How to choose the right appraiser in the case of a real estate claim?

An appraiser who accompanies you during a real estate lawsuit needs to know how to persuade, be prepared for cross-examination and understand the law. These are the rules for choosing a professional

How to choose the right appraiser in the case of a real estate claim?

If you have been involved in any real estate deal or venture that has gone wrong in a way that forces you to file a lawsuit or you may be the one who is suing, you should know that in addition to a lawyer, you need the assistance of a real estate appraiser. Imagine a situation where the real estate appraiser is standing on the witness stand in court And in front of him is an experienced and experienced lawyer who does everything he can to investigate him and cause his testimony to crash. This is not an easy situation for the appraiser at all and therefore a specific area of ​​expertise is required.

So how to choose a suitable real estate appraiser for court representation, why pay attention? Here are 3 important rules.

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First Rule - Choose an appraiser or appraiser with extensive legal knowledge

A real estate claim is almost always based on two elements - legal and economic, and in order to succeed, the two components must be combined into a winning formula. Therefore, an expert in court claims should know not only the economic aspects of the claim, but also understand The appraiser is not just an outside expert who values ​​valuation, but should be part of a legal-economic team that represents the client and strives together to achieve the goal.A real estate appraiser who understands both the legal parties in the portfolio knew how to execute his opinion optimally and He will often offer the attorney additional solutions and economic thinking accordingly To the types of legal claims.

Rule two - Choose an appraiser with appearance and expression capabilities

An appraiser is not a politician or a public relations person but when it comes to appearing in court, the appraiser should actually convince the court to adopt his opinion. This of course requires high-level performance and expression capabilities. In fact, it is not enough to speak eloquently, but rather, the assessor should know how to speak the judge's language rather than the technical language - he, the judge, is the one who decides who wins the case. Therefore, it is not enough for an appraiser to know how to prepare a technical professional opinion that only appraisers can understand properly.

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Rule Three - There is no substitute for experience and hard work

As part of the claim, each party endeavors to submit a professional and reasoned opinion of an assessor on his behalf. So how is the court supposed to decide who is right? Here comes the stage of cross-examination. To invalidate the opinion of an expert in a court, the attorney will attempt the cross-examination to show that it is an unprofessional and unreliable assessor. He will look for contradictions within the opinion, statements that are not 100% based, technical failures, discrepancies between statements made by the same assessor and things he said in other cases, in the media, in a professional magazine and more and in short the lawyer will turn every stone to find problems in the opinion submitted or in the The appraiser himself personally. The goal as stated, make the appraiser look less professional and less reliable.

Therefore, a professional assessor with extensive experience in investigations will prepare the opinion in advance knowing that any word that is written in it and any statistic indicated or not specifically mentioned may raise surprising questions during the investigation. The assessor will conduct a "cross-examination simulation" for himself in advance and rectify any possible defect even before submitting the opinion. It takes a lot of work and is more difficult, but as the saying goes, difficult in training - easy in combat.

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