On Monday, 14, 2024, the Michigan chapter hosted the STR class. We had a great turnout and a great setting. The Hagerty Center at Northwestern Michigan College has a Coast Guard school and a Culinary school, so we had a student-made catered lunch and cherry crisp for an afternoon snack Read more…
Bell Ferris taught 30+ appraisers, investors, and regulators at ValExpo 2024 at Ceasar’s Palace in Las Vegas this past week. The Appraisal Institute, a sponsor of the event, put on the class. We discussed the components necessary to properly appraise short-term rental properties, such as Airbnb and VRBO. We had Read more…
The Iowa Chapter of the Appraisal Institute hosted the premiere of the Short-Term Rental class on May 9th and 10th in Des Moines and Iowa City. Executive Director Shauna Gehring arranged the back-to-back classes to serve the appraisers spread out across Iowa. The STR class is a new continuing education class offered Read more…
Jason Ferris, MAI, SRA, developer of the course “Impact of Short Term Rentals on Real Property Valuation” for real estate appraisers and professionals, will be teaching the 7-hour Continuing Education course at Valuation Expo 2024 in Las Vegas in August 2024. This class is now part of the Appraisal Institute Read more…
Jason L Ferris, MAI, SRA, Appraiser with Bell Ferris, Inc. in Louisville, Kentucky has partnered with the Appraisal Institute to develop a 7-hour continuing education seminar titled “Short Term Rentals: Impact on Real Estate Valuations”. The course offers real estate appraisers a method specifically to value short-term rental properties, such Read more…
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 Ferris will be teaching a 7-hour continuing education class for 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 from Bell Ferris, who instructed the group, for a 7-hour 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 (STR’s) are becoming a large part of the real estate 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, which pose a unique challenge for appraisers. The seminar explores 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 General appraisers again in spring 2023 in the Louisville area. Read more…