PREP for better decisions

PREP Principal: Susan T Sweet, CGA, earned a BA with Honors from the University of Chicago and an MBA from the University of Virginia's Darden School

Susan Sweet developed skills in competitive professional arenas

• 15 years as a real estate banker, financing residential subdivisions and commercial properties, during both healthy and falling markets
• 18 years as a Capitol Hill economic policy staffer, including time with the Senate Banking Committee and Joint Economic Committee, giving a broad overview of economic and financial issues, with a conviction that diverse sources bring change -- technology, regulation, government, global policy -- and we must adjust with it
• 7 years as a real estate appraiser, completing requirements to be a Certified General Appraiser by operating an independent appraisal firm 

During those rough-and-tumble years, she heard, "If you can't explain a complex idea simply, you don't understand it well enough." Practical Real Estate Perspectives works to apply that maxim to real estate values. Merging hard facts and numbers with the opinions and trends that influence decisions should produce a "that makes sense" conclusion.