Houston

John serves as Senior Managing Director at BBG.  He previously served as President of the full service real estate appraisal and consulting firm of Aaron & Wright Incorporated. John has been involved in real estate appraising and consulting since 1983.  His experience includes the preparation of narrative appraisal reports on virtually all types of commercial real estate, reviewing commercial appraisal reports, and consulting.

Jack Bass is currently Senior Managing Director of Healthcare at BBG. BBG is a multi-faceted real estate valuation, advisory and assessment firm specializing in all types of real estate properties. He has been involved in the appraisal and consultation of real estate and business properties for over 35 years. Prior to becoming associated with BBG, Jack was Director of Seniors Housing & Healthcare for IRR, prior to IRR, he was Vice President and Regional Manager for the Commercial Appraisal Group with Bank of America in Houston. From 1978 to 1992, he was an independent fee appraiser with offices in Houston and Boston.

Jack has extensive, national experience with all types of healthcare properties including acute care hospitals, specialty hospitals, LTACH’s, nursing homes, independent living facilities, assisted living facilities, Alzheimer’s facilities, cancer centers, ambulatory surgery centers, urgent care facilities, dialysis facilities and medical office buildings. He has performed Stark compliance appraisals and litigation support of hospital ground leases and medical properties on a national basis. Jack is HUD certified for the Senior Housing LEAN and MAP programs and is on the SBA Going Concern Registry. He has national experience with the appraisal of vacant land, retail, office, industrial, apartments, hospitality properties and historical buildings, and Uniform Appraisal Standards for Federal Land Acquisitions (Yellow Book).

Mr. Richard Vallejo has 20 years of experience in the real estate due diligence industry, where he was instrumental in the development and elevation of what is known today as BBG Assessments, LLC.  He maintains a Senior Managing Director position where he manages the Project Coordinators and Centralized Staffing groups, as well as lending support to Client Managers, Sales, and Operations.

Mr. Vallejo began his career in 2002 as an Accounting Manager for a real estate due diligence assessment company and appraisal firm, managing millions of dollars in receivables.  After the assessment company was acquired in 2004, he continued to provide accounts receivable supervision over multiple offices nationwide while evolving his services to the appraisal firm to include contract management, licensing, project bidding, and project coordination.

Mr. Vallejo saw the appraisal firm acquired in late 2007, where he again evolved his services to include direct client management, negotiating projects services, fees and timing with national clients for appraisal services, with special attention to special use type properties to include churches, schools, cemeteries, private schools and universities. 

Mr. Vallejo continued to provide multi-level management services during a managerial takeover of the appraisal services in 2008, where his services now included the managing of the Houston appraisal office.

Mr. Vallejo was invited to initiate a test program for the environmental and property condition assessment services in late 2009, where he played a key role in maintaining report templates, setting up relationships with Professional Associates, setting pricing from environmental resource providers, lab services and testing products, as well as project coordination.  He continued to negotiate on behalf of appraisal service as well as the assessment due diligence to provide project fee & timing for all types of clients, including agency lenders, construction lenders, institutional investors, owners & corporations, and insurance companies.

Mr. Vallejo’s experience in the environmental health and real estate due diligence consulting industry includes providing services to a wide range of clients for Environmental Phase I, Phase II, Property Condition, Seismic Studies, Small Balance Loans, Plan & Cost Reviews, and Third-Party Desktop Reviews.