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What Appraisers Wish Real Estate Agents Understood

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What Appraisers Wish Real Estate Agents Understood McKissock Survey Question: “What’s one thing you wish real estate agents knew about the appraisal process? I will always remember when, many years ago, a top local real estate agent asked me why I was driving around taking photos of homes.

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7 best real estate schools in Massachusetts for 2024

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12 months course access Summit: All features of Peak + RE14R07: Architecture Class and 1 on 1 course & study support. The Massachusetts Real Estate License Exam consists of multiple choice questions and is based on the 40-hour pre-licensing curriculum. 25 hrs livestream access. 40 hrs livestream access.

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Appraiser Has Very Big Problems With Borrower

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After a major interior makeover, the architecturally significant home is in Houston‘s upscale Piney Point Village neighborhood. That’s what makes midcentury architecture so appealing: It brings the outside in.” An example of this in real estate appraisal is the purchase and sale contract. baths, 5,550 sq.ft.,

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Weird Real Estate Agent Photos for Appraisers

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57 Weird Real Estate Agent Photos. Excerpt: Yes, many great real estate photos really capture the house. More Terrible Real Estate Agent Photos for Appraisers. It sits in the Sarasota beachfront neighborhood of Lido Shores, an area that’s a haven for modern architecture. percent from 5.82

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How to select appraisal comps

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Classically designed to show a high degree of architectural integrity and balance. According to Tony Mariotti, a real estate agent and founder of RubyHome in Los Angeles, there currently isn’t much incentive for builders to construct the types of fortifications in the listings below. percent from 6.84 percent from 7.04

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What is Your Appraiser Level? Why Does It Make a Difference?

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Although architectural styles used to signify something of their region—think Craftsman homes in the Northwest, Colonial in the Northeast, or the sprawling California ranch house—today’s architectural styles are less locationally driven and more about the individual lifestyles being framed within them. percent from 6.39

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ROV (Reconsideration of Value) Changes – FHA and GSEs

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Ryan’s blog focuses on local real estate agents and market conditions, a most excellent method of becoming the “go-to” appraiser and getting lots of referrals from agents. I first started writing a real estate column in the local newspaper back in the late 1980s but did not like it. percent from 7.29