SCCAI AND IRWA – LA JOINT LUNCHEON AND PROGRAM - “Much Ado About Nothing, or Maybe There’s More to It? Quirky Issues That Arose in Litigation Appraisal Cases
“Much Ado About Nothing, or Maybe There’s More to It? Quirky Issues That Arose in Litigation Appraisal Cases” The presentation will include a discussion of various case studies involving appraisal, acquisition, and/or engineering issues that evolved from what appeared to be straight-forward appraisal assignments to more complex ones through the scope of legal proceedings in eminent domain or inverse condemnation cases.
Joyce L. Riggs, MAI, SR/WA is Vice President of Riggs & Riggs, Inc. since 2001, which is an appraisal and consulting firm in Simi Valley, California. Joyce entered the real estate appraisal field in 1988. She holds the MAI designation with the Appraisal Institute, SR/WA designation with the International Right of Way Association and is certified by the State of California as a General Real Estate Appraiser. Joyce was President of the Chapter 1 - Los Angeles of the International Right of Way Association in 2000 and was President of the Southern California Chapter of the Appraisal Institute in 2003. She has chaired a number of seminars for both organizations and has served on the Professional Development Committee for Chapter 1 since 2005.
Appraisal and consulting services rendered include expert witness testimony, appraisal report preparation of full and partial acquisitions of fee, permanent easement, or temporary easement right of way assignments, and private non-government-related assignments. Property types include retail, office, industrial, agricultural, mobile home parks, and residential uses, including determination of estimated compensation, severance damages and/or benefits for condemnation acquisitions, inverse condemnation cases, and planning purposes. Appraisal assignments have been undertaken in the Fresno, Kern, Kings, Los Angeles, Madera, Ventura, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Barbara, and San Luis Obispo County regions. Joyce has qualified as an expert witness in the Superior Courts of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura Counties.