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Legal Biography
Richard Hagar SRA works for American Home Appraisals he's:
- A licensed real estate agent since 1976
- Certified real estate appraiser since 1986
- An SRA with the Appraisal Institute
- One of the more senior appraisers in the State
- A major focus of his practice is providing appraisals and consulting services to the legal industry.
- He's qualified as a expert witness in Washington and Colorado (Federal Court)
- Provided consultation to clients appearing before the State of Washington Supreme Court.
- Mr. Hagar creates and provides classes for Attorneys, Appraisers, Agents, and Mortgage Brokers.
- He helped write the laws that govern the mortgage industry (RCW 19.146 & RCW 18.310) and
has a very popular class on: Real Estate ~ Agent, Appraiser, and Mortgage ~ Fraud
The class is the first in the nation to be approved for all real estate professionals.
A memorable case was the deposition of an opposing appraiser, whos work had so many short comings,
the deposition took more than 8 hours. The case successfully settled following the deposition.
Mr. Hagar said the fun part was making a sloppy appraiser squirm for hours.
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