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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You think everything you need for a credible appraisal and non-misleading appraisal report are already in that report, right? Well, after this podcast, maybe you’ll have your eyes opened!
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Get out of your appraisal silo and grow a pair! A new pair of skill sets! A pair if new books of business! A new pair of clients! Whatever! But get out of your GSE mindset and grow a pair!
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Appraisers, change is inevitable. Are we going to adapt to that change or, for are own benefit, are we going to demand the status quota continue? If we are not keeping up, we are getting left behind!
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Appraisers must stand up and stand tall to stand out!
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USPAP and What’s Omitted? What does that mean? Really, we mean what’s omitted from your appraisal and report. It is true, you should omit very little from the appraisal, as well as from the report. Why? A sale is not a comparable sale unless it has the same highest and best use as the subject.Â
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Really! It’s OK to use the pending purchase and sale contract as a comparable on the sales comparison approach grid.
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USPAP and expanding horizons. Now that the appraisal business is slow, it’s time to expand your horizons.  This means taking steps you have never taken before.  It means engaging in activities in which you’ve never engaged before. We will need to adopt a mindset we have never adopted before. In other words, it means change. Appraisers
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USPAP and three questions? Â What does that mean? Â It means that, in this podcast, we are going to tackle three questions. Â They are questions appraisers constantly ask. Â This consistency means that these answers are not cast in stone. Â That is a shame. Â Therefore, we’re going to answer them in a manner that is applicable to
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