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Appraisals: Using Comps Across a Freeway?

Appraisal Today

NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on time saving tips, Waivers, Non-lender appraisals, Tax savings, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc. 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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NAR: Appraisal License Equivalency Credit for RE Agents?

Appraisal Today

Counseling buyers, sellers, owners, and tenants on inspections and remediations, improvements, and the appraisal process. Over the years, I observed that successful real estate agents seldom switched to the much less profitable appraisal side. NAR Appraisal Survey 2022. passed November 28, 2022. It should go both ways.

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Appraisers: How and Why To Check Carbon Monoxide Detectors

Appraisal Today

As it turns out, both the appraiser and the home inspector had each independently inspected the home 18 months prior and both mistakenly reported a few of the smoke alarms present at the home, as CO detectors. To read more of this long blog post with many topics, click Read More Below!! To read more click here .

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Fannie Mae Takes A Closer Look at Appraisals

Appraisal Today

Failures to personally inspect and photograph comparables. . Failures to personally inspect and photograph comparables. FNMA indicates that their 2022 lending volume is down 47% from 2021 and is expected to drop by another 50% in 2023. Many thanks to Ryan Lundquist’s 2020 blog post for the very appropriate image above!

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What level appraiser are you?

Appraisal Today

NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on retirement, USPAP 2024 Changes, school district app, unusual homes, mortgage origination and more! How to Level Up as an Appraiser By Conrad Meertins Jr. Excerpts: The key is not the letters but the competency or skill. You might answer, “Absolutely!” can add up.

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Inside the effort to outlaw real estate ‘love letters’

Housing Wire

As local housing markets across the country have hit alarming highs over the past 18 months, buyers desperate to get into a house have tried anything and everything to win the deal. Total Real Estate Group is asking for a federal judge to block the law before it goes into effect on January 1, 2022. 3601 et seq.).”.