Appraisal Instructors

Mel Black

BA, EdS, JD

Mel is the former executive director of the North Carolina Appraisal Board and former Education Officer at the North Carolina Real Estate Commission. Now an attorney in private practice, Mel represents clients from around the state before their licensing boards.  He also has written and regularly teaches appraisal continuing education classes through-out the state. He is an AQB Certified USPAP Instructor. Mel also teaches Real Estate continuing education by request.

J. Larry Hogan, Ph. D

Dr. Larry Hogan is an AQB Certified USPAP Instructor and a Certified General Real Estate Appraiser in North Carolina.  He has been teaching Appraisal courses since 1991 and from 1993 - 2003  was Department Chair of Real Estate and Real Estate Appraisal at Fayetteville Technical Community College.  Dr. Hogan has appraised residential and commercial real estate in North Carolina and Florida.  He has a doctorate degree in clinical psychology and is currently the Division Chair of Social Sciences and Humanities at Fayetteville Tech.  

Dr. J. Craig Julian, SRA

Dr. J. Craig Julian, SRA has been a real property appraiser for 25 years. He has appraised in multiple states and is currently General state certified in the following states: Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas. He earned the distinguished SRA (Senior Real Estate Appraiser) designation in 1988 at the young age of 22. He has multiple degrees including a degree in real estate and a doctorate in education. He has testified as an expert witness in several state and district courts. He is an approved appraisal instructor for the Texas Real estate Commission, North Carolina Appraisal Board and the Appraisal Institute. He has written and reviewed several real estate appraisal textbooks for colleges and proprietary schools. He has worked as a field appraiser, review appraiser, appraisal director of the largest real estate school in Texas and is currently the district review appraiser manager for the 4th largest bank in the United States.

Joyce Pusey, SRA

Joyce Pusey holds the SRA designation from the Appraisal Institute, and has been a real estate appraiser since 1984. She has also been a licensed real estate broker in North Carolina, since 1980.

Since 1990, she has also taught appraisal pre-licensing courses and continuing education. She is the author of several appraisal continuing education courses, and holds the prestigious AQB Certified USPAP Instructor
designation.

Joyce has owned her own real estate appraisal firm (Pusey & Associates, Inc) since 1992