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Professionals Work on Billable Hours marketing-advertising-fees-clients-appraisals Aug 02, 2018

I find that most times when appraisers complain about fees (myself included), we are often not willing to correct our own notion that ā€œitā€™s all about how much we can fetch in fees.ā€ Isnā€™t it time we retrain our thinking as appraisers, because itā€™s not just about the set fees. Itā€™s more about how we ...

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How to Charge Cancellation Fees marketing-advertising-fees-clients-appraisals Jul 30, 2018

Youā€™ve been driving for more than an hour and a half to your appraisal appointment. So, you decide to call the client and let them know youā€™re almost there - only for you to get told, ā€˜We cancelled, didnā€™t the bank tell you?ā€™

For those involved in real estate appraisal, this is an all too common e...

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Get In Front of Problems trainees-employees-mentors-appraising Jul 23, 2018

Well folks, I just had what I call a ā€œkneecap to kneecapā€ meeting with one of my key employees. This is an individual who has been with me for a while. I love her to death because she is wonderful in so many ways, but it was time to do some auditing. Those whoā€™ve taken my Go Create Some Value worksh...

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Age is Relative inspections-reports-values-photography-appraising Jun 27, 2018

You might have noticed a certain theme running through some of my recent blog posts. Iā€™ve been focusing on the fundamentals of real estate appraisal; the importance of location, differentiating between price and value and so on. Itā€™s been a kind of Appraisal 101, if you will.

Iā€™ve been doing this ...

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Location, Location, Location inspections-reports-values-photography-appraising Jun 15, 2018

Itā€™s one of the oldest sayings in the industry and youā€™ve all heard it a million times before. ā€œWhat are the three biggest rules of real estate? Location, location, location.ā€ The thing you have to realize, however, is that itā€™s not just a tired old axiom! Thereā€™s also a valuable truth in there, whi...

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Price vs Value inspections-reports-values-photography-appraising Jun 11, 2018

Nobody can deny that there are a lot of issues plaguing the appraisal industry at the moment. I want to talk about one issue that I sometimes see: the incorrect usage of extremely important terms.

Many real estate professionals use certain terms interchangeably, even when they have significantly d...

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