborhoods have gone out: Downtown Central Business District (CBD), Old Louisville, Russell, Chickasaw, Portland, Park Hill, California, Pleasure Ridge Park, Read more…
Our Chief Appraiser, Jason Ferris, MAI, SRA, will be teaching a seminar for ProBank Education Services / Forvis to commercial bankers and lenders nationwide on March 14, 2023. The seminar will discuss how banks should view short-term rental (STR) properties, Read more…
Louisville, like most of the Midwest, you’ve heard me say before, is generally consistent, low risk, and relatively unexciting. For real estate investors, or should I say “long-term real estate investors”, this is good news. We just don’t have the Read more…
Bell Ferris is back at it! We have submitted our “Impact of Short-Term Rentals on Real Estate Appraising” for re-approval in Kentucky in August 2022. We are most likely going to be teaching this class to Certified Residential and Certified Read more…
Recently, I taught my 2nd continuing education class for appraisers in Colorado. The topic was how to appraise AirBNB and VRBO single-family houses, collectively known as Short-Term Rentals (STR’s). We discussed the place that STR’s have in the new sharing Read more…
The Upside Down Summer 2021 Louisville Housing Market The Impact of Inventory Shortages – More Money Chasing Less Product Appraisers like predictable patterns; it’s just the nature of our jobs. We like residential houses to be listed for 30 days Read more…
