The Robert Weiler Company

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

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. The government can take private land and designate it for public use.

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Appraisal Today

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

There were definitely adjustments for homes built by famous, widely known, architects. She designed more than 700 buildings in California during a long and prolific career. I appraised many of them, but never noticed any effect, plus or minus, for historic designation. Fortunately, their names were listed in the MLS.

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Appraisal Today

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Even the larger appraisal firms (with deep pockets) who’ve spent the last few years aggressively training and recruiting appraisers, acquiring small appraisal firms, and rolling up their competitors have rapidly changed their tone. Definitely the best book on this topic I have ever seen. Budget cuts. Retraction.

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Appraisal Today

JULY 7, 2023

In the past, appraisers were trained by FHA to redline, with lower values in Black neighborhoods. Everything has been fully modernized. The uniquely designed, circular home features 3,509 square feet of living space. This is definitely a challenge! == Nearly Half Of Texas Appraiser Complaints Come From The GSEs!

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Appraisal Today

OCTOBER 13, 2023

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. And in 1992, this daring design was purchased and transformed into a single-family home, which recently hit the market for $25 million. Level 1 – Beginner This is where we all start.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 21, 2022

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. Ideally, an engineer designs a model of what they want on software, from an air duct to a prosthetic limb, and it is precisely printed out. Part of the toolbox.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 28, 2021

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. An AMC doing business in every state, then, could pay up to $825,000 a year in combined state regulatory costs, a definite pain in the neck but a small expense on the balance sheet.

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Appraisal Today

MAY 26, 2023

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.

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Appraisal Today

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Modern valuation progress requires three things: 1) a clear definition of “what is a comp?” 2) Appraiser training to reflect this simple data analysis rule; and 3) standards and user requirements (such as the GSE’s) that require this basic data science issue to be evaluated in every appraisal. To read what more, click here.

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Appraisal Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

to provide a specific definition, which includes: Refrigerators Ranges/ovens Dishwashers Garbage disposals Microwaves Washers and dryers It’s important to note this does not include garage door openers, swimming pool pumps, intercoms, sound systems, and security systems. How does the FHA define appliances? By Daniel A. Lee Miller.

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Clear Capital

DECEMBER 14, 2021

So, yeah, it definitely is increasing the rate that people are tapping into that, and that seems like it’s just gonna keep growing. That’s definitely better than the first babbling nonsense that was disguised as a joke. But when I’m talking to a processor, I definitely have to screen really hard for that.

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Clear Capital

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Clear cCapital just announced that we have acquired a Finnish proptech startup called CubiCasa and CubiCasa is incredibly exciting technology that enables anyone with a smartphone and no training to do a 10-minute walkthrough a property and get a fully detailed, accurate floorplan with gross living area. Kenon Chen. Jeff Allen. Kenon Chen.

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Appraisal Today

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Maintain USPAP compliance – Confirm the ROV request came from your client, either directly or through the client’s AMC, acting as an agent for the client, or other party designated as an agent by the client. Keep the definition of intended users as narrow as possible. The importance of this cannot be overstated.

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