About Otto & Company
We established the company in 1993 as an answer to the growing demand for better quality, reasonably priced appraisal and consulting services. We assembled a team of appropriately educated individuals, and supplemented their knowledge & skills with substantial in-house training. In addition, our staff individually continues to maintain a regiment of courses and seminars to keep them up-to-date with current valuation concepts. This continuing educational growth adds to our body of knowledge and provides the means to deliver verifiably accurate reports of a consistent high quality. Please click here for a brief web presentation of our company, or here for our corporate brochure.
Individually, our staff includes the following:
L. L. (Les) Otto
Active in the appraisal industry since 1978, in both British Columbia and Ontario. Designated member of the Appraisal Institute of Canada [AACI] and the Real Estate Institute of BC [RI]. In addition, Les is also an associate member of the American Appraisal Institute, the Ontario Expropriation Association, and the Canadian Condominium Institute. He is an MBA graduate from the Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland, UK. Les has extensive experience in a wide range of disciplines including: expropriation, resource properties, land claims, and all of the standard commercial, multi-family & industrial properties.
Paul Athanasiou
Active in the appraisal industry since 1994, completing a variety of assignments throughout in Southwestern Ontario. Designated member of the Appraisal Institute of Canada [AACI], and a University of Western Ontario graduate with a B.A. in Economics. Paul specializes in apartment & industrial properties, land-use feasibility studies, and expropriation.
Jason C. Otto
Active in the appraisal industry since 1999, Jason is a designated member of the Appraisal Institute of Canada [AACI]. Jason is a graduate of North Central University (Minnesota, USA), with a B.Sc., and a member of the Ontario Expropriation Association. He has a broad range of experience including standard commercial, multi-family & industrial property types, as well more specialized risk management reviews for mortgage portfolios, and replacement costing for insurance & condominium reserve fund studies, and expropriation.
Jay R. Patterson
Jay has an extensive financial background as a mortgage lender. This experience in real estate risk analysis has given him a clear understanding of the appraisal industry. Jay is also a candidate member of the Appraisal Institute of Canada, working towards his professional appraisal designation [AACI]. His typical assignments include standard commercial, multi-family & industrial property types. In addition, having lived and grown-up in rural Ontario, Jay has excelled in the valuation of agricultural holdings. These include poultry, hog, cattle and cash-crop properties. He also has extensive expropriation experience.
Daniel Hoftyzer
Daniel is a candidate member of the Appraisal Institute of Canada, and is working towards his professional appraisal designation [AACI]. He has a Bachelor of Commerce in Agricultural Business from the University of Guelph, and has been a Certified Management Accountant since 2009. Daniel’s professional focus has been on agri-business, both through the accounting & management side as well as the financing aspects. He is also available for more standard commercial and industrial properties.
Rob Videcak
Rob is a candidate member of the Appraisal Institute of Canada, and is working towards his professional appraisal designation [AACI]. He has a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Wilfrid Laurier University, and has been a Chartered Accountant through the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants since 2001. Rob has strong analytical skills, and is able to incorporate his financial background in the analysis of complex income properties.
Robin Whimster
Robin is our condominium consultant. He has extensive condominium experience on both the day to day management of a complex, as well as assisting in the planning and analysis for our reserve fund studies. Robin comes to us as a highly knowledgeable and educated individual with a BA Eng, and an MBA. His efforts are focused on reserve funds for both existing and conversion condominiums, as well as institutional and municipally owned properties.