Peoples Company
Lake States

Dan worked with Value Midwest as an independent contractor before joining the team in 2017.

Dan began his appraisal career in 1987 working under his father-in law at Butcher & Associates, and continued his appraisal career with various other appraisal companies. In 1999, he started his own appraisal practice, Edwards & Associates.

Dan obtained his Certified General appraiser license in 1992, and achieved his American Society of Appraisers (ASA) designation in 2011. In 2018, Dan also achieved his National Association of Independent Fee Appraisers (IFAS) designation. He is a past president of the Detroit Chapter #13 of the ASA and is an active director on the board in the area of continuing education. Dan specializes in commercial property appraisals.

Dan and his wife Alyson have been blessed with two children and three grandchildren. The enjoy the outdoors, camping, and riding the Silver Lake sand dunes along Lake Michigan, along with the trails of northern Michigan in there dune buggy.

Mary began working with Value Midwest as an administrative assistant in 2007.  She obtained her limited license in 2012, and became a Certified General Appraiser in 2015.

Her areas of focus are on mass-appraisal techniques, area-wide market analyses, data validation, and statistical analysis applied to large-scale projects throughout the United States.

Kim joined Value Midwest in October of 2016. She provides consistent administrative support in the areas of document proofing, project compilation, research retrieval, as well as office and project communication.

Kim is the Office Manager handles day to day operations of the business. Kim previously worked in the public school system for 19 years in administrative positions.

Mike has been with Value Midwest since 2010. Mike works in the agricultural department alongside of Mark Williams, completing appraisals for vacant land and headquarters tracts. Mike enjoys fixing up and selling vehicles in his free time. 

Dave obtained his limited appraiser license in Michigan in 2004, while he was a junior at Michigan State University. He initially appraised single-family homes in Lansing/East Lansing and in the Detroit-metro area. He obtained his certified residential appraiser license in 2006 and confirmed the SRA designation from the Appraisal Institute in 2008. Between 2004 and 2009 Dave shifted from appraising single-family homes to appraising commercial real estate, and ultimately achieved his certified general appraiser license in 2008. In April 2009 Dave joined the Southfield/Detroit office of CBRE where he went on to appraise a breadth of commercial real estate such as vacant land, residential subdivisions, schools, churches, light industrial buildings, retail buildings, multi-family apartments, medical office buildings, drug stores, and single- and multi-tenant suburban and urban office buildings. Dave has appraised numerous low-to-high-rise multi-tenant office buildings in the metro and Downtown Detroit area. Some specialty/unique properties which Dave has appraised include a privately owned residential island with a seasonal home in Lake St. Clair (MI) and three college/university campuses. Dave confirmed the MAI designation from the Appraisal Institute in 2014. Additionally, Dave has represented his work in court via expert witness testimony on multiple occasions. In January 2021 Dave resigned from CBRE after an 11-year tenure to join Peoples Company as their Director of Appraisal. 

At Peoples Company, Dave’s focus is to grow/enhance the existing appraisal services business line across the entire United States. The appraisal services business line is centric to the appraisal of Agricultural real estate. Property types appraised by the appraisal team includes but is not limited to bare recreational and hunting land, income-producing high quality tillable cropland, fruit/vegetable farms, wineries, agri-business facilities such as dairy, hog, cattle, and poultry, as well as conservation easements, and various assignments for local, state, and federal government agencies (ag-related projects). The appraisal business line is currently licensed in 24 states and holds temporary licenses in additional states.    

Dave is married with three children and lives in Michigan. He enjoys spending time with family and friends through skiing, golfing, hunting and fishing, as well as spending time “Up-North”. Furthermore, Dave has maintained his connection to Michigan State University and the East Lansing/Lansing real estate market via numerous real estate investments.    

Michele began working with Value Midwest as an administrative assistant in 1999.  She obtained her limited license in 2010, and became a State Licensed Appraiser in 2014.

She works alongside of Mr. Williams and Mr. Lentz in a wide range of appraisal capacities from research to analysis and report writing.  Her focus has been on conservation easements, rural land appraisals, rural residential and commercial properties.

Ricky joined Value Midwest in 2015. After receiving his Bachelor of Science in Entrepreneurial Business in 2015, he obtained his limited license and became a Certified General Real Estate Appraiser in 2018.

His areas of focus are animal production facilities and agricultural estate valuation. Ricky has over 35 years of ag-related experience including owning/operating a large dairy production facility in southern Minnesota, and serving on a regional agricultural financial lending Board of Directors.

He has a life-long passion and commitment to serving both production agriculture and agribusiness.

Mark joined the Value Midwest team in 2013 as an intern and started full-time in 2014 after graduating Michigan State University with a Bachelor of Science in Agribusiness Management and a minor in Agronomy.

In 2017, Mark became a Certified General Appraiser.

Mark focuses on unique and specialty agricultural property appraisals, and is currently working towards his Accredited Rural Appraiser (ARA) designation.

Mark is the President and Founder of Value Midwest and established the firm on three principles of "Quality Work, Timely Service & Reasonable Fees".  He has been licensed as a Certified General Appraiser since 1994 and has obtained his designation as an “Accredited Rural Appraiser” from the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers. He has extensive knowledge and experience with all types of agricultural properties including animal production facilities, grain storage systems, permanent  plantings, certified organic cropland and recreational tracts. He also is considered a leading expert in the valuation of market analyses, eminent domain, Yellow Book, conservation easements, and partial interest appraisals. 

Mr. Williams is also a qualified reviewer for Yellow Book and Eminent Domain appraisals and is a two time President of the Michigan Chapter of ASFRMA. Mark also serves on the ASFRMA National Education and Accreditation Committee as Vice Chairman.

Mark and his wife Debi are blessed with six children, 17 grandchildren and 4 great grandchildren. They also operate a 90 acre certified organic hay farm and enjoy traveling in their spare time. In the past three years they have also been active with Samaritans Purse mission teams, assisting with rebuilding homes in flood ravaged areas of North Carolina, West Virginia and Louisiana.