Madoff Investment Securities has more than $700 million in capital, according to its website.Madoff remains a member of Nasdaq OMX Group Inc's nominating committee, and his firm is a market maker for about 350 Nasdaq stocks, including Apple, EBay and Dell, according to the website.The website also states that Madoff himself has "a personal interest in maintaining the unblemished record of value, fair-dealing, and high ethical standards that has always been the firm's hallmark."

Photos and evidence to support the value must be provided.

Would I hammer them to send me photo copied checks, addresses of properties, and bank statements....NOPE!

We've just been through one of those with the bubble, now we're going through the reversal.One set of assumptions would be to assume nominal prices (actual prices, not inflation adjusted) will be flat until the inflation curve catches up to the price curve.

It is said that during the last century Carlo Alberto, king of Piedmont and Sardinia, disembarked on the island in search of the mythical goats of the golden teeth (phenomenon caused by a grass that causes these reflections), and had remained so spellbound by it as to nominate its only inhabitant, Paul Bertolini, "king of Tavolara".

interesting...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/us.html#Econ

He finally uploaded photos the day before guests arrived and the place looked decent but there were a lot of things that were shoddily done. 

I know I have the before photos - I don't know if I took after photos or not but the handyman did a good job. 

If you scroll below you can see photos of the finished product.Here are the details:I bought a property that had on it 2 detached single family homes on 1 tax lot, the city and the bank recognized it as a duplex even though it technically isn't a duplex.

After seeing the photos, that would have been my preferred course of action.