10th Annual SCCAI and IRWA Chapter 57 Joint Luncheon and Program - What's So Special About Special-Use Properties? Insight on CA Evidence Code Section 824

Eric Schneider, MAI, SRA, AI-GRS, R/W-AC

Principal

Schneider Valuation Consultants, Inc.

Eric has over 15 years of real estate appraisal and appraisal review experience, with a specialty in forensic appraisal review and providing services for litigation support and disputed real estate matters. Based in San Diego, California, he has extensive valuation and consulting experience involving commercial and residential real estate throughout California and in states across the nation.

Andrew G. Saghian

Associate

Best Best & Krieger LLP

Andrew G. Saghian is a litigation associate in Best Best & Krieger’s Municipal practice group. He assists clients with navigating all aspects and stages of litigation at both the trial and appellate levels. Andrew’s practice includes contract claims, business and real property disputes, tort litigation, civil rights actions, employment/discrimination claims, property tax appeals, eminent domain and inverse condemnation.

Andrew attended Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, where he was a member of the Ninth Circuit Clinic. While in law school, he briefed and argued a constitutional due process claim before the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and served as a judicial extern for the Honorable Virginia A. Phillips of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

Title of Presentation

What’s So Special About Special-Use Properties?

Insight on CA Evidence Code Section 824

Description of Presentation

The evidence an appraiser can rely on for litigation matters can be complex, particularly when the property being appraised involves a special use. In this presentation, Andrew and Eric will discuss Evidence Code 824, its background, the criteria involving what constitutes a special use property, and a case study involving the condemnation of a cross in the Bay area.