Bell began working on appraisals of environmental and asbestos damage in the 1980s.[11] He has also assessed Chinese drywall and sink holes.[6][10] 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. Also in 1992,Bell created the Bell Chart,a rating system that categorizes the 10 types of detrimental conditions and their corresponding economic damages of properties.[8][14][11] The system ranks properties from class 1 (no detrimental effects) to class 10 (an incurable condition).[11] In 1994,he began assessing stigmatized properties such as the damages of the Northridge earthquake and wildfires in Malibu,California.[15][13] In 1997,he became the national director of the Real Estate Damages practice of Price Waterhouse.[10] He left the firm in 1999,and co-founded Bell Anderson &Sanders with two partners.[10] He is presently CEO of Landmark Research Group.[16]
In recent years,Bell has begun writing self-help books,inspired by his interactions with disaster victims and his personal experiences with overcoming trauma and obstacles.[9]
Bell hosted the 2020 docuseries,Distressed Real Estate,produced by Topic Studios.[22]
Bibliography
Real Estate Damages:An Analysis of Detrimental Conditions (1999) ( ISBN0922154554)
Randall Bell lives in Laguna Beach, California with his wife and has four children.[14][12] Bell volunteers at the Laguna Beach homeless and rehabilitation center, Friendship Shelter.[9]
1 2 Bell, Randall (2013). Posttraumatic Behaviors: The Socioeconomic Reasoning of Homeowners Who Voluntarily Remained in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina (PhD). Santa Barbara, CA: Fielding Graduate University, UMI Dissertation Publishing.
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