Randall Bell

Bell grew up in Fullerton, California as the son of an engineer and homemaker, and attended Troy High School.[9] He has an MBA from UCLA.[2][7][8] He received his doctoral degree from Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara, California.[10]

Bell began working on appraisals of environmental and asbestos damage in the 1980s.[5] He has also assessed Chinese dry wall and sink holes.[4] In 1992, Bell assessed the damages of the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles. After the riots, he decided to focus only on damaged properties. Bell created the Bell Chart, a rating system that categorizes the 10 types of detrimental conditions and their corresponding economic damages of properties in 1992.[3][9][5] The system ranks properties from class 1 (no detrimental effects) to class 10 (an incurable condition).[5] In 1994, he began assessing stigmatized properties such as the damages of the Northridge earthquake and wildfires in Malibu, California.[11][8] In 1997, he became the national director of the Real Estate Damages practice of Price Waterhouse.[7] He left the firm in 1999, and co-founded Bell Anderson & Sanders with two partners.[7]

Bell works with properties that have been affected by crime, environmental contamination, construction defects and natural disaster.[11] He has consulted on Nicole Brown Simpson's condominium; the Beverly Hills estate where Charles Manson's followers murdered Sharon Tate and four other people in 1969; the Rancho Santa Fe mansions where the bodies of 39 Heaven's Gate cult members were found, the house in Boulder, Colorado, where JonBenét Ramsey was killed; the home of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooter Adam Lanza; and the house of Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock.[1][9][7][8][5][12][13][14] He has also consulted on Hurricane Katrina; the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands; the September 11 attacks at the World Trade Center; and the United Airlines Flight 93 crash site in Shanksville.[7][8] Bell has traveled to Chernobyl, Hiroshima; to the World Trade Center site; and to Egypt, Jordan, Israel and West Bank to find comparisons in properties damaged by terrorist attacks.[4][5] He has also traveled to Antarctica to interview scientists about climate change and how it affects costs, such as insurance for home owners.[15] The Appraisal Institute published Bell's book Real Estate Damages: Applied Economics and Detrimental Conditions in 2008.[4] In 2011, Bell returned from Guam, where he consulted with landowners whose property included the cave where Shoichi Yokoi, a Japanese army sergeant, hid for 28 years, unaware that World War II had ended. The landowners opened a theme park on the property.[4]

• Real Estate Damages: An Analysis of Detrimental Conditions (1999) (ISBN 0922154554)
• Property Owners Manual (2004) (ISBN 0974452114)
• Owners Manual (2004)
• Business Owners Manual (2004) (ISBN 0974452130)
• Home Owners Manual (2004) (ISBN 0974452122)
• Disasters: Wasted Lives, Valuable Lessons (2005) (ISBN 9781930819436)
• Strategy 360: 10 Steps for Creating a Complete Game Plan for Business & Life (2008) (ISBN 1933969164)
• Rich Habits Rich Life (2016) (ISBN 9781933969237)
• Me We Do Be: The Four Cornerstones of Success (2017) (ISBN 0996793119)
• Leo Fender: The Quiet Giant Heart Around the World (2017) (ISBN 0996793143)

Randall Bell lives in Laguna Beach, California with his wife and has four children from a previous marriage.[9][6] Bell volunteers at the Laguna Beach homeless and rehabilitation center, Friendship Shelter.[16]

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