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Ryan Hlubb Profiled by Baltimore Sun
Excerpt from an article by By Nancy Jones-Bonbrest in The Baltimore Sun
At Work series, March 22, 2009.
Ryan Hlubb
Appraiser/partner with Hlubb Realty Advisors, Ellicott City
Salary: $105,000
Age: 28
Years on the job: 7
How he got started: Ryan Hlubb got his first taste of the job of an appraiser when he was a teenager and helped his father, who is also an appraiser, with tasks such as taking photographs and doing research. After high school, Hlubb attended the University of Maryland, Baltimore County as a computer science major but never finished. Instead, he went to work as a technical support supervisor for a digital security company. Later, he decided to go to work with his father as a commercial appraiser. He's now finishing his bachelor's degree through an online real estate program at Marylhurst University in Oregon.
Hlubb is a certified general appraiser in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington, D.C. He holds an SRA designation with the Appraisal Institute and serves as president of the Maryland Chapter of the Appraisal Institute.
Typical day: The same fundamentals of residential appraising apply to commercial appraising, Hlubb says. His job is a mix of research, analysis and on-site inspections in an effort to come up with the fair-market value of a property.
The good: "You're not confined to your desk," said Hlubb, adding that he also enjoys seeing redevelopment in urban areas like Baltimore and Washington.
The bad: "Deadlines and uncooperative clients or property owners."
Philosophy: "I try to be unbiased and fair."