Illinois DOT
If you have experience in eminent domain appraisals, we invite you to apply with IDOT (the Illinois Department of Transportation). Please contact Jennie LeSeure, Consultant Services Unit Chief, Bureau of Design and Environment via e-mail: Jenni.LeSeure@Illinois.gov Jennie will need a copy of your W-9 to set up an account for you in our EPAS system (Engineering Pre-qualification and Agreement System). Once she sets up an account for you, you will be able to apply as a fee appraiser to be considered for appraisal services. Both Certified General Real Estate Appraisers and Certified Residential Real Estate Appraisers will be considered. Our highest need right now is in extreme southern Illinois (District 9). The application process will require resume, 2 work samples, references, copies of completed eminent domain certificates, and additional information.
Staff appraisers and fee appraisers must have an active certified general real estate appraiser license or certified residential real estate appraiser license issued by the State of Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation without any appraisal disciplines. Appraisers must have the necessary background and experience, ability, and enterprise to gather the necessary facts, correlate and analyze them, demonstrate good judgment in forming opinions of fair market values and their appraisal reports must meet the department’s minimum requirements.
They must be able to interpret highway plans and be capable of determining the effect of the proposed improvement on the properties being appraised. Appraisers must be willing to prepare and testify to unbiased opinions of value without being an advocate for the department. Appraisers are advocates for their opinion of value. When called upon for service as expert witnesses, they must be capable of presenting, in a forthright and thorough manner, all of the facts considered in preparing the appraisal, and to defend, in a logical and convincing manner, the conclusions, which they have reached.
Donald J Martin, SCRP, RAA, GAA, CDEI
Realty Specialist V – Appraisal Unit Chief
Illinois Department of Transportation
To apply for this job email your details to Jenni.LeSeure@Illinois.gov