Wilburn Day
San Antonio, Texas 78221
***********@*****.***
September 14, 2013
To whom it may concern:
I believe my life and professional experience would qualify me to be a Navigator
in the Affordable Health Care. Having been self-employed most my life, I have
developed the ability meet people and have excellent oral skills. I was a self-
employed Commercial Real Estate Appraiser. To get work I made “cold” calls to
the major banks and financial institutions in San Antonio, Houston and Dallas to
obtain real estate projects to appraise. By presenting myself to management, I
usually received appraisal projects. I developed these attributes, in part, as an actor
in most of the theaters of Houston over the past twenty years. I went to auditions
and usually was selected for a part in a play. I am a progressive, philosophically
and politically, and a supporter of the Affordable Care Health program.
Commercial Appraising is a very technical job. It requires an ability to write
research papers, do critical and analytical thinking. I also was the founder of the
Bexar Area Harm Reduction Coalition, and got the necessary inancing for its
activities by writing and obtaining $100,000 in grants for this group. I am also a
lay chaplain at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church having had a six month orientation for
the position. I have great empathy for people.
As an experienced commercial real estate appraiser, practicing in Texas, Louisiana,
Kansas and California, I have been self-employed, a self-promoter, entrepreneurial
spirit, and strong background in various commercial projects, and land analysis,
valuation and the real estate market in general. The aggregate demand analysis
considers various factors leading to a complete understanding of market conditions
and needs of my clients. This technique provides a thoughtful and thorough
analysis to make site selections and analysis on distance to market served,
proximity of labor force and economic development incentives, create lease versus
purchase analysis (using differential cash flow technique, quantitative analyses.
Evaluate leasehold structuring (such as sale/leasebacks, build-to-suit leases,
operating versus capital leases) and negotiate in keeping with company and
operation team objectives. Negotiate all real property contracts, co-manages design
and construction of site plan/layout and office and industrial space with
Construction Department. Forecast of operating and capital budgets for purpose of
expansion and contraction as an appraiser and in sales based on aggregate demand
analysis.
I respectfully submit my resume detailing various types of real estate projects in
which I have participated. I have particular interest in land development projects
involving land acquisition and mineral rights, and leasing. I have appraised large
tracts of rural properties and I certainly know my way around county deed records.
I believe that this experience would be useful to your organization. I have
extensive knowledge of the real estate market in Bexar County and generally in
other areas in Texas. I am a self-promoter, and have dealt with bank officials,
mortgage brokers, real estate developers and property owners. I also have an array
of excellent references of people from various walks of life, including my appraiser
peers.
Sincerely yours,
Wilburn Day
Education:
University of Texas: Austin
Major in History
Minor Government
Completed 100 hours.
Left school due to family issues and lack of money
Employment History
Commercial Real Estate Appraiser.
Love and Dugger, now Dugger, Canaday, and Grafe, Inc,
1972 to 1977: 111 Soledad St. San Antoinio, Texas 210-***-****. 1971 to 1979.
Employed 5 years: Laid off Lack of Work:
Waldo Luedemann and Associates
Commercial Real Estate Appraiser
**************@*********.***
Self Employed: 1985 to 2005
2002-2003: Bexar County Board of Review:Heard property owner protest of
county tax appraisals. Held hearings, reviewed county appraisals heard testimony
from both county appraisers and property owners, made independent determination
of property value(s) for the record.
Appraisal Work Description: Prepared narrative valuations of the property,
including estimates of land, market, and income value. Methodologies required are
the gathering of comparable land, and market sales, annual income and expense
data, variable occupancy rates, capitalization rates from the market sources or
obtaining lending rates from actual lenders, depreciation rates, discounted cash
flow analysis, risk analysis, variable income change analysis, forecasting net
income. Other techniques are aggregate demand analysis or demand projections,
comparable sales of vacant land, cost analysis, sales of comparable improved
properties, gathered timely comparable market and income data and determining
the degree of comparability to the subject and income capitalization analysis.
Summarize conclusions of the property analysis provide, a final value of land and
improvements.
Experience:
Types of Interest Appraised:
My work background included Residential and Commercial Subdivisions,
Apartments, Condominiums, Office Buildings, Churches, Shopping Malls, Hotels,
Restaurants, Vacant land. I also represented various cities, counties and the State of
Texas in eminent domain hearings.
Professional Training:
University of Texas: The Appraisal of Real Estate
Various seminars :
American Institute of Real Estate Appraisers: Residential Subdivision Analysis,
Commercial Property Appraisal, Income Property Analysis, Market and Aggregate
Demand Analysis. Commercial Property Report Writing.
Texas A & M: Real Estate Ethics, Problems In
Commercial Property Appraising.
Income Approach,
Market Approach
University of Houston Real Estate Appraisal Ethics
Trinity University: Real Estate Ethics
Professional References:
Scruggs Love MAI 830-***-****
Richard Dugger MAI 210-***-****
Waldo Luedemann MAI 713-***-****
Mike Bubela MAI **********@*****.***
Personal References:
Neel Lane, Senior Partner at Akin Gump nlane@akin
The Reverend Michael Chalk
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, ******@*******-**.***
John Woodward Taz Films, Inc. 323-***-****
8589 Appian Way
Los Angeles, CA 9004
Community Activities:
Westheimer Social Ministry, Board Member, Houston
San Antonio Junior Chamber of Commerce
St. Marks’ Episcopal Church: Lay Chaplain, San Antonio, Texas.
Bexar Area Harm Reduction Coalition: Founder