A Thick Workfile – TAA Podcast 083
Thanks for listening to this podcast on appraisal workfiles. Now, finally, you’ll know what needs to be in your appraisal workfile!
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Did You Mislead Your Client Today? – TAA Podcast 082
Did you mislead your client today? How? Why? You say, “Of course not! That would be unethical!” And you’d be right. To mislead your client, intentionally or unintentionally, would be highly unethical and a major USPAP violation. But, again, did you mislead your client today? You may have done just that. You’re wondering how, right?
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Is Your Appraisal House Haunted? – TAA Podcast 081
Is your appraisal house haunted? How about your appraisal business? Are you a ghost? You know what a ghost is. It is the nebulous apparition of a dead person. Usually you can’t see them, but sometimes you think you maybe caught just a glimpse of one. But, probably not. After all, we are talking about
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Random Appraisal Thoughts and USPAP, Too! – TAA Podcast 080
Random appraisal thoughts? So much is going on in AppraisalWorld right now, its time for some thinking. ANSI measurements standards are not the way we measure houses, etc. Desktop appraisals are here to stay, at least for Fannie Mae. The PAVE Task Force met and all bias and discrimination in mortgage lending is the appraiser’s
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ASK WHY! IT’S OK! – TAA Podcast 079
Ask Why! It’s OK! Appraisers have an ethical obligation to understand what they are doing. We call it COMPETENCY. USPAP even has a Competency Rule. Why? Because the client has the right to assume our appraisals are credible, accurate, reliable, and reproducible. Our reports must not mislead anybody. And how do we do all this?
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10 Questions Fannie Mae Just Has Not Answered – TAA Podcast 078
10 questions Fannie Mae just has not answered? There are probably more than 10, but this podcast covers only 10 of them. Maybe we appraisers have not asked the proper questions? Maybe Fannie Mae does not trust enough to give us the answers. But the point is, we appraisers have questions. Fannie Mae has answers.
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USPAP Says Support Everything! – TAA Podcast 077
USPAP says support everything! That’s really great advice, but is it practical? Appraisers have only so much time and money to do an appraisal. That report must get out the door quickly and timely! So, is there really time to explain and support everything? Let’s put it this way: there probably is not. But try
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Real Estate Appraisal’s Future? – TAA Podcast 076
Real estate appraisal’s future? Dare we look into it? Is it not best to leave some elements of life undiscovered? Tim Andersen, The Appraiser’s Advocate peers into that abyss. But since the future in unknowable, Tim’s guesses are as good as anybody’s. Isn’t it amazing? Real Estate’s appraisal protocols have not changed fundamentally since the
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MORE Unacceptable Appraisal Practices?! – TAA Podcast 075
There are more unacceptable appraisal practices?! Really, just how many can there be? Fannie Mae has 16. Freddie Mac has 10. But no matter. There really is a benefit here! What, possibly could that benefit be? That benefit is once you know them, you can avoid them. And when you avoid them, your appraisals are
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Reconsiderations of Value: Satan’s Own Seed, Right? – TAA Podcast 074
“Some clown wants a reconsideration of value (ROV)?! ROVs are Satan’s own seed, right? Probably, that obnoxious broker told the borrower to file the ROV! This would not be even an issue if that idiot, greedy broker had priced the property correctly! So, now what?! I’ve got to stop everything else I’m doing to babysit
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