About NextPhase
Twenty-one years, four asset classes, and 7,000 assignments behind every opinion.
Valuation Consultant · Expert Witness
AQB Certified USPAP Instructor
Why NextPhase exists
Most valuation work in this market now runs through intermediaries — companies that own the customer relationship, take the fee, and route the actual appraisal to whoever is cheapest and available.
That model is efficient for the intermediary. It is not good for the client, who ends up holding a report from someone they never spoke to, who never saw the property, and who will not be available when a court, a carrier, or the IRS asks a hard question about it.
NextPhase is built the other way round. A credentialed appraiser performs the work and signs the report. If the conclusion is challenged, the person who signed it defends it.
There is a particular reason that promise carries weight here. Jeremy C. Johnson spent years as a vice president inside an appraisal management company, overseeing 5,000+ appraisers across 31 states and roughly 150 reports a day. He has seen exactly how the volume model works from the inside — which is precisely why NextPhase is not built that way.
Credentials
- Testimony experience — Maricopa County courts and California courts
- AQB Certified USPAP Instructor
- Arizona Certified Appraiser Instructor
- Certified Residential Real Estate Appraiser
- Certified Supervisor Trainer
- FHA / HUD Approved Appraiser since 2006
- VA Panel Appraiser
- Former Vice President, Appraisal Management Company (31 states)
- Published author & national instructor
- Arizona Certified Residential Appraiser #21358
- VA appraiser panel ID #5003132 — a panel assignment, not a state license
- 7-Hour National USPAP Update Course — instructor-certified through the AQB
Background
- Oversaw 5,000+ appraisers and 150 reports per day as an AMC vice president across 31 states
- B. Riley Advisory Services — machinery & equipment valuation
- CBIZ Valuation Group — insurance & replacement cost valuation
- Author, Navigating the New HUD 4000.1 & Adjustments: Supported or Not
- Instructor to more than 1,000 valuation professionals
Practice areas
Residential real estate including manufactured and mobile homes, Arizona-certified. Personal property from single items to full household contents, handled worldwide. Machinery and equipment across farm, medical, construction, and shop assets. Business valuation for closely held companies and professional practices. Commercial real estate signed by an associated Certified General. Energy improvement valuation within residential work. Expert witness, litigation support and insurance support attach to any of them.
Independence
NextPhase does not buy, sell, broker, consign, or take a position in anything it appraises. There is no referral arrangement with any dealer, auction house, or brokerage. That independence is not a marketing line — it is the thing that makes a report survive scrutiny.
Work already delivered.
A sample of the assignment types behind 7,000+ valuations — not a wish list.
Municipal & Government
Replacement cost valuations for police departments, fire stations, government facilities, and public assets.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Valuations of manufacturing plants, production equipment, and specialized industrial machinery.
Heavy Equipment & Fleet
Construction equipment, fleet vehicles, material handling systems, and transportation assets.
Personal Property & Specialty
Firearms, collectibles, medical equipment, fine art, jewelry, and unique assets.
Estate & Divorce
Complex real estate, business interests, and personal property valued for equitable distribution.
Insurance & Loss
Replacement cost, diminished value, property loss, and building systems valuation.
Have a question before you order?
Call and ask. No obligation, and nobody is going to put you in a funnel.
What the work actually looks like
Real assignments, client details removed — what each engagement actually turned on, rather than how it felt.
A house, a workshop of machine tools, a forty-year firearms collection and a stake in the family company — four disciplines that three appraisers had only partly covered. One engagement, one effective date, one set of assumptions.
A donation the regulations would have aggregated past the appraisal threshold, which the donor had assessed item by item. One qualified appraisal covering the group, itemized, signed inside the window the regulations allow.
An opposing report whose number was not obviously wrong — which is what made it dangerous. It failed on its own certification, and was answered section by section with an independent valuation to the correct definition of value.