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What Do Appraisers Look For in a Sales Contract?

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Secondly, the appraiser is likely familiar with the local real estate contract forms, customary terms, and conditions of real estate transactions in the area, and might be able to identify irregularities and comment on them. Sometimes I see articles about recently built cave homes for individual owners or part of a home in a cave.

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Strange Properties Appraisers Have Seen

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This satisfies the affordable housing element,” Al Salguero, real property division manager at the Orange County Assessor’s Office, told the publication. The town of The Sea Ranch is the product of architectural pioneers who erected timber-frame, modern structures designed to honor the beauty and serenity of their surroundings.

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NAR: Appraisal License Equivalency Credit for RE Agents?

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In a July 9, 2015, Concept Paper – Alternate Track to the Experience Requirements in the Real Property Appraiser Qualification Criteria, the AQB asked: “Are there practical alternatives for some (or all) of the appraisal experience requirements to include non-appraisal experience?”.

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Appraising Unusual Properties

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It’s just gorgeous architecture, with the turrets and seven fireplaces—one in every bedroom and in the living room and dining room,” he says. “It As a side note, after much ado — the real property Standard 1 has only one word change in five years.) “It’s kind of creepy, to be honest—but really, really cool,” Green says.

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Appraisals and Water Frontage

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Among the rights that come with real property ownership is the right to exclude others. When oceans, lakes, bayous, estuaries, rivers, streams, and ponds are involved, this right is a large part of what property purchasers are paying for.