USPAP and the investigator’s questions is a topic we’ve covered before. But investigators still keep asking questions. So it makes sense to be aware of them, as well as how to answer them. That raises the question, “How do I answer the investigator’s questions?”. There is a two-part answer: part one is “from the data […]
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USPAP and the last time? What does that mean? When you listen to the podcast you’ll find out. USPAP and the last time asks a series of questions. These ask you about the last time you considered an appraisal concept or idea. This is important simply because appraisals have too many moving parts. It is
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USPAP and adjustments. Are they facts or just your opinion? USPAP does not use the word adjust or adjustments in Standard One, the appraisal development standard, nor Standard Two, the appraisal reporting standard. Further, USPAP does not require appraisers to make them to anything at any time. They are a function of what the GSE’s
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When the client demands something of you, do you comply? Why?
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Does USPAP demand precision? This is a question few appraisers have raised, so there is no specific answer to it. USPAP itself uses the word precision just once, in AO-23, but in the context of a discounted cash flow analysis. It uses precise only four times. But only one of those is in Standard 1.
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When residential real estate appraisers transform their appraisals and appraisal reports into a combination the public believes, then the public will have reason to trust us, what we do, why we do it, and how we do it.
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Real Estate Appraisers write for a living, and writing in communication. So, do we real estate appraisers communicate clearly?
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To answer those USPAP and Whatever questions usually means going to USPAP to get an answer. Really, where else would you go? USPAP is not a difficult document to read. What affects us appraisers directly is really in the first twenty-four pages. So, in practicality, the document is not all that long. Its brevity is
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In a real estate appraisal, bracketing serves the appraiser well. Unfortunately, our friends the AMCs and lenders don’t know how to use bracketing, so what they ask of us is generally wrong.
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USPAP and breathing dust should conjure up leaders breathing fresh air, while the followers breathe the leader’s dust. So far, we appraisers have chosen to follow when it comes to what the AMCs and lending industry mistakenly call “appraisal modernization”. Without question, real estate needs to come into the 21st century. But why did appraisers
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