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Real Estate Sales Agreements: Understanding Your Contract

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This is a legally binding agreement between the buyer and seller that helps ensure the sale will be completed according to the contract’s outlined conditions. Real estate purchase contracts come into play to protect both parties and move the sale forward, helping prevent either party from wasting the other’s time and money.

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How To Appraise Rural Properties

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NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on USPAP and Personal Inspection, GSE Appraisal Modernization, Transaction costs and values including real estate commissions, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc. = Read on blog www.appraisaltoday.com/blog Posted by noon Friday.

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Desktop Appraisals: Who, When, and Why

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Desktop Appraisals: Who, When, and Why Excerpts: The ability to identify property characteristics without a personal inspection is not a new concept. Thanks to Tom for writing this blog post. Read on blog www.appraisaltoday.com/blog Posted by noon Friday. You can subscribe to the blog in the upper right of each blog page.

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Common USPAP Appraiser Violations

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To read more, including all the violations, Click Here My comments: The blog post is well written, relatively short, and worth reading, if only for reminders. This home’s private massage room, primary suite with sauna, and lazy-river pool were all designed for relaxing. baths, 19,660 sq.ft., baths, 19,660 sq.ft., ® this week.

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New 2024 USPAP Q&As

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Personal Inspection I recently completed an appraisal on a residential dwelling for Lender A that sells loans to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the report was completed on a GSE form. Lender B indicated there wasno need for me to re-inspect the home, since my previous inspection date was only a few days earlier.

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Fannie Files Complaint Against Appraiser

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The inspection was uneventful. I was given a lockbox combination and inspected the vacant home. NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post Modular Homes Data Plates, ADU income, Pickleball courts and other interesting home improvements, , unusual homes, mortgage origination and more!

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USPAP Myths for Appraisers

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NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on New CA bias classes, 2024 New Years resolutions, 2024 goals, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc. Arouse the suspicion of an entire neighborhood when inspecting comparable sales. Read on blog www.appraisaltoday.com/blog Posted by noon Friday.