>> See Past News Editions >> Click to Print>>Upcoming Webinar What to Do When the State Comes Calling Presenter: Tim Andersen, MAI Date: June 5, 10-11 a.m. PDT Learn how to protect your license and your livelihood with this live webinar! >> Slow? Get Busy: Work directly with clients, bypass AMCs, get paid full-fees and…
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Just like an AMC has a responsibility to ensure that an appraiser is licensed or certified, in certain states, appraisers also have a responsibility to ensure that the AMC is appropriately registered/licensed to do business in that state.
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Click to Read Current Issue >> Click to Print >> Am I a Working RE Subscriber? >> SEO-Enhanced Appraiser Websites Editor’s Note: Here is some food for thought from appraiser Dustin Harris. His suggestion makes sense from a valuation perspective and also might release some of the…
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With over 1,000 appraisers participating, the results of this new survey shed some light on the state of appraiser independence in the last quarter of 2013.
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Editor’s Note: Here is some food for thought from regular contributor and Mobile Appraising Training Package author, Dustin Harris. His suggestion makes sense from a valuation perspective and also might release some of the pressure on appraisers to “hit the number.” The OREP/WRE Appraiser Independence Survey has over 1,000 respondents and hundreds of comments. We…
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Editor’s Note: Marketing guru Roy Meyer shows us that while we can’t increase the amount of hours in a day, we can completely change how we use those hours to achieve success. Roy is presenting a free webinar on this topic Oct. 2 (details below). How to Find Success in Today’s Tough Market by Roy…
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When was the last time you indicated a functional obsolescence in the cost approach? Did you also reflect it in the sales comparison approach? Would you? Should you? These are questions we rarely, if ever, consider. Perhaps we even avoid the issue when we think the house we are appraising has functional…
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The appraiser community is still reeling from the decision of a Florida bankruptcy judge to absolve JPMorgan Chase of all liability in the case of Evaluation Solutions/ES Appraisal Services (ESA) bankruptcy case.
Over 10,000 real estate appraisers and agent/brokers were left unpaid by ESA, an Appraisal Management Company (AMC) that procured valuation reports on behalf of…
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