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Youâve 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 youâre almost there - only for you to get told, âWe cancelled, didnât the bank tell you?â
For those involved in real estate appraisal, this is an all too common e...
Well folks, I just had what I call a âkneecap to kneecapâ 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 whoâve taken my Go Create Some Value worksh...
You might have noticed a certain theme running through some of my recent blog posts. Iâve been focusing on the fundamentals of real estate appraisal; the importance of location, differentiating between price and value and so on. Itâs been a kind of Appraisal 101, if you will.
Iâve been doing this ...
Itâs one of the oldest sayings in the industry and youâve all heard it a million times before. âWhat are the three biggest rules of real estate? Location, location, location.â The thing you have to realize, however, is that itâs not just a tired old axiom! Thereâs also a valuable truth in there, whi...
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...
If youâve not read âGood to Greatâ by Jim Collins yet, then I highly recommend that you do so. Itâs been a few years now since I read it myself, but the lessons this book contains have really stuck with me.
In the book, Collins does multiple case studies of two, similar companies who work in the s...