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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: APRIL 8, 2008
DeWan & Schott Appraisal Associates LLC to Sponsor Two Conferences for Local Land Trusts
As part of their outreach to the land trust community throughout the region, partners Michael DeWan and Rob Schott of the brand-new real estate appraisal firm DeWan & Schott Appraisal Associates, LLC are sponsoring two upcoming events. The first is the 16th annual Northeast Land Trust Conference, being held April 10-12 at the Thayer Hotel, West Point. This conference is being convened by the Land Trust Alliance, a national organization representing more than 1,600 land trusts across America. Its mission is to promote voluntary private land conservation to benefit communities and natural systems.
Next month, DeWan & Schott will be sponsoring a two-part program for land trusts and property owners featuring Stephen Small, renowned Boston-based attorney and author, best known in the land trust community for his handbook, Preserving Family Lands. Presented by the Delaware Highlands Conservancy, Small will be speaking on Wednesday, May 28th from 6:00 - 8:00 pm at the CVI Building in Ferndale, Sullivan County, New York. The next day, Thursday May 29, he will be speaking from 8:30 am - 12:00 noon at The Carrus Institute at the Center for Discovery, Harris, New York.
“Having just completed a ten-year volunteer stint as the President of the Woodstock Land Conservancy in my hometown, I am acutely aware of the growing need for professional valuation expertise - both on the part of land trusts and property owners,” said partner Michael DeWan. “Land trusts are coming under greater scrutiny by the IRS to assure that gifts of land and conservation easements made to them are well documented and professionally appraised. And more and more property owners are taking full advantage of State and Federal incentives to make such charitable contributions. Appraisers are a vital link between these parties, providing answers to such questions as, ‘How much would a conservation easement on my 100-acre property be worth? What is the best way to preserve our family’s land and still be able to live on it and pass it on to our children?’ Co-sponsoring these educational events is a great way for us to meet those land trusts and property owners in our region who are doing this great work.”
For more information about the Land Trust Alliance Northeast Conference, call LTA’s Northeast Program in Saratoga Springs at 518-587-0774 or go to <http://www.lta.org/training/lct_ne.htm>. For more information about Stephen Small’s talks in May, contact Sue Currier, Executive Director of the Delaware Highlands Conservancy at 570-226-3164, or at info@delawarehighlands.org <mailto:info@delawarehighlands.org>.
DeWan & Schott Appraisal Associates, LLC was created in March 2008, to provide the highest-quality real estate valuation service throughout the Hudson Valley and beyond, serving clients in the financial, commercial, legal, nonprofit and governmental communities, as well as individual property owners. Both partners had worked at L. T. Bookhout, Inc. -Michael for 15 years, Rob for five years. Upon retiring from full-time appraisal practice after 44 years, Leland T. Bookhout, MAI, SRA has associated himself with the new firm as consultant appraiser. For more information, call Michael or Rob at (845)758-5090 or go to their website, www.dewanandschott.com <http://www.dwewanandschott.com> .
DeWan & Schott Appraisal Associates LLC to Sponsor Two Conferences for Local Land Trusts
As part of their outreach to the land trust community throughout the region, partners Michael DeWan and Rob Schott of the brand-new real estate appraisal firm DeWan & Schott Appraisal Associates, LLC are sponsoring two upcoming events. The first is the 16th annual Northeast Land Trust Conference, being held April 10-12 at the Thayer Hotel, West Point. This conference is being convened by the Land Trust Alliance, a national organization representing more than 1,600 land trusts across America. Its mission is to promote voluntary private land conservation to benefit communities and natural systems.
Next month, DeWan & Schott will be sponsoring a two-part program for land trusts and property owners featuring Stephen Small, renowned Boston-based attorney and author, best known in the land trust community for his handbook, Preserving Family Lands. Presented by the Delaware Highlands Conservancy, Small will be speaking on Wednesday, May 28th from 6:00 - 8:00 pm at the CVI Building in Ferndale, Sullivan County, New York. The next day, Thursday May 29, he will be speaking from 8:30 am - 12:00 noon at The Carrus Institute at the Center for Discovery, Harris, New York.
“Having just completed a ten-year volunteer stint as the President of the Woodstock Land Conservancy in my hometown, I am acutely aware of the growing need for professional valuation expertise - both on the part of land trusts and property owners,” said partner Michael DeWan. “Land trusts are coming under greater scrutiny by the IRS to assure that gifts of land and conservation easements made to them are well documented and professionally appraised. And more and more property owners are taking full advantage of State and Federal incentives to make such charitable contributions. Appraisers are a vital link between these parties, providing answers to such questions as, ‘How much would a conservation easement on my 100-acre property be worth? What is the best way to preserve our family’s land and still be able to live on it and pass it on to our children?’ Co-sponsoring these educational events is a great way for us to meet those land trusts and property owners in our region who are doing this great work.”
For more information about the Land Trust Alliance Northeast Conference, call LTA’s Northeast Program in Saratoga Springs at 518-587-0774 or go to <http://www.lta.org/training/lct_ne.htm>. For more information about Stephen Small’s talks in May, contact Sue Currier, Executive Director of the Delaware Highlands Conservancy at 570-226-3164, or at info@delawarehighlands.org <mailto:info@delawarehighlands.org>.
DeWan & Schott Appraisal Associates, LLC was created in March 2008, to provide the highest-quality real estate valuation service throughout the Hudson Valley and beyond, serving clients in the financial, commercial, legal, nonprofit and governmental communities, as well as individual property owners. Both partners had worked at L. T. Bookhout, Inc. -Michael for 15 years, Rob for five years. Upon retiring from full-time appraisal practice after 44 years, Leland T. Bookhout, MAI, SRA has associated himself with the new firm as consultant appraiser. For more information, call Michael or Rob at (845)758-5090 or go to their website, www.dewanandschott.com <http://www.dwewanandschott.com> .