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TONY CORREIA, ARA
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Tony Correia, an Accredited Rural Appraiser, specializes in difficult valuation assignments, including the appraisal of large, complex, agricultural properties, with a specific focus on the wine industry, and water rights. He is the president of Correia - Xavier, Inc., and is an instructor of appraisal courses and seminars throughout the nation and Mexico, and is also a frequent public speaker on agricultural, appraisal, taxation, and estate planning issues, and the vineyard and wine industries. He has been a guest speaker for many organizations, including the American Bar Association, the Appraisal Institute, the American Society of Appraisers, the Land Trust Alliance, the California CPA Education Foundation, and many institutions of higher education. Tony is also qualified as an Expert Witness in many courts, a member and past chairman of the Fresno County Tax Assessment Appeals Board, a past President of the California Chapter of the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers, and member and past president of Chapter 50 of the International Right of Way Association.

After undergraduate work at Saint Mary’s College of California and Syracuse University, Tony graduated from California State University, Fresno, with a major and post-graduate work in English and a second major in Russian. Prior pursuits include former lives as a grape grower and as a military intelligence analyst, cryptologist, and linguist. Tony has also been employed in various government positions, including a tour as an IRS examiner. He now lives in Sonoma, with his wife Stephanie, and enjoys travel, great literature and music, fast cars, slow cooking, gardening, the study of wine, and the pursuit of knowledge.

A few of my recent publications

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

♦ Bachelor of Arts Degree - California State University, Fresno, 1970, Graduate School, 1970 - 72
♦ American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers (ASFMRA): Advanced
Rural Appraisal; Principles of Rural Appraisal; Administrative Appraisal Review; Income
Capitalization Leveraged; Advanced Appraisal Review; Report Writing; Standards and
Ethics; Advanced Resources, Conservation Easements, Fractional Interests
♦ Appraisal Institute: Appraisal Regulations - Federal Banking Agencies; Business
Valuation Part I & II; Vineyard & Winery Valuation; Wetlands; “The Masters Class,”
Undivided Interests, Case Studies in Limited Partnerships and Common Tenancies
♦ American Society of Appraisers (ASA): Principles of Business Valuation; Parts One -
Four; BV201 – BV204
♦ International Right of Way Association (IR/WA): Appraisal of Partial Acquisitions;
Legal Aspects of Easements; The Valuation of Easements
♦ Society of Real Estate Appraisers: Introduction to Appraising Real Property

EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE

Mr. Correia instructed the Introductory Class in Farm Appraisal at California State University, Fresno, from 1984 to 1996, and has developed, instructed, or coinstructed, the following classes, for the respective professional associations, in the following locations:
♦ Valuation of Conservation Easements, ASFMRA, Appraisal Institute, American Society of Appraisers, and the Land Trust Alliance
♦ Conservation Easement Appraisal, ASFMRA, Calif., and the Appraisal Institute, Hawaii
♦ Agricultural Lease Valuation, ASFMRA, the Appraisal Institute, and the State of Hawaii, Hawaii
♦ Vineyard Valuation, Appraisal Institute, California
♦ Summer Wine; Vineyard and Winery Valuation, ASFMRA, ASA and the Appraisal Institute, California
♦ Valuation of Winery Assets, Appraisal Institute, Washington
♦ Agricultural Real Estate Valuation and Business Enterprise Value, ASFMRA, Texas
♦ Appraising Permanent Plantings in Rapidly Changing Markets, ASFMRA, California, and Valuation 2000
♦ Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Property Valuation; ASFMRA, ASA and the Appraisal
Institute, Valuation 2000
♦ The Appraisal of Agricultural Related Businesses, ASFMRA and the ASA, New Jersey, and California
♦ Valuation of Easements, IR/WA, California;
♦ Fundamentals of Rural Appraisal, ASFMRA, California;
♦ Principles of Rural Appraisal, the Mexican Institute of Valuation, Mazatlan and Mexico City, Mexico
♦ Administrative Appraisal Review, ASFMRA, California, Arizona, and Montana;
♦ Advanced Income Capitalization, UnLeveraged, ASFMRA, California, Montana, and North Carolina
♦ Advanced Resources (Water, Minerals & Timber), ASFMRA, Colorado;
♦ Rate Extraction, ASFMRA, Louisiana, Texas, Oregon, and Florida;
♦ Advanced Rural Case Studies, ASFMRA and the Appraisal Institute, California;
♦ The Appraisal of Permanent Plantings, ASFMRA, California, Arizona, Oregon, and Florida

MISCELLANEOUS

Mr. Correia is currently a certified instructor for the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers and has instructed appraisal classes in California, Hawaii, Arizona, Nevada, Montana, Colorado, Oregon, North Carolina, New Jersey, Texas, Louisiana, Florida and Mexico. He has been a guest lecturer at UC Davis; UC Santa Barbara, Sonoma State University, California State University, Fresno; Fresno City College; the Institute of Agribusiness at Santa Clara University; the Wine Industry Financial Symposium, the Vineyard Economics Seminar in Napa; The University of Zacatecas in Mexico, and the California Agribusiness Conference. Mr. Correia has been invited to speak before meetings of the Land Trust Alliance, American Bankers Association, American Bar Association, Appraisal Institute, American Society of Appraisers, California Society of Certified Public Accountants, Columbia
River, California and Arizona Chapters of the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers (ASFMRA), San Joaquin Valley Ag Lenders Society, the San Francisco Bay, Southern California, and San Joaquin Valley Chapters of the Appraisal Institute, San Joaquin Valley Chapter of the International Right of Way Association, Rotary Clubs, Society of Real Estate Appraisers, and the Central Region Assessor's Association. In addition, Mr. Correia has appeared on local and national television and radio regarding Agricultural Property Values, and is frequently interviewed and quoted by newspapers and other print media.