About Us

Bryan Wilder

After Springfield High School, Bryan begin a search for his passion at a building supply company in Hammond, working with local home builders and tradesmen. This interaction with large homebuilders in the Tangipahoa and Livingston Parish areas, helped set the groundwork for a career in real estate appraisal. Later moving on into an electrician, instrumentation position at Dow Chemical and then joining the United States Navy, working with fixed wing aircraft.

After military service, Bryan began studying home inspection from Ponchatoula. Bryan later joined his father's growing real estate appraisal firm. After many years of training and mentoring, Bryan became a Louisiana Certified Appraiser in 2003. Bryan went on to gain valuable experience performing appraisals in Tangipahoa, Livingston, East Baton Rouge, Ascension, Washington, St. Helena, and St. Tammany Parishes.

In 2010, Bryan's father transitioned into retirement, leaving the Ponchatoula based real estate firm to Bryan and his brother. Their father instilled good work ethics, customer service, and most of all taught them the importance of ethical appraisal practices in real estate valuation.

Harry Wilder

One must assume that real estate appraising is in the Wilder family's blood----for four generations, the Wilders have been determining real estate values for many institutions, including lending institutions, FHA and VA.

In the 1930's and 40's, S.E. Wilder was an in-house Real Estate Appraiser for a large bank in Monroe, Louisiana.

In the 1950's and 60's, Gene Wlder was a Real Estate Appraiser, Real Estate Agent and developer in Lafayette Louisiana.

In the 1980's, Harry Wilder became the first Louisiana state certiied residential real estate appraiser; where he appraised properties in Livingston, East Baton Rouge, Tangipahoa, Ascension, Washington and St. Tammany Parishes. He has retired, and his two sons have carried on the family tradition; Bryan Wilder taking over Wilder Appraisers and Kevin Wilder starting Wilder Group Appraisers in Lafayette.