Vernon Martin, the founding principal of American Property Research, performs research, due diligence and valuations regarding commercial real estate throughout the world. He has 34 years of commercial appraisal experience and has worked in 21 countries, 42 U.S. states, and four Canadian provinces. He was previously the chief commercial appraiser at 3 national lending institutions, formerly taught Real Estate Valuation at California State University, Los Angeles and has authored many professional journal articles and two books. He has degrees from the University of Chicago and Southern Methodist University and is a Certified Fraud Examiner. He also wrote the book on commercial real estate fraud, published by the Appraisal Institute as Fraud Prevention for Commercial Real Estate Valuation.