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I want to share with you a tax tip. Unfortunately, we appraisers have to pay taxes. This may help you to make it less painful.
When I was a young appraiser, every year when April 15th rolled around and I saw what I had to pay in taxes, I was so worried I could not sleep...
Tim Andersen, a personal friend and highly qualified and long-experienced appraiser, and I spoke on the proper training of appraisers. Tim's conclusion was that appraisers' training was lacking, was incomplete. While appraisers' basic training consisted of learning what to put in the many...
It is important that you become known locally as an expert. Local attorneys, accountants, lenders, real estate agents, should know that when it comes to real estate values, you are the expert; you are the one they should be contacting. This is especially true during the tenure of the COVID-19...
Did you go on a snipe hunt as a child? Did your friends play this trick on you? We've probably all been on a snipe hunt, so we've all learned that, though there is a bird called a snipe, a snipe hunt is basically a practical joke. How is this a practical joke? You spend a lot of time and a lot of...
We do not have much data from sales during C-19 yet. But are there other ways to determine how the pandemic will affect the nation’s real estate markets? And sometimes, change happens so fast, we have to react equally fast.
How about the listings in your market? Is...
Are appraisers professionals? During these convoluted times of C-19 it is likely we will need to modify to some extent the way we do business, but must we modify our professionalism along with the way we practice real estate appraisal? I submit to you we do not. Let me explain...
