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? 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! 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? 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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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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“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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Are they market value? Those Zillow purchases and now their sales of the properties they bought. There is a reason to ask. Recently, a state appraisal board took an appraiser “behind the woodshed”. Why? That state board sanctioned the appraiser for (among other reasons) using ibuyer sales and purchases as comparable sales. Really?! Yes! As
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USPAP and hot sauce? Really?! Yes, there is a connection. That connection is the basis of analysis. So, what is analysis? For appraisers, it is really just a side-by-side comparison. Comparison of what? We compare, side-by-side, attributes of properties. Which properties? What attributes? See, that’s the connection. How hot is a hot sauce? There is
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On widgets and doohickeys, you say? And old mother USPAP, too. What does all this mean? Well, widgets are made up of lots of doohickeys. We deconstruct that widget into its component doohickeys. Once we have them all on the workbench we have deconstructed the widget. Is there more? Yes. Now we look at the
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Are there really three USPAP secrets you need to know? What are they? Why are they secrets? Is The Appraiser’s Advocate website the only place I can find them? OK! Enough questions! What are the secrets about extraordinary assumptions and hypothetical conditions I need to know? First, the three USPAP secrets are not really secrets.
