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The Appraisal Foundation recently announced that they are lowering their standards for appraisers to get their appraiser licenses. Prior to April 30, 2018, licensed general appraisers needed 2,000 hours of experience over the course of a minimum of twelve months. As of May 1, 2018, this has now...

Since we spend so much time in them, let's talk about your appraisal vehicle.  How organized is it? Does it make you more efficient? Does it help you create value for others? Is it an appraisal tool, or just another thing that's part of your stuff?  

Let's start with your computer bag....

How do you reconcile between the value indications of the three approaches, or even between the range of value indication in even one approach? How you answer this is important since SR1-6 calls for us to answer both of these questions as part of our reconciliation.

USPAP has no specific...

There is a problem that I would guess most appraisers run into on a somewhat frequent basis. Imagine the following scenario (it probably won’t be too hard since you have likely encountered something similar): You do an appraisal for Client A. Somewhere during the loan process, the loan is...

I teach a number of classes and workshops on mobile appraising.  I define mobile appraising as using tablets and laser measuring devices to gather data at your real estate appraisal inspections.  There are two questions that I get asked frequently: “Which tablet should I...

We all have twenty-four hours in a day. One’s economic status, ethnicity, or gender doesn’t change that. I believe the secret to success is finding ways to create more time in, a day or in other words: buy time. Now it may sound as though I am contradicting myself, but when...