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How to Stop Wasting Time on Spam Calls

Your phone rings, it’s a local number and you answer right away.  Afterall, it could be an appraisal order from a new customer, a potential homeowner, a local bank, or a realtor. It’s none of these, it’s some stupid robocall. Even being on the “Do Not Call” registry won’t help, you can still end up […]

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The Tier V Position Must Function at 30,000 Feet

You have heard me talk (a lot!) about Tier I, Tier II, Tier III, and Tier IV appraisal office  skills. Now we’re going to talk about Tier V office skills, which are a vision over the first three.  The person who occupies Tier I or Tier II basically has no appraisal skills because, at these

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The Wheels on the Appraiser Bus Go Round and Round

You probably have heard me refer to the analogy of the bus in Jim Collins’ book, Good to Great. He compares a business to a bus and talks about making sure that you have the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the buss, and that those people who are on the bus

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Can Your Appraisal Business Run Without You

I think it is important to be able to take a vacation from time to time. Perhaps your vacation is an opportunity to build relationships or simply a time to relax and get away from it all, but you should be able to leave your office for one to two weeks without it having a

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The Appraiser Gap Between Where We Are & Where We Want to Be

We appraisers must make decisions every day.  However, sometimes taking that step is really difficult.  I can’t take away the difficulty and discomfort inherent in making a decision, but this blog just may help you to understand that discomfort between having to make that a decision and having made that decision, is really a time

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New Client, Same Property

There is a problem that I would guess most appraisers run into on a somewhat frequent basis. Imagine the following scenario (it probably won’t be too hard since you have likely encountered something similar): You do an appraisal for Client A. Somewhere during the loan process, the loan is turned over or changed to Client

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Appraiser Politics

  Recently, I noticed many appraisers were excited about a new bill that was introduced in Virginia. This bill initially sounded favorable to me, but as I examined it more closely, I quickly became concerned with the excitement that was building up around it in the appraiser community. Laws in general are typically difficult to

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How I Make $100 an Hour as an Appraiser

Most sources online estimate that appraisers make an average of $25 an hour. While this used to be accurate for me when I first started out as an appraiser, I have applied principles of prosperity to my business that have allowed me to make much more per hour. Much of what I have learned that

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Growing a Weed-Free Appraisal Business

As business owners, we are all too well accustomed to the problems or “weeds” that pop on a frequent basis. I want to give you some tips for growing a healthy business that runs a little more smoothly. When it comes to growing a healthy, weed-free lawn, there are two basic approaches one can take:

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Professionals Work on Billable Hours

I find that most times when appraisers complain about fees (myself included), we are often not willing to correct our own notion that “it’s all about how much we can fetch in fees.” Isn’t it time we retrain our thinking as appraisers, because it’s not just about the set fees. It’s more about how we

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