QUALIFICATIONS OF ATOM LEVI, MAI, SRA, ASA

EDUCATION
 
COLLEGE:  
1995. Bachelor of Arts (BA). Business Administration. National University, Sacramento, California.
1974. Associates in Arts (AA). Real Estate/Business. College of the Sequoias, Visalia, California.
1973. California Real Estate Certificate. Issued jointly by College of the Sequoias, California Division of Real           Estate and the California Real Estate Association.
 
   
APPRAISAL: (Please see notes below)  
COURSES COMPLETED:
Year
National Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPA) Course 400
2003
Business Practices And Ethics Course 420
2003
Standards of Professional Practice (SPP-C) Course 430
1999
Standards of Professional Practice (SPP-B) Course 410
1996
Standards of Professional Practice (SPP-B)
1993
* Standards of Professional Practice (SPP)
1990
* Market Analysis X
1986
* Industrial Valuation VII
1985
* Rural Valuation VIII
1981
* Investment Analysis IV
1981
* Advanced Capitalization II
1974
* Capitalization 1-B
1973
* Introduction 1-A
1971
   
SEMINARS COMPLETED:  

  Case Studies In Commercial Highest and Best Use
  Real Estate Value Cycles
  Federal and State Laws and Regulations Workshop
  Spring Seminar: Automated Valuation, Mello Roos, State Stat. Data, and Digital Photos. Mr. Levi was a
                          featured speaker at this event
  Federal and State Laws and Regulations Workshop
  Understanding Limited Appraisals and Appraisal Reporting Options: Residential HUD Reporting
  Appraisal Reporting of Complex Residential Properties
  Subdivision Analysis
* Feasibility Analysis & Highest and Best Use Non-Residential Properties
* Regression Analysis in the Sales Comparison Approach
* Rates, Ratios and Reasonableness
* Money Market and its Impact on Real Estate
* New FHLBB (Federal Home Loan Bank Board) Appraisal Policies and UCIAR Appraisal Form
! FHLBB (Federal Home Loan Bank Board) Regulation R-41c
* Residential Appraisal (and FNMA)
* Comprehensive Overview of the Hotel/Motel Industry
* Market Analysis – The Key to Feasibility
* Tools & Techniques for Land Analysis
* Residential Appraisal (and FNMA)
* Feasibility Analysis

2002
2001
1999
1998

1996
1995
1993
1993
1989
1989
1989
1989
1988
1986
1981
1981
1977
1976
1974
1972

-NOTES-
Appraisal Education: * = by former AIREA ! = by former SREA Not marked = Appraisal Institute.
 

 
STATE OF CALIFORNIA:  
Board of Equalization, Assessment Standards Division, Course No. 5
Successfully passed qualifying examination for State of California Probate Referee
 
   
PROFESSIONAL DESIGNATIONS EARNED
 
APPRAISAL INSTITUTE:  
   
MAI - Member, Appraisal Institute. Designated December 1983.
The Appraisal Institute conducts a mandatory program of continuing education for its designated members. I have completed the requirements of the continuing education program of the Appraisal Institute with this status effective through December 31, 2003

The Appraisal Institute was created as of 01/01/1991 by merger of the former American Institute of Real Estate Appraisers (AIREA) and the Society of Real Estate Appraisers (SREA)

 
   
SRA - Senior Residential Appraiser. Designated November 1978.
Prior to 01/01/1991 starting date of the Appraisal Institute, Mr. Levi held the RM (Residential Member) designation (Membership No. 1184) of the American Institute of Real Estate Appraisers.
 
   
 AMERICAN SOCIETY OF APPRAISERS:  
   
 ASA – Accredited Senior Member. Designated in Urban Real Estate, February 1980.
The American Society of Appraisers conducts a mandatory Recertification Program of continuing education for its designated members. I have completed the requirements of the continuing education program and I am presently certified through July 2006.
 
   
 
CALIFORNIA STATE LICENSES
 
Certified General Real Estate Appraiser. Certificate AG001761, since 12/10/1991. Certificate expires 04/14/2004.

