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Conservation Easement in Ohio: A Guide to Protecting Our Treasured Land

The Robert Weiler Company

The importance of a fully modern open space preservation vehicle – a conservation easement in Ohio – cannot be better summarized than by our 26th President. A simple conservation easement definition is a legal contract to protect private land, permanently. A contract between the landowner and the buyer is legally binding.

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The 11 best real estate CRMs for 2024

Housing Wire

Its focus on automation, efficiency, and ROI tracking makes it a powerful tool for modern real estate agents. Your CRM needs top-notch lead tracking and nurturing tools to turn those maybes into definites. Its focus on hyperlocal marketing and behavior-driven follow-ups make it a top choice for real estate professionals.

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What level appraiser are you?

Appraisal Today

Depending on how you were trained, at the beginner level you typically view appraisals as forms — forms with checkboxes to be checked or left blank. However, based on the definition of misleading in the prior version of USPAP, many appraisers were concerned they could be disciplined for minor, unintentional reporting errors.

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Appraising Historical Homes

Appraisal Today

There were definitely adjustments for homes built by famous, widely known, architects. Keep the definition of intended users as narrow as possible. Keep your definition of intended use as narrow as possible to describe how your appraisal will be used by your client. Worth reading. A good summary. Others are not.

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Can 3-D printed homes help solve the housing crisis?

Housing Wire

To Ballard, 3D printing technology is evolving to solve a crisis in modern day America and the world: The failure to meet people’s demand for housing. A man in Iowa in the late 1800s would get a loan from the bank, take a train to Chicago, purchase a home, come back and the house is delivered, and his neighbors help him assemble it.”.

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The appraisal industry’s hidden hand

Housing Wire

He started contracting with home mortgage lenders to appraise the value of the property tied to a loan. “It A variation of the conduct code was inserted into the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, and the modern AMC was off and running. You start becoming trained to look in a different way.

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FHA: Cosmetic vs. MPR Repairs

Appraisal Today

NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on appraisal “modernization”, bias hearing, bad appraiser, USPAP, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc. == Appraiser pleads guilty in $1.3B Conservation easement appraisals are a definite risk for appraisers. billion tax fraud scheme.