8B — January 2026 — Southern New Jersey — M id A tlantic Real Estate Journal
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Southern NJ Chapter Celebrates the Season with Giving and Gratitude
2026 OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS
The Southern NJ Chapter held its annual Holiday Dinner and Installation of Officers/Directors on December 2nd. In the holiday spirit of giving, we collected money and gifts cards to distribute to clients at the Pitman Pantry – a local food bank that serves around 100 clients weekly. The gift cards were $10-15 for stores such as WalMart, Target, Dunkin. Because of our members’ generosity, we collected $1,845 in donations as well as 49 gift cards. Shown, Appraisal Institute President Mike Mignongna, MAI, SRA, AI-GRS , with 2025 Chapter President Maria Nucci, SRA, AI-RRS.
President: Meghan Linaris, MAI
Vice President: Deborah Tordella, MAI, SRA
Intelligence and the Appraiser Recently, forty-eight people logged into our chapter zoom event, developed and presented by Justin Gohn, MAI, SRA , and Chandra Mast . This 2 hour event helped attendees to step into the future of real estate with this seminar’s tactical playbook on integrating AI tools into every facet of the appraisal process. This sharp, high-impact session unveiled how a “personal army of bots” can juggle your inbox, scrape federal bids, analyze market sentiment, and whip up full-fledged regression models while you sip your coffee. Justin Gohn, MAI, SRA,
Treasurer: Joshua Garretson, MAI, AI-GRS, AI-RRS
Secretary: Steve Bartelt, MAI, SRA, AI-GRS
founded Gohn & Company in 2006, a full-service appraisal firm providing appraisal and consulting services for litigation support and bank lending purposes throughout the greater Philadelphia market.
Based in Chadd Ford in the Philadelphia suburbs, Gohn serves as the 2025 president of the Philadelphia Metropolitan Chapter of the Appraisal Institute. A graduate of Temple University, he frequently presents both in-person and virtually across the country on the topic of artificial intelligence and its applications in real estate valuation. Chandra Mast, CGA BCA, is a Certified General Appraiser in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia, and a Business Certified Appraiser. She specializes in using econometrics and trend analysis to assess various property types and going concerns, catering to a wide variety of client needs. Chandra is the current Secretary of the Pennsylvania State Board of Certified Real Estate Appraisers. Her background is in real estate, data analysis, and equine studies. She also works as an instructor for the Lancaster County Association of Realtors where she actively shares her expertise with fellow property professionals on the Commercial & Industrial Board. Also recently, the chapter held the seminar “Fair Value, Market Value, Fair Market Value” on Zoom for 31 people. Chapter favorite Vince Dowling, MAI, SRA , instructed the well-received seminar. The seminar relied heavily on examples and case studies to help participants understand the diverse ways terms are used and think through how to address the differences when confronting them in an assignment. It also intended to help understand different interpreta- tions of key valuation concepts, so that appraisers can effectively report how they have been applied in a particular assignment.
Past President: Maria Nucci, SRA, AI-RRS
Directors: Lana Chiapetta, MAI, AI-GRS Errett Vielehr, MAI Lee Ann Kampf, MAI Danielle Fischer Jerry McHale, MAI Michael Descano, MAI
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