Attorneys Federal Appraisal LLC was specifically established to serve valuation issues arising in legal contexts and in accountancy.  Federal Appraisal LLC provides expert testimony, dispute resolution, litigation and technical support for complex real estate, and business valuation litigation and dispute issues.  We provide our clients with both geographical and topical dispute resolution support expertise, regardless of where the assets are located, what type of assets are involved, or what kind of issues have arisen. Call for a free services-scoping consultation for your specific dispute. Our services include: Expert testimony Property Tax Appeals Damages estimates; loss and/or damage calculations Bankruptcies and reorganizations Arbitration and mediation Support for partnership disputes Support for landlord/tenant disputes Support for the cross examination of experts Traditional and nontraditional valuation and appraisal services Value, income, and yield analyses Environment Issues Lease Audit & Analysis Financial or operations analysis Fairness Opinions and Comfort Letters Research services, including economic, demographic and GIS Statistical analysis services, including regression analysis, options pricing Market positioning strategies Because real estate and business valuation issues are often complex, dispute resolution requires the coordination of multidisciplinary teams.  We strongly recommend to our clients that they engage valuation experts as early as possible in the dispute resolution process.  We are convinced the great number of lengthy and costly disputes could be avoided or could be resolved more quickly, if the parties to dispute were in possession of proper valuation services earlier in the process.  Unfortunately, all too often, parties to the dispute are under the mistaken impression, that because of the cost, valuation services should not be obtained until later into the process.  There are in fact numerous consulting services available to the parties involved in the dispute that are both appropriate for use early in the dispute and are relatively inexpensive. Click Considerations for Valuation and Litigation  for an article written by Mark Pomykacz, the Managing Partner of Federal Appraisal LLC, on the topic of litigation and real estate appraisal expert. Business Interruption Consulting, Damages Estimates Federal Appraisal LLC provides consulting and appraisal services to individuals and companies suffering from business interruptions and damages from natural and man-made disasters and accidents.  If the loss or diminution of the use of your real estate is causing a loss in business income and/or is reducing the utility or value of your real estate, then Federal Appraisal LLC may be able to help you recoup your damages.  Even tenants in damaged or reduced utility space can benefit from our services. The actual or alleged loss or damage might be from contractual breaches, environmental conditions, weather, physical damages, from external-to-the-site conditions, or from malfeasance or non-feasance.  Federal Appraisal LLC provides appraisals of damages, lost income and stigma for negotiations, and court testimony for or against insurance companies, property owners, plaintiffs and defendants. Management Consulting Issues and Solutions for Attorneys Federal Appraisal provides user-defined scopes of services and agreed upon procedures services relating to attorneys. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Federal Appraisal LLC provides the real estate and business appraisals and valuation reporting support required by the SEC.  See our SEC page for more information. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Federal Appraisal LLC provides the real estate and business appraisals and valuation reporting support required by the IRS.  See our IRS page for more information. Federal Appraisal LLC is not a law firm or an accounting firm.  As such it does not offer legal or audit opinions.  Federal Appraisal can obtain and/or manage those services for its clients.

