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Many of you are striving towards building and changing your appraisal firm. You are working to grow your business, delegate more, and improve the quality of your services. It can be easy as a business owner to become overly excited about the many incredible possibilities growing your business can...
The hiring process can be very time consuming and difficult. It is hard to find a qualified individual that will meet your needs and integrate well into your office culture. Interviews can be one of the most time consuming aspects of the hiring process. I have developed a system in my office to...
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...