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To keep my finger on the pulse of the real estate appraisal community, I like to check in on Facebook groups dedicated to our profession. A little while ago, I noticed that the same question was coming up over and over again; ‘can you use the subject as a comparable sale?’

When you...

I was sitting in my office recently when I saw one of my assistants taking a call. Just from watching her and hearing her a little, I could tell it wasn’t going well. She was trying to be courteous and professional, but she was getting flustered.

I asked her to transfer the call over to...

I’ve being using the latest and greatest mobile technology in my work for over 15 years now. I consider myself a seasoned mobile appraiser.  My favored device in the past few years has been a tablet; specifically, the iPad Mini.

I’ve been asked many times in the past few years...

Reserved is not a word that anyone would use to describe Mark Skapinetz; at least of those who know him. Shy is not in his vocabulary. Mark is the founder of the “100% Real Estate Appraisers” group on Facebook. He joined me on April 23, 2017 as a guest on The Appraiser Coach Podcast...

I want to talk to you about the fourth approach to value, and specifically an occasion on which it truly saved my bacon.

Now, I know a lot of you real estate appraisers out there probably started chuckling as soon as you read the words ‘fourth approach to value.' If you did, I get it,...

It wasn’t so long ago that, like many real estate appraisers out there, things just didn’t seem to be adding up for me. I was working plenty of hours, but I was still living from paycheck to paycheck. It was like that for most of the first twelve years that I ran my real estate...