Mary Cummins, Real Estate Appraiser, Animal Advocates, Los Angeles, California

Mary Cummins, Real Estate Appraiser, Animal Advocates, Los Angeles, California
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Monday, February 24, 2025

Recreating Burned Destroyed Homes on Paper for Real Estate Appraisals by Mary Cummins

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When doing post fire appraisal inspections the appraiser has to recreate the destroyed home on paper. I do this by measuring the remaining footings or partial walls. I then reconcile these measurements with building permits, Google satellite image map measurements and recorded plans if available. It's important to be able to tell the difference between a home footing and the base of another type of structure such as a patio. I use an iPhone and Leica Disto. The below measurements were taken by my iPhone because I can take a photo of my measurements. I can't do that with my Disto. 

Here's an old article I wrote about using Google maps to measure buildings. I use a measuring device but will also use Google maps to cross reference and reconcile measurements of destroyed buildings. Remember that not all structures and roofs are the actual home. There are patios, porches, sheds, garages, carports... 
https://mary--cummins.blogspot.com/2016/03/using-google-maps-to-get-rough-building.html










Mary Cummins of Cummins Real Estate is a certified residential licensed appraiser in Los Angeles, California. Mary Cummins is licensed by the California Bureau of Real Estate appraisers and has over 35 years of experience.


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