After a three-year semi-retirement in Jacksonville, FL Glen returned to Frederick, MD as a Maryland Licensed Certified Residential Appraiser. In 2018, he founded ValcoMD.com as a client centric multiple solution (traditional appraisals, as well as bifurcated, desktop, hybrid, reconciliation, etc.) Appraisal company. We offer a boutique mindset that is committed to providing excellence in service to corporate clients, financial institutions and select individuals. ValcoMD has implemented a Collaborative team based system that allows us to prepare and deliver a higher-than-average volume of work, at a better quality than the many local as well as national Appraisers. Our process mirrors a similar system that I implemented in metro NY over twenty years ago (click here for 2004 article). He is committed to excellence through education and has completed over 700 hours of Qualifying and Continuing Education. Glen was an early signatory (2019) to Appraiser Diversity Initiative to address diversity and inclusion in the Appraisal profession. He is a member of the Frederick County Board of Realtors, Maryland Assn of Realtors, Nat'l Assn of Realtors, Bright MLS, National Association of Appraisers (MNAA), Maryland Association of Appraisers (MAA), as well as FHA and USDA approved. Glen has been featured on the Appraisal Buzz podcast and Valuation Review Magazine for his thoughts on appraisals and the marketplace. From a start up, ValcoMD has grown to a top 2% appraisal company for appraisals completed. Over trailing 24 months, Glen has over 1,500 appraisals and 4,500 hours of appraisal experience.

In 2014, due to a family illness, Glen sold his interests in Mortgage Specialist International, LLC (MSI).  During his tenure as a principal and President of MSI from 2012 through 2014 he guided the company to over 100% revenue growth ($50 million+ annual), reduced expenses over 15%, expanded employee base to 200+ in three offices.  Since 1983 MSI has provided inspection, property preservation, repair management and hazard claim services.  In 2012, MSI merged certain operations with Default Resource expanding MSI's products and services to include valuations (appraisal, AVM, BPO, hybrids and reconciliation and review), Rental Portfolio Management, and process improvement consulting. Glen has directly performed or managed over 1,500,000 inspections and valuations.

 In 2005, Glen sold his Real Estate practice and co-founded Default Resource (DR), offering automated QC focused evaluations and inspections, business process improvement, emerging markets and outreach assistance, fraud detection, as well as other products and consulting services on a national basis.  From a startup in 2006, Default Resource grew to over $85 million in revenues over its first six years.  In 2008, Glen was appointed to the Frederick County Affordable Housing and Business Advisory Councils.  In 2010, DR won the Entrepreneur Council of Frederick County’s Company of the Year award. In 2011 DR was awarded Frederick County's Best Place to Work for Medium Sized Businesses and Glen was featured as one of the 25 CEOs You Need to Know in Maryland.  He was a Vistage member from 2009-2013 and in 2012 graduated from the Mortgage Bankers Future Leaders Program.

 He was previously Manager of the Corporate Services Group (CSG) at Prudential Action Real Estate servicing Metro New York.  Glen closed over 3,500+ transactions and $600+ million in sales volume in his tenure (1992-2005); a department he established in 1992 with 22 transactions and $3 million in sales volume.  Glen was the #1 Prudential Real Estate Agent for closed transactions in NY State from 1994 to 2004.  He was identified in the 2001, 2002, and 2003 issues of REALTOR Magazine as one of the Top 100 Real Estate Agents in the United States.  He was a speaker or writer for organizations including REOMAC, NRBA, NAHREP, HUD, DS News, ERC, Prudential Real Estate, NY State Assn of REALTORS, Fannie Mae, Keller Williams, Default School, RE Development Institute and others.  Glen designed and maintained the glensold.com and reony.com websites that received over 445,000 visitors and 3.6 Million hits in 2004.  He was a contributor to and featured in the book, "The Millionaire Real Estate Agent" by Gary Keller and Dave Jenks.

 From 2000 to 2004, Glen was awarded "The Pinnacle" for Residential Closed Transactions: to receive this award Glen had to be one of the Top 10 agents for closed transactions out of over 50,000 Prudential Real Estate Agents nationally. He was the #1 agent in US for closed transactions in his final year, 2004.  He was also acknowledged as "Top of The Rock" for being the #1 agent in Northern Region out of over 12,000 associates in 1998 and 2000-2004, "Chairman's Circle - Diamond" award where an associate must have $750,000 of commission income or 150 closed transactions for 12 consecutive years.  He was part of the "PREA 100" as one of the Top 100 Associates for Residential Closings 1997 to 2004.

 In 2001 and 2004, Glen was given Special Community Service Awards by the United States Congress primarily for his work with first time homebuyers in Eastern Brooklyn and Western Queens promoting homeownership in these underserved areas.  New York City Government awarded him for Outstanding Leadership in Promoting Homeownership in 2004.  Glen worked with New Yorkers for Responsible Lending in identifying and documenting predatory lending practices that lead to New York passing one of the first anti-predatory lending laws in the United States.  He is a charter member of the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals (NAHREP).  Glen was a licensed real estate instructor in NY State focusing on fair housing, real estate finance and technology.  In 2004, he was appointed to the Homeownership Committee for Neighborhood Housing Services (NHS) of NY City. 

 Glen is a graduate of Boston University’s School of Management with dual degrees in Accounting and Finance as well as University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business with a Certificate in Management.  Glen resides in Frederick, MD. 

Contact Glen

Office: 301-882-3145
Email: glen@valcomd.com