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Summer 2019, Volume 50	From the Publisher Readers Respond Business Valuations: Diversifying Your Appraisal Business Illinois Issues Warning on Hybrid Appraisals Importance of Right of Way Assignments Caring for Your Biggest Investment Coester AMC Out of Business, Appraisers Unpaid Marijuana Appraisals Final Frontier: Private Appraisal Work Come Together Professional Marketplace Industry News Insurance IQ
Winter 2019, Volume 49	From the Publisher Readers Respond Digital Transformation of the Appraisal Industry Disclose and Adjust for Carcinogens – OREP Q&A Street Art: Is There Value? Appraisal Regulatory Modernization: Idea Whose Time Has Come Explaining Your Adjustments A Very Credible Napkin Keys to Business Success in the New Year Comparing Hybrids with 1004s Professional Marketplace Industry News
Fall 2018, Volume 48	From the Publisher Readers Respond Kubler-Ross and the Certified Letter Hybrid Appraisals and Risk Management Risk of Land Volatility Paired Sales Analysis With No Recent Comps Desktop Appraisals: Risk and Reward A Very Credible Napkin How Interest Rates Are Affecting Appraisal Volume Professionals Bill by the Hour Professional Marketplace Industry News
Summer 2018, Volume 47	From the Publisher Readers Respond Applying USPAP Fairly in Review Congress Weighs Rural Appraisal Exemptions I Can’t, Therefore It’s Unbelievable So You Want to Sell Your Appraisal Business? Desktop Appraisals: Risk and Reward Are You Commiting Appraisal Fraud? How to Handle a Lender (request) Part 10 Professional Marketplace Industry News Certifications: Understanding What You’re Signing
Winter 2018, Volume 46	From the Publisher Readers Respond Navigating Hybrid Appraisals Cultural and Religous Effects on Value How Can Appraisers Survive and Thrive in the Next 10 Years? Mobile Appraising: I Can’t See the Red Dot Interview with Fannie Mae’s Zach Dawson Why Appraisers Need Uniform, Federal Enforcement of USPAP Transitioning into Non-Lender How to Handle a Lender (request) Part 10 Professional Marketplace Industry News
Fall 2017, Volume 45	From the Publisher Readers Respond 2017 Fee Survey: Analyzing the Data Beyond USPAP Have You Talked to Another Appraiser Lately? Adjustments: Sample Size, Relevance and Credible Solutions Customary and Reasonable or Anti-Competitive? How Much Value Does the Extra Bedroom Add? (Understanding Regression) Mentoring Fellow Appraisers Solve Problems, Don’t Just Answer Questions Professional Marketplace Industry News
Summer 2017, Volume 44	From the Publisher Readers Respond AVMs to Finally Replace Appraisers? Marketing: Facebook AND Face to Face Four Most Common Appraisal Errors Diversifying Business: Appraiser and Home Inspector Interview with Fannie’s New Top Appraiser One Easy Trick to Get More Work Disposable Appraiser Lenders (and AMCs) Responsible for Appraisal Quality? Express Yourself AQB Digs In: College Degree, Experience Requirements to Change Professional Marketplace Industry News
Winter 2017, Volume 43	From the Publisher Readers Respond Fees Rising Busy? Stop Turning Away Work Training Success Stories Diversifying Your Appraisal Business Making the Case for an Appraiser’s Judgement Physical Characteristics Not Assignment Results Preparing for Your Deposition Appraiser Shortage: Numbers Don’t Lie Professional Marketplace Industry News
Fall 2016, Volume 42	From the Publisher Readers Respond Training the Next Generation Dispelling Myth of Appraiser Shortage Just Trust Your Opinion Are Granny Flats Undervalued Do Your Fee Math (and Raise Your Fees) Insurance IQ Five Steps to Growing an Appraisal Firm Disciplinary Process – How it Works Professional Marketplace Industry News
Spring 2016, Volume 41	From the Publisher Readers Respond The Disappearing Appraiser? True Cost of Lower Fees Time Has Come Today A Little Marketing Here and There Real Estate Fraud: What’s an Appraiser to Do? Extraordinary Assumption or Hypothetical Condition? Liability and FHA Appraisals Observe, Analyze and Report – In That Order
Winter 2016, Volume 40	From the Publisher Readers Respond Appraiser/Whistleblower Wins $85 Million Supporting Market Condition Adjustments Three Day Workweek Claims, Complaints and Your E&O Insurance What is USPAP Compliance? Working Well With AMCs Coester Sues VA, Gets License Back Future of Valuation Legal Doom? Industry News Professional Marketplace
Fall 2015, Volume 39	From the Publisher Readers Respond Louisiana Brings Hammer Down: First to Enforce C&R Fee Provision Supporting Market Condition Adjustments Are You a Tier 1 or Tier 2 Appraiser? Calculating the Cost of an Appraisal Notes from an AMC Appraiser Understanding USPAP: Part 3 National Appraisal Regulation: Is It Working? Closer Look for Home Inspectors When to Report a Claim or Incident Clothes Dryer Vents: Proper and Improper Industry News Professional Marketplace
