Kent Murphy Email & Phone Number

1. Conduct on-site appraisals and valuations of loan collateral and acquired properties. Includes defining highest and best use, documenting area and property characteristics, identifying environmental risks, applying accepted valuation methods, supporting conclusions with written narrative, and documenting results in written appraisal reports.2. Collect, investigate, document and maintain comparable sales information. Includes searching public records, verifying sale conditions, making property inspections, verifying financing terms, abstracting sale price, platting, and documenting results.3. Analyzes comparable sales information to support land value trends, adjustment factors, depreciation rates, capitalization rates, and valuation methods. Communicate this information as required by association procedures.4. Serves as a resource to credit and appraisal staffs which may include, but is not limited to, interpreting real estate market analysis, providing leadership or developing staff appraisal skills, performing appraisal reviews and answering technical appraisal questions.5. Verify accuracy of legal descriptions and documents property location by preparing acceptable plats.6. Represent and communicates the mission and values of Farm Credit Mid-America and complies with its conduct policy, security policy and confidentiality expectations.

Southwest Indiana

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES: 1. Knowledge of the appraisal process by the collection, preparation and distribution of comparable sales information. Includes, but is not limited to, performing courthouse searches, verifying buyer/seller motivations, property inspections, sales abstraction, platting and documenting findings. 2. Knowledge of the appraisal process by analyzing local and regional real estate markets. Includes, but is not limited to, determining farmland or rural values and trends, providing summary reports, developing information to support adjustments used in appraisal reports, and documenting community and economic data influencing property values. 3. Knowledge of the appraisal process by appraisals of loan collateral and acquired properties. Includes, but is not limited to on site inspections, accurately defining highest and best use, documenting property characteristics, accurately applying accepted valuation methods, supporting conclusions with written narrative, and documenting results in written appraisal reports.4. Evaluates the impact of environmental risks. Includes, but is not limited to performing site inspections, record searches, owner interviews, and documenting findings in written appraisal reports5. Evaluates the impact of existing and proposed government programs regarding farming, taxes, zoning, and the environment on property valuations.