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Buyer agency: a crucial historical shift in real estate

Housing Wire

Now, real estate professionals champion the cause of buyers, managing over 100 tasks in each transaction to ensure their clients’ best interests are served. Many are already shouldering the burdens of high debt-to-income ratios, mortgage insurance premiums, and elevated interest rates to secure a foothold in homeownership.

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Commercial Real Estate Appraisal Review: Essential Handbook to a Necessary and Influential 2nd Opinion

The Robert Weiler Company

The obligation to the client isn’t met. Consider the grantor’s position when considering a disbursement for a mixed-use development, conservation easement, or specialty use property. It isn’t clear who owns the appraised property. Too much time has elapsed between the CRE appraisal and the loan.

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Appraisers: How and Why To Check Carbon Monoxide Detectors

Appraisal Today

Bunzel was also able to provide some helpful tips for appraisers as far as how to communicate with their clients about CO detectors. For example, Bunzel says that appraisers and home inspectors should make it clear to their clients that they do not warranty if the device is working, just that it is there. To read more, click here .

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Real Estate Real Fast EP6 (with Greg Naughton, 22+ years experience in construction and 10 years experience as an investor and builder)

Listing Spark

That’s a double edged sword as well with bringing a client on at the end of a project and having to manage the changes. After dealing with insurance, it ended up setting them back three months. “I Going through fire and insurance investigations and whatnot. What are the easements on the lot? How many trees?

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FHA: Cosmetic vs. MPR Repairs

Appraisal Today

In 2007, he started appraising conservation easements, which are specified areas of land earmarked for environmental conservation. Owners with conservation easements can claim an income tax deduction. Conservation easement appraisals are a definite risk for appraisers. They are not easy to do.

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Real Estate Appraisers Share How They Stand Out from the Competition

McKissock

To help simplify things, we’ve organized the comments below into the following categories of ways to stand out from the competition: Client relations. Client relations. “I like to think it is my customer service, and client relations.” No matter the client.” Background or perspective.