Litigation Federal Appraisal, LLC provides expert testimony, dispute resolution, litigation and technical support for complex real estate and business litigation issues.  We provide our clients with both geographical and topical dispute resolution support expertise, regardless of where the assets are located, what type of assets are involved, and what kind of issues are involved. Our services include: Expert Testimony Property Tax Appeals Bankruptcies and Reorganizations Support for Partnership Disputes Support for Landlord/Tenant disputes Traditional and Non-Traditional Valuation and Appraisal Services Value, Income and Yield Analyses Business Interruptions and Damages Estimates Environment Issues Lease Audit & Analysis Financial or Operations Analysis Support for the Cross Examination of Experts Fairness Opinions and Comfort Letters Research Services, including Economic, Demographic and GIS Statistical Analysis Services, including Regression Analysis, Options Pricing Market Positioning Strategies Arbitration and Mediation Because real estate and business appraisal issues are often complex, dispute resolution sometimes requires the coordination of multidisciplinary teams.  We strongly recommend to our clients that they engage valuation experts as early as possible in the dispute resolution process.  We are convinced the great number of lengthy and costly disputes could be avoided or could be resolved more quickly, if the parties to dispute were in possession of proper valuation services earlier in the process.  Unfortunately, all too often, parties to the dispute are under the mistaken impression, that because of the cost, valuation services should not be obtained until late into the process.  There are, in fact, numerous consulting services available to the parties involved in the dispute that are both appropriate for use early in the dispute and are relatively inexpensive. Click Considerations for Valuation and Litigation  for an article written by Mark Pomykacz, the Managing Partner of Federal Appraisal, LLC, on the topic of litigation and real estate appraisal expert. Business Interruption Consulting, Damages Estimates Federal Appraisal, LLC provides consulting and appraisal services to individuals and companies suffering from business interruptions and damages from natural and man-made disasters and accidents.  If the loss or diminution of the use of your real estate is causing a loss in business income and/or is reducing the utility or value of your real estate, then Federal Appraisal, LLC may be able to help you recoup your damages.  Even tenants in damaged or reduced utility space can benefit from our services. The actual or alleged loss or damage might be from contractual breaches, environmental conditions, weather, physical damages, from external-to-the-site conditions, or from malfeasance or non-feasance. Federal Appraisal, LLC provides appraisals of damages, lost income and stigma for negotiations, and court testimony for or against insurance companies, property owners and defendants. Management Consulting Issues and Solutions for Attorneys Federal Appraisal provides user-defined scopes of services and agreed upon procedures services relating to attorneys. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Federal Appraisal, LLC provides the real estate and business appraisals and valuation reporting support required by the SEC.  See our SEC page for more information. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Federal Appraisal, LLC provides the real estate and business appraisals and valuation reporting support required by the IRS.  See our IRS page for more information. Federal Appraisal, LLC is not a law firm or an accounting firm.  As such it does not offer legal or audit opinions.  Federal Appraisal can obtain and/or manage those services for its clients, and Federal Appraisal can offer referral to law firms and/or accounting firms for such services.

Lease Audit/Analysis Federal Appraisal provides expert lease audit and lease analysis services. Commercial real estate leases are often very complex.  They often include unspecified rent and expenses beyond the base rent.  These include rent escalation clauses, operating expense passthroughs, real estate tax passthroughs, common area charges (CAM), electricity charges, other utilities charges, insurance charges and many others.  These rents and passthrough could have any number of methods of calculation, including a net passthrough, a pro rate share, a specified (non-pro rata) share, and the methods can change from year to year. They can have minimums and maximums and they can be based on changes over a base amount or index.  Even base rent calculations are often complicated, with periodic base rent adjustments such as steps, CPIs, and mark-to-market clauses. Analyzing leases is thus, difficult for the inexperienced.  Since lease payments can equal the market (sales) value of the real estate in as short as seven years, the consequences of not auditing a longer term commercial real estate lease can result in substantial losses. Services to Tenants Leased Fee or Leasehold Appraisal Federal Appraisal LLC provides appraisals of any type of lease interest, leased fee or leasehold interests, for any accounting or legal reasons. Lease Audit Lease audits examine the payments requested by landlords to determine their appropriateness.   Lease audits help identify errors and recover overcharges. Our process includes the analysis of the lease, the landlord's payment requests, the landlord's records to the extent permitted by the lease.  It can include a results presentation to and negotiations with the landlord to recover overcharges.   Lease Analysis Since the sum of the lease payments over a term of about seven to ten years can equal the market (sales) value of the real estate and since lease payments are often so complicated, all negotiations for longer term leases should be conducted with the counsel of expert real estate analysts, such as those at Federal Appraisal LLC.  We can provide buy/rent decision analysis, lease to lease cash equivalence comparisons, and other due diligence support and reporting. Services to Landlords Lease Audit Lease audits examine the payments requested by landlords to determine their appropriateness.   Lease audits help identify errors and recover undercharges. Our process includes the analysis of the lease, the landlord's payment requests, and the landlord's records.  It can include a results presentation to and negotiations with the tenants to justify the charges. Lease Analysis Since the sum of the lease payments over a term of about seven to ten years can equal the market (sales) value of the real estate and since lease payments are often so complicated, all negotiations for longer term leases should be conducted by expert real estate analysts, such as those at Federal Appraisal LLC.  We can provide buy/rent decision analysis, lease to lease cash equivalence comparisons, and other due diligence support and reporting. Services to Buyers and Sellers - Due Diligence We also provide and/or certify rent rolls, lease cash flow projections, and net present value calculations of lease income.

Federal Appraisal advises on Acquisition and/or Disposition Due Diligence Buying property is often the largest purchase for private citizens.  Buying and selling property is often the largest financial endeavor of larger entities and governments, as well.  Federal Appraisal provides Acquisition and/or Disposition Due Diligence valuation services to our client to ensure optimal outcomes.  In addition to market value appraisals, we provide offering price valuations, negotiated price valuations, and low/high risk price valuations.  We also provide fairness opinions, feasibility studies, and market studies.