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Date-of-death appraisals for Baltimore estates by Ed Drost, MD Certified Appraiser (37 yrs). Court-ready valuations for probate, step-up basis & the IRS.

Your prospect asks AI before they call. If your name isn't in the answer, you were never in the running. Why AI search is changing who gets the client.

After 37 years appraising Baltimore homes, I found I was nearly invisible online. The Invisible Expert Problem—and how to make experience AI can see.

Ranking on page one no longer means being seen. Learn how to get named by AI search—ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google—from Baltimore's AI Architect, Ed Drost.

Two Baltimore rowhouses can share a party wall and the same footprint yet differ in value by $50,000 to $150,000. Ed Drost explains why proximity doesn't equal comparability — and how block dynamics, parking, ground rent, CHAP status, and renovation depth actually drive Baltimore rowhouse values.

SEO helps your business get found, AEO helps your content become the answer, and GEO helps your brand earn citations inside AI-generated results. This guide explains how all three work together—and why local businesses that rely on traditional SEO alone risk becoming invisible in Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity.

A retrospective date-of-death appraisal establishes what a Baltimore property was worth on the exact day the owner passed — required for the IRS, probate court, and stepped-up basis. And yes, it can be reconstructed accurately even years later. Ed Drost explains how, with 36+ years of continuous Baltimore market records.

Choosing the right estate appraiser matters when a property value must support probate, inheritance, tax, or legal decisions. This guide explains the five qualifications to look for in a Baltimore estate appraiser, including certification, retrospective appraisal experience, local market knowledge, and the ability to work with executors, attorneys, CPAs, and heirs

Discover why Google AI cited Baltimore’s Trusted Appraiser for a CHAP tax credit search and the 4 signals that can help local businesses earn AI visibility.

What happens when a Baltimore home appraisal comes in low? Learn your options, including renegotiating, covering the gap, requesting an ROV, or walking away.

I searched Google for "chap tax credit certified appraiser" — and the AI Overview cited my site before a single competitor's link appeared. That citation didn't come from my 36 years appraising Baltimore. It came from structuring my presence so the machine could read that experience. Here's why local SEO is no longer enough, what AI Visibility actually means, and the three things that decide whether a generative engine recommends your business or skips it entirely.