The founder, André Suissa, has been practicing real estate for the past 11 years with licenses in Colorado and Texas as a general real estate appraiser and broker. He has been an MAI designated member since 2011, an Urban Land Institute Young Member since 2008, and started a Texas-based commercial appraisal company in 2012. In addition, he was a former tax consultant for four years, an arbitrator for the Comptroller of Public Accounts in Texas for nine years, President/board member of the Shore Condominiums, Austin, TX ($1 million budget); the founder/treasurer to the Rainey Neighbors Association, Austin, TX, and involved in various philanthropy organizations like the Anti-Defamation League and Young Adult Division of Jewish Colorado. He has written over 350 commercial narrative reports with a wide variety of intended uses, premises, and complexities with a total valuation of over $500 million. He is experienced in performing various complex scopes of work for property types such as Condominiums, Convenience Stores, Ground Leases, Hotel, Industrial (Flex/Warehouse), Medical Office, Mixed-Use, Multi-Family, Office, Restaurant, Retail, Single-Family, Student Apartment, Subdivision, Special-Purpose (cemetery, veterinary clinic, commercial aviation hangar), and Vacant Land (raw, entitled, developed, etc.)