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Using Videos to Market Your Appraisal Business

If you want to attract more non-lender work, you need to have a strong online presence. A lot of non-lender work for appraisers is a result of whether they can be found with a Google search. Most importantly, you must have a website for your appraisal business, but that website does little good if it […]

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Should Adjustments Actually Be Done?

How much credit should we give ourselves when it comes to making adjustments? Making adjustments is controversial. USPAP says nothing about adjustments – it does not require us to make them. They are a GSE construct. So, should we real estate appraisers stop making adjustments? Clients pay us for opinions of value, so our adjustments

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Appraiser Integrity

No, I am not talking about USPAP, confidentially, or unbiased value evaluation. While these are all important, I am simply talking about doing what you say you will do as an appraiser. Trust is a fundamental principle when it comes to business, and if your clients cannot trust you, it is likely that you will

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Creating Your Circle of Influence

  One aspect of my job that I love, is the opportunity that I have to associate with many inspirational individuals. It is my pleasure and honor to be surrounded by valuation experts who push me to be a better appraiser.   I have also encountered many appraisers who are very negative towards the industry.

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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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Price vs Value

  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 different definitions. Appraisers, unfortunately, are not

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The Way Things Used To Be

It’s a common complaint in our industry that real estate appraisers haven’t had a raise in two decades. The argument goes that twenty years ago, the standard fee for an appraisal was $350. Fast forward twenty years and it’s still $350. That’s a great sound bite, but the actual logic is deeply flawed. In real

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