Robert “Bobby” Rodriguez
Certified Residential Real Estate Appraiser
California Lic. #AR026217
Residential real estate appraiser · Los Angeles
Private appraisals of one to four unit residential property across Los Angeles County.
Appraiser
Alpha Beta Appraisal is the independent appraisal practice of Robert “Bobby” Rodriguez, a California Certified Residential Real Estate Appraiser who has been valuing homes since 2000 and has run his own firm in Los Angeles since 2003.
Bobby began as a trainee at Mitchell Maxwell & Jackson in New York, appraising co-ops, condos and houses in Manhattan and Brooklyn. He moved to Los Angeles in 2001 as a licensed appraiser with Mighty Appraisal, and founded Alpha Beta Appraisal two years later. His focus since then has been one to four unit residential property, with a specialty in unique homes, high-value homes and complex assignments.
Today his appraisal work is private rather than lender-driven. Clients come to him when a value has to stand on its own: settling an estate, dividing property in a divorce, documenting a home's worth before and after a fire, or pricing a buyout between co-owners. Many of those assignments are retrospective, valuing a property as of a date in the past.
Los Angeles housing rarely fits a template, and his reports deal with what makes each property different: accessory units, hillside sites, historic preservation zones, rent-controlled units and full renovations. Each report sets out the comparable sales, the adjustments and the reasoning so the conclusion can be examined. His experience includes court testimony.
His continuing education includes coursework through The Appraisal School and the Appraisal Institute in expert witness testimony, income capitalization, quantitative and regression analysis, green building techniques and USPAP.
Bobby also holds a California real estate license (DRE #01939553) and works in residential and commercial sales. That work is separate from Alpha Beta Appraisal.
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Anyone can confirm an appraiser's license status by searching the name or license number on the bureau's website, brea.ca.gov.
Practice
Including the ones that resist easy comparison: hillside lots, full renovations, homes with a pool, and houses inside historic preservation zones.
A house with a second unit, a guest house or a converted garage. Permit status and how the market pays for the extra unit are both addressed in the report.
Small income property, where rent control status, actual rents and unit condition move the value as much as the building does.
These are private appraisals, prepared for the client named in the report and the use stated in it. They are not written for mortgage lending; a lender orders its own.
Market area
This list is representative. Assignments are taken elsewhere in Los Angeles County when the property type and market are a fit.
Questions
Search the name Robert Rodriguez or license number AR026217 on the California Bureau of Real Estate Appraisers website, brea.ca.gov. The record shows the license level and whether it is current.
Residential property of one to four units: single-family homes, homes with accessory dwelling units, duplexes, triplexes and fourplexes in Los Angeles County.
No. These are private appraisals for the client and use named in the report. Lenders order their own appraisal through their own channels.
An opinion of value as of a date in the past, such as a date of death, a date of separation or the day before a fire. The analysis uses the market as it stood on that date.
Yes. The report and its conclusions go to the client and to the people the client names. Nobody else receives them without the client's say, except where the law, a court or the state appraisal regulator requires it.