Valuation charges
Sir.—l too have recent!v ieen through the valuation arce experienced by “Davight Robbery.” Surely hough, he must agree that it akes considerable skill and raining to be able to phone he Valuation Department nd ask the legal description f a piece of land, nol to tention being able to count
- rooms and list them. It must >; be very time-consuming look,l ing up a table to see how e much a house built a certain r time ago is supposed to have :, depreciated. Then there comes - the crunch, subtracting the - age of the house from 100 to establish the useful time left to it. It must be a comfort to the valuer that he does not have to notice if the house is ’ recently painted inside or out, i in a good state of repair, or . the grounds cared for, the . mental strain on top of his 3 extensive training and experi- . ence might prove fatal. — f Yours, etc., , LINDA S. CONSTABLE. t : October 2, 1975.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33967, 7 October 1975, Page 20
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