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Is A Smartphone Big Enough To Appraise With? technology-mobile-website-socialmedia-appraising Jul 20, 2017

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...

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Who Is Mark Skapinetz? inspections-reports-values-photography-appraising Jun 12, 2017

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...

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Is There a Fourth Approach to Real Estate Value? inspections-reports-values-photography-appraising Mar 20, 2017

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,...

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Take Some Time OUT of Your Appraisal Business successful-volume-appraisal-business Mar 01, 2017

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...

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Appraisal Volume and Appraisal Quality successful-volume-appraisal-business Jan 18, 2017

I do around 4 times as many appraisals as my competitors. That’s not a boast: I’ve done my research, and it’s the truth. People in the real estate appraisal industry know how much work I get through, and the question they always ask is, ‘How do you do so much without...

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Mobile Appraising and Workfiles workfiles-writeups-scope-creep-appraising Jan 08, 2017

When it comes to the use of technology in real estate appraisal, we’re at a kind of crossroads.

On the one hand ,you have the advocates who like to try out all the latest and greatest apps and gadget. Those of you who have listened to my podcasts, read my blogs or seen my workshops know...

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