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... 24/2013 12:00:00 AM by CompleteMarkets Editor , Barry Zalma 1 Verified Reviews - 5 of 5.0 1 2 3 4 5 The insured was 82 years old and bored. She had been born shortly after the turn of the century to a wealthy family of Connecticut merchants. She'd been a debutante and had lived most of her life in luxury. Now, at 82, she was a widow living alone. She had a small income from her husband's estate and 82 years' worth of things. But things bored her. Living alone bored her. Simply passing the days exhausted her. Her life needed something to keep her interest. She recalled that shortly before World War II, when she and her husband lived in New York City, they got all their fine things appraised by Leo McCarthy, the foremost pre-war art appraiser. The appraisal was written on sheets of 11 1/2 - by 14-inch artist's vellum, and a pen-and-ink drawing illustrated each line of fine descriptive script. She took one sheet to the local stationery store and had them order 50 sheets of similar paper. When the paper arrived, she sat at the kitchen table for weeks, meticulously copying with a fountain pen each sheet of McCarthy's work. She lightly traced the line drawings with a very soft pencil and then drew over the pencil lines in ink. The only thing she changed were the values-to reflect what she believed to be modern prices. She cautiously erased all the pencil lines with a soft gum eraser. Each page was a masterful copy, as ably illustrated as any Bible page ...

...ewelry industry. The $12 million appraisal was done by a member of the respect...this happen? Because it can. Proper appraisals by qualified, reputable apprais...

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...erence between price and value, appraisal and valuation, and what makes valua... is usually just as accurate as an appraisal — but not always. This is ...

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...hey would send him a bill for an appraisal, which they were authorized to perf...nically accesses digital photos and appraisals of auto damage directly from the body shops. FPG then validates the appraisals using industry-standard appraisal- and repair-estimating software....

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... deviate from your approach when you get caught up in a bidding war. The process of properly valuing an independent insurance agency can be complex and is often overwhelming when it is necessary to cover all of the bases required by the courts and the IRS. Management consulting firms that value insurance agencies as part of their services prepare extensive documents that review all of the valuation guidelines listed in Revenue Ruling 59-60 as they relate to the subject agency. They then apply anywhere from two to six different valuation tests depending upon the size of the agency and the purpose for the valuation. The result is a report that can easily be in excess of 50 pages and often loses the average reader (and many judges) well before the conclusion is reached. When you cut through all of the background details and appraiser jargon, however, the process really is not all that difficult. Even if there is a valid reason to have an independent third party appraise the agency every year or two, agency owners can and should go through an abbreviated valuation calculation of their own. No outsider can know your agency as well as you do. The balance of this report suggests three fundamental approaches to valuing an insurance agency. Provided that the person applying them carefully and unemotionally evaluates the specific organization, any of these methods can be appropriate at one time or another depending upon the purpose for the valuation. While there are different judgment calls that may have to be made if a separate book of business is being valued rather than the stock of a going concern insurance agency operation, the basic methodology can be applied ...