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Scott H. Adcock, MAI

Education | Technical Training
Designations & Awards
| Business Experience

With over a decade of real estate appraisal experience, Art is a Certified General Appraiser in Louisiana and Mississippi. He has an extensive background in residential, commercial, industrial, retail, vacant, and varied special-purpose properties. He has a complete working knowledge of appraisal techniques and property values and has extensive experience in the analysis of major investment properties such as apartment complexes, hotels, and office buildings.


Other Certified Appraisers
Scott H. Adcock

R. Dunbar Argote
Lewis J. Derbes
Marshall F. Graham
W. Ross Shuffield
Henry W. Tatje
Education:
  • Bachelor of Arts Degree in History, Louisiana State University, completed 1991. Recipient of Louisiana State University Honor Scholarship (1985).
Technical Training:

Appraisal Courses Include:

  • Appraisal Principles, Course I110, Appraisal Institute, successfully challenged 1993;
  • Appraisal Procedures, Course I120, Appraisal Institute, successfully challenged 1993;
  • Basic Real Estate Appraisal Principles and Practices, Donaldson Educational Services,
    completed 1997;
  • Applied Residential Valuation, Donaldson Educational Services, completed 1997;
  • Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice and Basic Income Capitalization
    Concepts, Donaldson Educational Services, completed 1997;
  • Residential Case Studies and URAR Form Preparation, Donaldson Educational Services,
    completed 1997;
  • Advanced Income Capitalization Concepts and Applied Income Property Appraisal,
    Donaldson Educational Services, completed 1997;
  • Income Property Case Studies and Real Estate Investment Analysis, Donaldson
    Educational Services, completed 1997.
  • Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice, Donaldson Educational Services,
    completed 1998.
  • Standards of Professional Practice, Part A, Course 410, Appraisal Institute, completed
    1999.
  • Standards of Professional Practice, Part B, Course 420, Appraisal Institute, completed
    1999.
  • Advanced Income Capitalization, Course 510, Appraisal Institute, successfully challenged
    2002.
  • Highest and Best Use and Market Analysis, Course 520, Appraisal Institute, successfully
    challenged 2002.
  • Advanced Sales Comparison and Cost Approaches, Course 530, Appraisal Institute,
    successfully challenged 2002.
  • Report Writing and Valuation Analysis, Course 540, Appraisal Institute, successfully
    completed 2002.
  • Advanced Applications, Course 550, Appraisal Institute, successfully challenged 2003.

Other seminars attended on appraisal topics include: Commercial Case Studies in Highest and
Best (2003); Valuation of Detrimental Conditions in Real Estate (2005); Small Hotel/Motel
Valuation (2005); 7-hour National USPAP Update (2005); Analyzing Operating Expenses (2005)

Successfully completed all appraisal requirements for the MAI appraisal designation awarded by the Appraisal Institute.

Designations and Awards:
  • Louisiana Certified General Real Estate Appraiser; License No. G-0932
  • Mississippi Certified General Real Estate Appraiser; License No. GA-633
  • Texas State Certified General Real Estate Appraiser; License No. TX-1337393-G
  • Member of the Appraisal Institute, MAI Certificate No. 12678
Business Experience:
  • 1999 - Present President of The Adalia Corporation, a real estate appraisal and consulting
    firm affiliated with Argote, Derbes, Graham, Shuffield & Tatje, Inc., specializing in
    conducting market surveys, feasibility analyses, and commercial and industrial real estate
    appraisals.
  • 1992 - 1999 Commercial and Industrial Real Estate Appraiser and Feasibility Consultant,
    exclusively affiliated with Argote, Derbes, Graham, Shuffield & Tatje, Inc., conducting
    market surveys, feasibility analyses, and commercial and industrial real estate appraisals.
  • Appraisal assignments completed since 1992 include both vacant land (industrial,
    commercial and rural) and a wide range of proposed and existing facilities such as
    Apartments, Office Buildings, Hotels, Shopping Centers, Restaurants, Industrial Facilities,
    Condominiums and Subdivisions, as well as a number of special purpose properties. Some
    of the special purpose properties appraised include Automobile Dealerships, Day Care
    Centers, Psychiatric Hospitals, Nursing Homes, Student Dormitories, Movie Theaters,
    Commercial Greenhouses, Parking Garages, Shipyards, a Recreational Water Park and a
    Nuclear Reactor Simulator.
  • 1990 - 1992 Accounts Payable clerk for Universal Travel Agency, Inc., responsible for
    maintaining and processing accounts payable records for wholesale and retail travel
    business.
  • 1987 - 1990 Operations Manager for Lafourche Transportation, Inc., responsible for
    maintaining employee payroll, corporate taxes, work and maintenance schedules, and
    accounts receivable and payable.
  • 1986 Personal Computer Laboratory Counselor for Louisiana State University responsible
    for maintaining computer networks

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