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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
- Provided assistance to clients appearing before Washington's 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) 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 12 hours, with 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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