Real Estate Broker since 1976. License expires 04/20/2004

 
   
 
OTHER AFFILIATIONS
 
Member – Sacramento County Board of Realtors
Member – BAREIS (Bay Area Real Estate Information Services)(Northern Solano Association of Realtors)
Member – Nevada County Board of Realtors
Member – Sutter and Nevada Board of Realtors
Member – Local, State and National Association of Real Estate Boards
 
   
PROFESSIONAL ASSIGNMENTS *
*Partial List
 
Apartment Complexes
Automobile Dealerships
Automobile Repair Facilities
Bed and Breakfast Establishments
Commercial Lots
Community Care Facilities
Condominiums
Hotels
Indoor Shooting Ranges
Mini-Storage Facilities
Mixed-Use Developments
Marinas
Mobile Home Parks
Mobile Home Subdivisions
Motels
Office Buildings
Planned Unit Developments
Rehabilitation Projects
Residential Subdivisions
Restaurants (sit down and fast food)
Retail Stores
RV Parks
Single Family Residences
Shopping Centers
Vacant Acreage
Warehouses
 
   
APPRAISAL AND BUSINESS EXPERIENCE
 
Sept. 1, 1989 – Present Founder and President A.L. Appraisal Co., Sacramento, California.
1975 – Aug. 30th 1989 Founder and President A.L. Appraisal Co., Bakersfield, California.
1974 – 1975 Independent appraiser with the firm of Phil Wolf, MAI, Palo Alto, California
1971 – 1974 Manager and Partner with Central Sales, Inc. (a marketing arm for a new housing contractor) and independent appraisal, Visalia, California
 
   
 
PARTIAL LISTING OF APPRAISAL CLIENTELE
 
Corporations
Cambridge Filter Corporation, Syracuse, New York
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, San Carlos, California
Del Monte Corporation
Homequity Relocation Corporation
Kerr-McGee Corporation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Merrill Lynch Relocation Management, Inc., Newport Beach, California
Midas Muffler Corporation
Mono Power Co. Rosemead, California
Safeway Credit Union
SAFCO Title Insurance Corporation
Shriners Hospital For Crippled Children.
TICOR Relocation Management Company, San Francisco, California.
 
 GOVERNMENT AGENCIES
California Veterans Administration (Cal-Vet)
Federal Housing Administration (FHA)
Federal National Mortgage Association
Kern County Property Management Department
Mexico Federal Government
Veterans Administration (VA)
U.S. Department of the Navy
U.S. Small Business Administration
U.S. Department of Agriculture
U.S. Postal Service
Federal Home Loan Bank Board Comptroller of the Currency
Federal Asset Disposition Association (FADA)
Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation (FSLIC)
Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC)
 
 
 LENDING INSTITUTIONS
Bank of America (various departments)
Bank of The West
Butte Community Bank
California Federal Savings and Loan (various departments)
Capital Valley Bank
Imperial Bank
Humbolt Bank
Wells Fargo Bank (various departments)
 
 
INTERNATIONAL & DEVELOPERS
Glory California/Japan Development Corporation, Japan Global Development, Los Angeles, CA
 
FINANCE COMPANIES
Aetna Finance
Associates Financial Services Company
Beneficial Finance Company
Capital Thrift And Loan
CIT Finance Corporation
General Electric Credit Corporation
Household Finance Company
Norwest Financial Company
 
 
ATTORNEYS AND LAW FIRMS
BAKERSFIELD:
Dennis H. Beaver, Attorney
Law office of Norigega, Clifford, Jenkins, Stranton and Brown
Law offices of Byrum, Kimball, Carrick, Koontz & Crear
Law offices of Goldberg, Fisher, Randall, & Quirk
VISALIA:
McKinney and Hendrix
SACRAMENTO:
Law office of Thomas A. Nickens
The Law Firm of Kronick,Moskovitz,Tiedemann & Girard
Law Office of Phillip Berry
SAN FRANCISCO:
Law offices of Adams & Philipps
LOS ANGELES:
The Law Firm of Macdonald, Halsted and Laybourne
The Law Firm of Goldman, Gordon and Lipstone
SAN JOSE:
The Law Firm of Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro
 
 
AUTHORSHIPS AND RESEARCH ACCOMPLISHEMENTS

  “Appraisal Files, Management – Retrieval System”, American Society of Appraisers, VALUATION, Vol. No. 25, No. One, July 1978.

