I have extensive experience in the real estate brokerage business and have worked as both a field and review appraiser, and in a supervisory capacity to apprentice appraisers. I worked along-side Donald Reape, MAI, for 39 years and owned and operated Reape Jeffers & Associates, Real Estate Appraisers, Inc., from 2001 until 2024 before launching Jeffers Appraisals LLC.

I hold the SRA and AI-RRS designations from the Appraisal Institute and I am a graduate of Rosemont College. I was the 2012 President of the Board of Directors of the Philadelphia Metropolitan Chapter of the Appraisal Institute, and am a past Chair of its Government Relations Committee where I served for 6 years.

About the Appraisal Institute

The Appraisal Institute is a global professional association of real estate appraisers, with nearly 16,000 professionals in almost 50 countries throughout the world. Its mission is to advance professionalism and ethics, global standards, methodologies, and practices through the professional development of property economics worldwide.

“The Appraisal Institute was established in 1991, when the American Institute of Real Estate Appraisers (AIREA) and the Society of Real Estate Appraisers unified. Founded in the 1930s, AIREA and the Society were created to help standardize the appraisal process by promoting professional education and upholding high ethical standards.“

– Appraisal Institute

The designations offered by The Appraisal Institute are: MAI, SRA, SRPA, MAI-GRS, SRA-RRS. 

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