LSI expands offering to include appraisals

Fort Myers-based commercial real estate brokerage firm LSI Cos., as part of a push to offer services similar to those of larger, full-service firms, has added appraisal work to its arsenal.

The former Land Solutions Inc., which was founded two decades ago by Randy Thibaut and today has two dozen agents and staffers, hired researcher and appraiser Nelson Taylor, who over the past decade has valued in excess of $1 billion in property, to take the company in its new direction.