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How To Appraise Rural Properties

Appraisal Today

There may be seminars available. 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. = You may have some similar rural experience now!

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Fannie Mae Takes A Closer Look at Appraisals

Appraisal Today

Failures to personally inspect and photograph comparables. I also think that now is the time to increase your appraisal skills by taking classes and seminars. This week I had a long conversation with a local agent about an insurance office converted to a home near where I live. What’s happening now. I speak with them regularly.

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Appraisers: Watch for Concessions and Kickbacks

Appraisal Today

Solutions to Keep You Safe Make sure you have a complete signed purchase contract. In the appraisal, list how many pages of the contract you have in your possession (In case someone is hiding pages from you). I have taken many of his seminars over the years. Federal law, FNMA/FHLMC guidelines and USPAP all point to a solution.

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A CALL FOR MORE ACCESSORY DWELLINGS AMID HOUSING CRUNCH

Will Springer Realtor

Insurers are increasingly exposed to the climate crisis and are currently under-charging premiums by about 58% to at-risk property owners, the report states. or 4% of the population – live in high-flood-risk areas, but FEMA maps used by the insurance industry are often out of date, including 11% of them last updated in the 1970s and ‘80s.