About Us


Actively appraising since 1972, R. Marvin Dailey, MAI, SRA is the principal of the Dailey Appraisal Group, and has been involved in the real estate business as a salesman, broker, and investor since the mid 1960s. He became affiliated with the Society of Real Estate Appraisers in the mid 1970s, earning the SRA designation in 1977. That designation stands as the foremost residential designation in the world. In 1987 he earned the Society's non-residential designation, the SRPA (Senior Real Property Appraiser. He became affiliated with the American Institute of Real Estate Appraisers in 1983, earning the MAI designation in 1987.

Mr. Dailey has a profound interest in professionalism and has taught many of the appraisal courses and seminars including some of the earliest seminars on the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice.

Flying is his first love and the expansion from real-estate-only appraising into aircraft appraisal is a natural one.

He has been a pilot for nearly forty years and has accumulated upwards of 5,000 flight hours in various types of aircraft from his initial airplane, an Aeronca 7AC (Champ) through his current airplane, a Piper PA-30 (Twin Comanche). He holds instructor ratings for instrument and airplane and in May 2002 at the age of 58, earned the ATP (Airline Transport Pilot) Certificate