Spring 2015, Volume 38	From the Publisher Readers Respond Living with Collateral Underwriter Extracting an Adjustment – One Way to Measure Oregon Board Sanctions AMC CU: Seeing What Lenders See Understanding USPAP – Part 2 Appraiser Efficiency: CU Tips Blacklisting Continues Industry News Professional Marketplace Closer Look for Home Inspectors Kitchen Appliance Inspections Why Photos are Important to Your Lawyer Include Your Insurance Docs in Appraisal
Winter 2014, Volume 37	From the Publisher Readers Respond Fannie Mae Warning Letter on the Rise Adjustments: Your Opinion Isn’t Enough Appraisers, AMCs, and Building Bridges Taking Success Into My Own Hands HUD Blacklisting – Guilty Until Proven Innocent Understanding USPAP – Part One: The Preamble Industry News Professional Marketplace Closer Look for Home Inspectors Are You Who Your Clients Think You Are? Complaints: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You
Summer 2014, Volume 36	From the Publisher Readers Respond State Board Moves to Curb Frivolous Complaints Smoking Gun Allows Appraiser to Sue over Blacklisting Highest and Best Use Analysis 12,346 Appraisal Failures Every Week Blacklisted for Refusing Low Fees Appraisal Board Complaints: You Can’t Fight City Hall…Or Can You? Industry News Professional Marketplace Closer Look for Home Inspectors Why Effective Communication is Your Best Defense Pricing Your Services—Strategies and Considerations
Spring 2014, Volume 35	From the Publisher Readers Respond Victory for Customary and Reasonable Fees in Louisiana Off Blacklist: Positive Resolution to Chase Saga Importance of a Good Scope of Work Beware of Consent Decrees New Pressure: Agents Filing Complaints Fighting Appraisal Board Complaints You Only Have to Make 700+/- Decisions in the Next Six Hours Using a Website to Grow Business We Need to do What? Verifying AMC Licensing Industry News Professional Marketplace Closer Look for Home Inspectors How to Dress for Success Should You Include Cost Estimates in Inspection Reports?
Fall 2013, Volume 34	From the Publisher Readers Respond Lenders Up to Old Tricks? Ex-Chief Appraiser Sues Stearns Lending Estimating External Obsolescence “Low Bid” Appraisal Ordering and Its Effect on Quality How to Find Success in Today’s Tough Market Appraiser Wins Judgment Against One-West Bank To Agents with Love (from Appraisers) Appraiser Independence Survey Industry News Closer Look for Home Inspectors Home Inspector Sued by the Seller Should the Buyer’s Agent Attend the Home Inspection?
Summer 2013, Volume 33	From the Publisher Readers Respond Stiffed Appraisers Go After Chase Interview: Appraiser Who Brought Down Countrywide Curing Scope Creep Estimating Functional Obsolescence Stop Stealing My Services How to Report Building Areas Accurately Better Business: Using the “Conditional Decline” Industry News Closer Look for Home Inspectors Silent Sentries: Understanding Smoke Alarms Are You in the “Relationship” Business?
Spring 2013, Volume 32	From the Publisher Readers Respond AMC Fails: Appraisers Stiffed Again Tips from Appraisal Subcommittee Wearing the Business Hat Estimating Physical Deterioration Making “Appraisal Independence” Work for your Business Six Ways to Stay Out of Trouble “Checkbox Chimps” and Review Appraisals Texas Fee Survey Unpacked Survey Results: How Reasonable are Appraisal Turn-Times? Industry News Professional Marketplace Closer Look for Home Inspectors Expert Witness Subpoenas: How to Not Work for Free Best Way to Handle Complaints: Anticipate Them
Winter 2013, Volume 31	From the Publisher Readers Respond Chase Challenges USPAP Solution: Cost-Plus AMC Model? Appraiser Evaluations – Why Not? Why Appraisers Get Sued Appraisers Talk, Congress Listens Blacklisting with a Twist Calculating Diminution of a Contaminated Property Dealing with Negative Reviews Pressure, Subtle Influence and Plausible Deniability Industry News Professional Marketplace Closer Look for Home Inspectors Examining Agent-Inspector Relationship Marketing Secret Weapon: Tape Measures Measure Up Big
Summer 2012, Volume 30	From the Publisher Readers Respond Lender’s Choice: Violate USPAP or Blacklisted Fighting your Way off a Blacklist When Nice Guys Finish Last (AMC Complaints Rise) How to Work Successfully with AMCS How Well do you Know your Rights? Professional Appraiser Series: Other than Lender Work Environmental Due Diligence How to Increase Volume and Quality Effective Marketing: Going Local Land Value Extraction Method Industry News Professional Marketplace Closer Look for Home Inspectors Risk Management: Inspection Basics to Manage Risk OREP Announces New Home Inspector Insurance Program