 
Created under commission to the American Institute of Real Estate Appraisers, a national seminar covering the topic of COMPONENT DEPRECIATION APPRAISING, 1979-1980.
 
“Accrued Depreciation in the Cost and Market Approaches, A Quick Method For Valuing and Reviewing”, National Association of Review Appraisers and Mortgage Underwriters, APPRAISAL REVIEW JOURNAL, Spring Summer Edition, 1985.
 
Designer of over 40 laser printer commercial/apartment/vacant land appraisal forms and involvement with creation of a computer software package to replicate the forms on the laser printer. The product was produced and marketed by Microcomputer Consulting Services (MCS) of Richardson, Texas under the trade marked name THE COMMERCIAL APPRAISER, 1987-1988. The forms are presently included in a package marketed by MCS under the name MCS APPRAISAL SYSTEM.
 
Provided in April 1990, 17 pages of written testimony to the Business and Professions Committee of the California State Legislature (through Senator Presley's Office) and verbally testified in April 1990 for appraiser licensing in the State of California, AB527.
 
“Unattended Backup Without Leaving The Computer On”, THE REAMUG JOURNAL (Real Estate Analysts Microcomputer Users Group), September, 1990, Vol. IX No.3. The REAMUG Journal, 948 Hilldale Avenue, Berkeley, CA, Mary J. Dum ,Editor.
 
“Qualitative Data, Databasing and Forecasting”, THE QUARTERLY BYTE, Fall 1990, Volume 6, Number 4, American Institute of Real Estate Appraisers, Chicago, Illinois.
 
“Qualitative Data, Its Use In Forecasting”, American Society of Appraisers, VALUATION, Vol. No. 36, No. One, March, 1991.
 
“Electronic Database Overview For Beginners”, THE QUARTERLY BYTE, Summer 1991, Volume 7, Number 3, Appraisal Institute, Chicago, Illinois.
 
“Seven-day Timer Takes Care of Daily Backup So you Don't Have To”, THE QUARTERLY BYTE, Summer 1991, Volume 7, Number 3, Appraisal Institute, Chicago, Illinois.
 
“R & R Writer For dBASE”, a software review, THE QUARTERLY BYTE, Summer 1991, Volume 7, Number 3, Appraisal Institute, Chicago, Illinois.
 
Publisher, editor, and co-author with Stephen Davenport, Jr., attorney at law and Gary Mesmer, CPA of The Independent Contractor/Appraiser Defense Guide, a 100 page detail study of the independent contractor relationship as it deals with appraisers, February 1992. Published by New World Equities, Inc.
 
“What Could a Database Do for You?”, THE QUARTERLY BYTE, Winter 1993, Volume 9, Number 1, Appraisal Institute, Chicago, Illinois.
 
“Failure and Your FAT: Avoiding Hard Disk Corruption”, THE QUARTERLY BYTE, Winter 1994, Volume 10, Number 1, Appraisal Institute, Chicago, Illinois.
 
“The Technology Revolution Brings Appraisers to the Present and Beyond”, THE QUARTERLY BYTE, Summer 1995, Volume 11, Number 3, Appraisal Institute, Chicago, Illinois.
 
Mr. Levi is the principal designer of an automated valuation software package known as REASON©, (Residential Evaluation/Appraisal Statistical Observation Navigator). The system had been licensed in 1995 for exclusive national marketing by PMI Mortgage Services, Co. PMI purchased the system in 1997. At the time of sale REASON©, was capable of being used in 22 states and was being employed, in multiple states, by major lenders, including: Bank of America, Union Bank, and Bank of California.
 
Mr. Levi is the sole designer of commercial valuation/analysis production software known as - Integrated Commercial Real Estate Appraisal System. The software streamlines the process and reduces the time required for the production of high quality commercial narrative appraisal reports. Among its benefits are sophisticated data analysis, absolute USPAP compliance, absolute internal consistency, and the presentation of large amounts of data in a reader friendly and usable format.
 
“Risky Business”, THE REAMUG JOURNAL (Real Estate Analysts Microcomputer Users Group), May-June, 2003, Vol. 22 No.3. The REAMUG Journal, 948 Hilldale Avenue, Berkeley, CA, Mary J. Dum ,Editor. Article discussion potential problems with electronic delivery of appraisal documents.