REAL ESTATE APPRAISER TECHNICIAN

About the role

Responsible for performing routine, professional and technical work associated with the mass appraisal of real property for ad valorem taxation.

Responsibilities

• Conducts field reviews of real property; locates and identifies real property, referring to various maps, plats, aerial photographs, and other documents;
• Physically verifies information contained in blueprints, site plans, and specifications;
• Measures property size, shape, and square footage;
• Collections and records data relating to number of rooms, type of construction, age, building materials, terrain, appearance, property, improvements, or other conditions effecting values;
• Ascertains quality of workmanship and materials;
• Identifies various types of construction;
• Draws/sketches and makes photographic records of existing structures and new construction/additions;
• Re-sketches audited properties as needed;
• Documents changes to property records;
• Prepares detailed property record cards for use in calculating appraised values;
• Reviews various records and documentation in association with determining appraised values;
• Verifies sales data;
• Verifies ownership for proper classification of property;
• Identifies other factors impacting value of existing properties, such as remodeling, new features, depreciation, changes in classification, zoning changes, or external forces such as noise, traffic, pollution, or other factors;
• Takes such factors into consideration in determining appraised values;
• Reads and interprets blueprints, maps, plats, surveys, building permits, or other documents in order to gain more accurate information of real property and/or improvements;
• Performs research functions;
• Researches legal records such as deeds, deeds of trust, leases, assessments, or other records;
• Resolves discrepancies in information;
• Analyzes market data to establish value and level of assessment;
• Analyze sale ratios to measure and improve equality;
• Operates a computer to enter, retrieve, review or modify data;
• Verifies accuracy of entered data and makes corrections;
• Utilizes word processing, database, spreadsheet, or other software programs;
• Prepares or completes various forms, reports, correspondence, property record cards, or other documents;
• Receives various forms, reports, correspondence, deeds, property record cards, blueprints, building permits, site plans, specifications, tax maps, zoning maps, plats, aerial photographs, valuation guides, tax digests, codes, regulations, manuals, directories, reference materials, or other documentation;
• Reviews, completes, processes, forwards or retains as appropriate;
• Aids in defending appraised values and appeals as needed;
• Communicates with supervisor, employees, other departments, county officials, property owners, taxpayers, government agencies, the public, and other individuals as needed to coordinate work activities, review status of work, exchange information, or resolve problems.

Qualifications

• Education equivalent to an associate degree in Real Property Appraisal, Assessment, or a related field;
• Supplemented by 3 years of previous experience and/or training involving real property appraisal and/or assessment;
• Or any equivalent combination of education, training, and experience which provides the requisite knowledge, skills, and abilities for this job.

Skills

• Ability to evaluate, audit, deduce, and/or assess data using established criteria;
• Ability to provide guidance, assistance, and/or interpretation to others regarding the application of procedures and standards to specific situations;
• Ability to operate, maneuver and/or control the actions of equipment, machinery, tools, and/or materials used in performing essential functions;
• Ability to utilize a wide variety of reference, descriptive, and/or advisory data and information;
• Ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; ability to calculate decimals and percentages; may include ability to perform mathematical operations with fractions; may include ability to compute discount, interest, profit and loss, ratio and proportion; may include ability to calculate surface areas, volumes, weights, and measures;
• Ability to apply principles of rational systems; to interpret instructions furnished in written, oral, diagrammatic, or schedule form; and to exercise independent judgment to adopt or modify methods and standards to meet variations in assigned objectives;
• Ability to exercise judgment, decisiveness and creativity in situations involving the direction, control and planning of an entire program or set of programs.