A great real estate appraiser? What are the five signs? Listen to this podcast! Tim Andersen, The Appraiser’s Advocate, explains each of them. The first sign is you understand highest and best use, a big one. Then you understand reconciliation. Who names the intended use and users comes into play here, too (spoiler alert: you, […]
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INTRODUCTION Consider the lowly box-and-whisker (B&W) graph. From any spreadsheet program, it is easy to make (it is part of the graphing function). You’ll find it easy to read, too. Clients generally understand it since it so clearly announces its own purpose. From it, the appraiser gets an instant picture of the high and low
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INTRODUCTION It is clear most appraisers do not like to do the Cost approach. This may be because most appraisers simply do not appreciate its power. Consider these 10 Cost approach questions. 10 QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER Take a look at these 10 questions on the Cost approach (and stuff related to it). After you’re finished,
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INTRODUCTION What do you know about the concept of affordability? How do you account for it in your day-to-day appraising? Should you account for it? Does the concept of affordability even impact the typical first mortgage real estate appraisal? AH, MEMORIES! Remember the last time markets were this active, prices this hot, and housing supply
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Is she a qualified state investigator? She can’t be! She’s not even an appraiser! She does not understand USPAP! How can a non-appraiser do that? This is a common complaint. State investigators are not appraisers. So, how can they investigate us? This is a misconception many appraisers have. It is illogical to think this way.
Neighborhood analytics? Really!? That’s easy! Just fill in the boxes on the 1004 form. What’s the bid deal?! Fannie Mae asks us to answer 36 questions about any subject’s neighborhood. Frankly, its not important that we reached a credible value conclusion. What is important is to explain why that conclusion is credible. That’s why due
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Due Diligence? Is this something real estate appraisers really need to know about? Just get the report back to the client quickly, right? It’s likely the client does not even read the report, right? Besides, at $450 a pop, you can’t spend a lot of time on the appraisal or report! It is true there
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Green Eggs and Ham?! What can those possibly have to do with real estate appraisal in the first-quarter of the 21st century? From a purely literal standpoint, nothing. But let’s look past the literal. Is there a metaphorical meaning? Is this Dr. Seuss book a moral parable? What can we adults learn from this book?
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When it comes to neighborhood analysis, what does Fannie Mae want? That’s all clear in B4-1.3-03 of the Selling Guide. Really! It’s all there. No reason to guess! No reason to worry over it! What Fannie Mae wants is all there! Of course, that means we appraisers have to read it. We must be familiar
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Stats and Graphs! George Dell, MAI, CRE, ASA explains these to us. In other words, he clarifies them for us. Why use them? Do they explain what we do better than we can explain it? Do they paint a picture of the data in the client’s mind? Do they provide the client with essential information?
