PRACTICAL METHODS FOR APPRAISING LANDS, BUILDINGS BY GEORGE J. CRAIGEN, ASSISTANT CHIEF DEPUTY DEPARTMENT OF TAXES AND ASSESSMENTS, ILLUSTRATED WITH OVER FOO TYPES OF BUILDINGS. NCLUDING rules and tables for estimating the value Rules for computing the value of buildings in course Also a detailed description of the operation of the I Introduction. N presenting this book, I desire to thank the Hon. Lawson Purdy, President of the Department of Taxes and Assessments, of the City of New York, for many valuable suggestions. I also desire to thank Mr. Frank J. Bell, Chief Deputy of the above Department, whose twenty-five years' experience in that position, enabled him to place at the disposal of the writer much valuable information. To Mr. John A. R. Duntze, Clerk to the Executive Bureau, my thanks are due for the many photos and diagrams from which this book has been illustrated. In addition, the writer's connection with the same Department, covering a period of more than twelve years, together with the fact that many of the buildings shown herein were erected by the firm of which he was the practical head for more than twenty years, should indicate an experience enabling him to present the various subjects to the reader in an intelligent and practical manner. In submitting the methods for estimating the value of lands, buildings and improvements, it is not to be expected that the information or computations contained. therein, will be altogether new to every reader. But, to paraphrase Lincoln, Some of the readers may know all the facts, All of the readers may know some of the facts, Therefore, if any reader, however well informed, should find some stray bit of information or suggestion, which would in any way assist him in arriving at a more accurate or speedy solution of the difficult problems of real estate values, then the object for which this book has been compiled and published, will have been accomplished. 257869 GEORGE J. Craigen. |