Winter 2012, Volume 29	From the Publisher Readers Respond Customary and Reasonable Assignments AMC Bad Debt-Lenders Responsible? Building Business What’s Next? Making Good Adjustments Success Collecting AMC Debt from Lender Suspension Merry-Go-Round Advocacy or Independence? Industry News Professional Marketplace Maximizing AMC Orders and Income: Common Errors to Avoid Closer Look for Home Inspectors In Search of Perfect Home Inspection Don’t Inspect for Pests, Sued Anyway
Fall 2011, Volume 28	From the Publisher Readers Respond Why Appraisers Should Pat Themselves on the Back Comp Request or Value Pressure? Choosing Comps in a Tough Market Insurance: Insights and Advice from the Inside Making AMCs Pay Up Taking Back Control of Your Appraisals Industry News Professional Marketplace Closer Look for Home Inspectors How Old is that Water Heater? Three Minute Marketing
Spring 2011, Volume 27	From the Publisher Readers Respond Fed Board Update: Customary and Reasonable Fees Power of Many: State Appraiser Coalitions State Watch: Regulating AMCs Notes from Busy Appraiser Appraiser as Expert Witness Behind Curtain at State Boards Industry News Professional Marketplace Closer Look for Home Inspectors Home Inspection – Staying Safe out There
Winter 2011, Volume 26	From the Publisher Readers Respond Decoding Customary and Reasonable Fees Depositions and Court Testimony Supporting Higher Fees Appraising Faster and Better Growing Business: Giving Clients What they Need Non-Permitted Buildings Understanding Disclosures and Disclaimers Industry News Professional Marketplace Closer Look for Home Inspectors Inspecting the Attic Home Inspector Safety
Fall 2010, Volume 25	From the Publisher Readers Respond Appraiser Game Changer: Financial Reform Bill Passes (Bye-Bye, HVCC) State of Industry: AMC Boycott, Hanging on and Other Issues What’s in Your Workfile? FHA Appraising: Testing your Knowledge Reconsidering Foreclosures Diary of a Happy AMC Appraiser, Part 2 Industry News Professional Marketplace Closer Look for Home Inspectors Chinese Drywall Inspectors-Appraisers – Line Blurring?
Summer 2010, Volume 24	From the Publisher Readers Respond HVCC: Appraiser Last Laugh Taking Back Control of Your Fees HUD Responds: Customary and Reasonable Fees Dealing Effectively with Complaints: When the State Comes Calling Doing It Right: Engagement Letters Growing Appraisal Business – Your Way 2010 Appraiser Survival Kit: FHA Appraiser: I’m No Home Inspector Mapping for Success with Google Five Ways to Grow Business (Online) Industry News Closer Look for Home Inspectors What to Do with Claims
Winter 2010, Volume 23	From the Publisher Readers Respond HVCC Survey Results: Appraisers Still Feel Pressure Appraisers Talk, FHA Listens Decreasing Time and Liability during the FHA Loan Process AMC Regulation: Good for What Ails You Eight Most Common Appraisal Mistakes Using Blogs to Grow your Business Diary of a Happy (AMC) Appraiser Shining Light on Energy Auditing Industry News FHA, Fannie/Freddie Tell it Like it Is Closer Look for Home Inspectors Selling your Services Rodents and Fire
Summer 2009, Volume 22	From the Publisher Readers Respond HVCC Hits: Appraisers Talkback AMC Regulation to the Rescue? Thinking Outside the Check Box Appraising for Non-Lenders Liability Landmines – Appraisers Beware Setting Fees: How Much are you Worth? Appraisal Security Green Appraising New Niche: Energy Auditing Industry News Closer Look for Home Inspectors Surviving Recession: Expand Services – Energy Auditing
Winter 2009, Volume 21	Director’s Message Readers Respond HVCC/AMCs—Change Equals Opportunity Altered Appraisal Reports How to Increase your Residential Income Making Sense of the Market Appraiser Demographics: Who are You? 1004MC: Getting Up to Speed with Fannie’s New Form Slow Times: Survival of the Fittest Industry News Didn’t Make it in Print Valuation Issues and Answers: Foreclosures & Short Sales as Comps How to Succeed by Setting Yourself Apart Appraisal & Identity Security Solution FHA Seamless Renewal Process
Fall 2008, Volume 20	Director’s Message Readers Respond National Housing Act: What Appraisers Need to Know Appraiser Board Turns Tables on Broker FNC-Appraiser Firestorm (Again) Growing Business with Existing Clients Key to Success: Anticipate, Adapt Valuation Issues & Answers: Liability of Appraising REOs & Foreclosures Appraiser-Friendly AMCs Industry News Closer Look for Home Inspectors Marketing for Tough Times Inspectors Errors and Omissions Insurance Q&A

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