Podcasts

Really! Appraisals and Appraisal Reports are confidential, even though the borrower gets a copy. And Tim Andersen, The Appraiser’s Advocate, shows you how that confidentiality helps to protect you!

Are your appraisal reports internally consistent? Tim gives you some advice on the matter

What a broker or the seller thinks about the price of real estate is, to us appraisers, about as useless as steaks at a vegan’s birthday.

YOU know what you mean when you write your appraisal report. But is what you meant clear to the Client? If it’s not, and the Client nicks you for it, do you take it as a leaning experience, or bitch about it on social media? Tim Andersen, The Appraisers Advocate, USPAP instructor and guru, and

Tim discusses what happens after the state appraisal board gets finished with another appraiser. While it is true anther appraiser has bitten the dust, there is life after the appraisal board’s judgement. Basically that means, get up, dust yourself off, and get on with life and all its joys!

It’s okay to accept data from a broker. The reason is because it is up to the appraiser to analyze the broker’s data to determine whether they are truly comparable sales. Appraisers don’t take the brokers word for it. Per USPAP, they analyze their own data and come to their own conclusions.

Some say the residential real estate appraisal industry is dead. This is not true! There are too many opportunities out there for appraisers who are willing to take advantage of them. We ain’t dead yet!