Name: George Shahwah Jr., MAI
Title: President, Connecticut Chapter of the Appraisal Institute
Company: Baldwin Pearson & Company, Inc.
Location: 10 Middle St., Bridgeport, CT 06604
Birthplace and year: Bridgeport, Conn., 1960
Family: Wife, Annette; children: Daniel and Christine
College: Muhlenberg College, BS in Business Administration
First job outside of appraisal: Commercial-industrial real estate sales, Baldwin Pearson
First job in appraisal or allied field: Fee appraiser, Baldwin Pearson
What do you do now and what are you planning for the future? Offer the best educational courses to appraisers; get associate members designated as MAI or SRA, fight proposed legislation of "broker price opinion letters," which remove input on property from appraisers.
Hobbies: Golf, flying, fishing, tennis
Favorite movie: "It's a Wonderful Life"
Keys to success: Hard work, honesty, tell it like it is; your reputation is everything.
If you had to choose another vocation what would it be? Fly fishing guide on the Big Horn River in Montana