If there’s an appraisal on the property you don’t necessarily have a right to read it, and even if you do you may not learn anything of substance from it. If the appraisal is extremely focused on valuing the site without going into the analysis of what would go on the site then all you’re going to get is a number.
If the financial planner doesn’t have the marketing materials necessary to sell to a savvy investor then it seems to me the only investors buying will be the non-savvy. That doesn’t sound too promising.
BTW, 300 manufacturing jobs should create some local service jobs too. 4,000 jobs is a pretty big stretch, though. However, even if the 4,000 figure was right, so what? To see what kinds of effects adding jobs in the desert has on local RE go on over to Calipatra where the prison was built. They added a ton of high-dollar jobs over there but it didn’t lead to price increases compared to other areas of the Imperial Valley. There’s just too much room for expansion to create the sense of scarcity needed to make one piece of scrub more valuable than another.
If you do get an appraisal and you want help deciphering any of it just let me know. I don’t know ‘nuttin about Yuma but I do know about appraisals.
