The firm is experienced in appraising land for a multitude of end uses, including everything from downtown development parcels to entire mountain subdivisions. We often take on assignments (as land or as the site for existing improvements) involving wetlands, poor topography, contamination issues, various easements and encumbrances, as well as land taken by eminent domain.

The firm has over 15 years of experience in the valuation of land for conservation easment purposes. Joe Ball, MAI, George Petkovich, MAI, CCIM and Andy Sheppard, MAI, have recently earned a certificate of completion for the Valuation of Conservation Easements course offered by the American Society of Appraisers, the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers and the Appraisal Institute and endorsed by the Land Trust Alliance.

The firm is experienced in appraising various office properties, including:

• Single- and Multi-Tenant Office Buildings;
• Branch Bank / Bank Headquarters Locations;
• Call Centers;
• Data Centers; and
• Medical/Surgery Centers

The firm is experienced in appraising various industrial properties, including:

• Single- and Multi-Tenant Warehouses;
• Bulk Distribution Warehouses;
• Textile Plants;
• Light- and Heavy-Duty Manufacturing; and
• Frozen/Refrigerated Food Processing Facilities

The firm is experienced in appraising various retail properties, including:

• Free-Standing Retail;
• Neighborhood Strip Centers;
• Regional Malls;
• Restaurants;
• Convenience Stores; and
• Storefront Retail

The firm is experienced in appraising various residential properties; however, our practice primarily involves commercial properties. Past single-family residential experience has been limited to atypical assignments involving contamination, proximity to power lines, cell towers and noise-generating sources.

The firm has been involved with a number of duplex and quadplex properties; however, the bulk of our residential experience is in conventional and subsidized multi-family residential housing. The firm has a particular expertise in the valuation of tax-credit low-income housing made available under Section 42 of the IRS Code, including existing properties in their "as is" condition, proposed developments, and existing properties proposed for substantial rehabilitation.

The firm is experienced in appraising various non-traditional property types and properties with less-than-fee-simple ownership rights. The firm has worked for a number of public and private entities in the study and/or valuation of mineral rights, quarries and borrow pits, street abandonments, landlocked parcels, cell tower sites, billboard sites, waste treatment facilities, rendering plants, proposed landfills, contaminated properties and wetlands mitigation banks.

As noted in the Litigation Support section of the website, the firm also has extensive experience in eminent domain appraisal assignments. The firm's partners are qualified as "Level 5" appraisers by the Georgia Department of Transportation, designating that they are qualified to appraise the DOT's most difficult assignments.