Title Insurance Expert Witnesses in Louisiana

This expert on land surveying obtained his BS in land surveying engineering from New Mexico State University, his MS in geospatial surveying engineering computer science from Texas A&M Corpus Christi, his JD from Florida International University, and his PhD in geomatics from the University of Florida. He has experience land surveying, geomatics, title, boundary, easement, riparian, littoral, real property, GIS, LIS, and geospatial. He is a certified professional land surveyor in 6 states and is active in his field as a member of the International Federation of Land Surveyors, the National Society of Professional Land Surveyors, and the Geographic and Land Information Society. He is also active in research, having authored peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, as well as presented as an invited lecturer at multiple conferences throughout his career. He has formerly served as a research fellow in geomatics at the University of Florida, an adjunct professor at Florida Atlantic University, a land law consultant for Walter G. Robillard & Associates, and a professional assistant professor at Texas A&M Corpus Christi. Currently, this expert serves as the president and owner of a private land consulting firm in Texas.

This highly qualified residential property management expert has over 30 years of experience in his field. He earned his BA in business and real estate from the University of Tennessee and is a certified property manager. He is active in his field as a member of several professional societies including the Texas Housing Association, the Austin/Houston Apartment Association, and the Institute of Real Estate Management. This expert formerly served as the senior regional manager of the Texas Region for CMH, Inc., as the regional vice president of Sun Communities, and as the area manager of the Texas Division for Champion Industries. This expert is currently the regional director of a national real estate and property management group for properties in downtown urban areas in Dallas, Houston, and Austin, Texas.

This expert has educational and professional experience in agricultural real estate and is considered a trusted professional in land economics and is eminently qualified to provide opinions concerning land economics and divisions of property. His educational and work experience uniquely qualifies him to provide such testimony for court cases. After receiving a B.S. and a M.S. in Agricultural Economics from Mississippi State University, he served 31 years with the MS Cooperative Extension. For 25 of those years, he was the County Agricultural Agent in Yazoo County, the state’s largest county which is a very diverse and significant producer of agricultural commodities. During his career he won numerous state and national awards for his efforts. He was recognized as a Certified General Appraiser by the state of Mississippi in 2005. Following his tenure with Kennard and Associates Appraisals, he began his own appraisal service business in 2008. He attained accreditation as an Accredited Rural Appraiser by the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers in 2008. His services include consultation on land purchases and investments, inheritance division, sale of property, determining basis following death, valuing recreational tracts, crop land, custom farming, crop rents, conservation easements, property divisions and many other real estate needs. He has assisted in cases and served in court testimony in the division of agricultural properties up to 4,700 acres. Approximately half of his work involves assisting families with the division of property. He has written several articles for Delta Farm Press concerning land economics, death tax and problems with undivided interests. In addition to his appraisal and consulting business, he owns several hundred acres of crop and timber land.

This expert has several years of property management experience, which includes 4 years of apartment management. For over 11 years he has also performed property safety inspections for major insurance companies. As a professional property manager, he holds the Master Property Manager designation from the National Association of Residential Property Managers. He conducted workshops for their property managers both locally and nationally, and is the author of several Property management classes approved in Texas for continuing education, and the Texas Real Estate Commission has certified the expert as an instructor of property management classes. In addition to authored classes, he has had over 25 property management articles published.