Descriptions

Description:

To provide training in the agricultural valuation area, TAAD is sponsoring a one-day seminar designed to teach the basics of developing ag values and calculating rollbacks as well as building ag schedules (using cash and share leases).

Cancellation/Refund Policy: Requests for refunds must be in writing and submitted in writing by October 3, 2023; a $75 cancellation fee will be deducted.  No refunds for cancellations later than October 3, 2023.

Registration fees must reflect current membership status.

Description:

Topics covered:

Plats & Reading Deeds

• Why platting is required
• Legal descriptions
• Anatomy of a deed
• Recording a deed
• The “words of conveyance”
• Instruments conveying title
• Monuments
• Plat creation and regulation
• Regulatory systems
• Conflicts of interest, civil penalties
• Subdivisions
• Legal issues

Records & Title Transfers

• Covenants and warrantees
• Contract for sale
• Contract for deed
• Life estates and undivided interests
• Estate administration
• Homestead issues
• Community and separate property
• Intestacy
• Adverse possession
• Separate ownership of land/improvements
• Disputed title
• Taxing unit boundary disputes
• Passing of title, muniment of title

Cancellation/Refund Policy: Requests for refunds must be in writing and submitted in writing by October 16, 2023; a $75 cancellation fee will be deducted.  No refunds for cancellations later than October 16, 2023.

Registration fees must reflect current membership status.

Description:

TAAD presents a seminar for CAD staff that administer exemptions, both partial and total. This is a two-day seminar that outlines major categories of property tax exemptions, as well as litigation and administrative and application issues associated with them:

• Residence Homesteads
• Charitable Organizations and Housing
• Business Exemptions
• Other Exemptions and Application/Administrative Issues
• New exemptions from 88^th Session

Cancellation/Refund Policy: Requests for refunds must be in writing and submitted in writing by October 17, 2023; a $75 cancellation fee will be deducted.  No refunds for cancellations later than October 17, 2023.

Registration fees must reflect current membership status.

Description:

Topics covered:

• Governance of PVS
• Math of the Alternate Test
• How PTAD selects ISDs, Categories, Strata, and Individual Accounts
• How PTAD adjusts Values in the PVS
• How to Interpret PVS Reports
• Appealing the PVS
• The PVS and School Finance

Cancellation/Refund Policy: Requests for refunds must be in writing and submitted in writing by October 19, 2023; a $75 cancellation fee will be deducted.  No refunds for cancellations later than October 19, 2023.

Registration fees must reflect current membership status.

Description:

A seminar that will take you through the basics of managing personnel and the usual tasks a manager is responsible for in the day-to-day life of an office.  The material contains general guidelines for these tasks and will use scenarios to help you gain working knowledge and practice finding solutions for these skills.

Topics covered:

• Identify the USPAP Standards relating the appraisal management
• Recognize Organizational Structure
• Apply Planning and Goal Setting in your organization
• Understand Budget Development
• Know how to Select New Employees & Recruit
• Develop Employee Training
• Performance Plans
• Know How to Discipline and Coach Employees
• Wrap up & Final Questions

Cancellation/Refund Policy: Requests for refunds must be in writing and submitted by March 18, 2024; a $75 cancellation fee will be deducted.  No refunds for cancellations after March 18, 2024.

Registration fees must reflect current membership status.

Description:

 The purpose of this workshop is to provide training mandated by Texas Government Code, Chapter 2256. This two-day seminar meets the required 10 hours of PFIA training needed every two years by all individuals serving as financial officer, treasurer or investment officer of a local government, including an appraisal district.  TAAD does not plan to hold this event virtually in 2023.  In-person only.

 CLASS INFORMATION

Topics discussed: Public Funds Investment Act Compliance, Texas Public Funds Collateral Act, developing a certificate of deposit program, investment policies, investment basics, factors that affect interest rates, using excel for investment controls, investment pools, internet resources for investment decisions, internal controls, the budgeting process, computer security awareness controls and business impact analysis.

Cancellation/Refund Policy: Requests for refunds must be in writing and submitted by October 11, 2023; a $100 cancellation fee will be deducted.  No refunds for cancellations after October 11, 2023.

Registration fees must reflect current membership status.

Description:

This workshop will review the characteristics that determine construction quality for residential properties by use of the Marshall & Swift Valuation Service.

House images will be included in the presentation and will lead to extensive classroom participation. Actual construction costs will also be considered as a guide to determining quality. Images will also assist in the discussion on rating homes for condition in relationship to the definition and description for each condition rating. The determination of condition will lead directly into calculations for effective age.

Effective age will be defined and demonstrated on how to extract it from the market. Several data sets will be provided for the students to calculate effective age and how to use for the development of a depreciation or percent good table. Topics discussed are: USPAP review, cost approach, quality, condition, physical deterioration using effective age, functional obsolescence, external obsolescence and depreciation and effective age extraction.

Cancellation/Refund Policy: Requests for refunds must be in writing and submitted by March 20, 2024; a $75 cancellation fee will be deducted.  No refunds for cancellations after March 20, 2024.

Registration fees must reflect current membership status.

Description:

This seminar focuses on managing personnel.  The material contains general guidelines for handling employees and takes you through various scenarios to help find solutions happening every day in the appraisal office.  This is an interactive workshop that encourages and solicits attendee participation and problem solving.  Attendees are encouraged to provide their own situations that they may have dealt with in the past.

• Learn Effective Communication
• Develop Better Listening Skills
• Working with Difficult People
• Hiring Employees and Recruitment
• Employee Development
• Motivating Employees
• Delegation
• Performance Evaluations
• Discipline and Coaching

Cancellation/Refund Policy: Requests for refunds must be in writing and submitted by March 19, 2024; a $75 cancellation fee will be deducted.  No refunds for cancellations after March 19, 2024.

Registration fees must reflect current membership status.

Description:

The purpose of this workshop is to provide some guidance and suggestions on the process of analysis and valuation of metal buildings converted to living areas, or what we call “barndominiums.”  These are structures that appear to be metal-clad farm buildings, but part or all the structure has been finished on the interior and used as living area. Some are used as a temporary living area while the owners construct a new stick-built home, while others are built as a permanent residence. The framing can be pole or steel.

Cancellation/Refund Policy: Requests for refunds must be in writing and submitted in writing by March 21, 2024; a $75 cancellation fee will be deducted.  No refunds for cancellations later than March 21, 2024.

Registration fees must reflect current membership status.

Description:

Topics for this session include history, trends, how to distinguish between manufactured homes, modular homes, panelized homes and pre-cut or kit homes, financing and Internet sources for research and information. All three approaches to value will be discussed and examples given. Considerable time will be spent on developing replacement cost new from the marketplace, comparing to cost manuals, and calculating indexes. Depreciation and gross rent multipliers will be extracted from actual market data.

Cancellation/Refund Policy: Requests for refunds must be in writing and submitted in writing by March 22, 2024; a $75 cancellation fee will be deducted.  No refunds for cancellations later than March 22, 2024.

Registration fees must reflect current membership status.

Description:

To provide training in this area, TAAD is sponsoring a one-day seminar designed to teach the basics of wildlife management activities, determining qualifications for wildlife appraisal, and calculating the value of property under wildlife appraisal. You will learn key features to look for when monitoring wildlife properties.  This year’s seminar has new material, new examples and more to offer!  

Cancellation/Refund Policy: Requests for refunds must be in writing and submitted by October 3, 2023; a $75 cancellation fee will be deducted.  No refunds for cancellations after October 3, 2023.

Registration fees must reflect current membership status.