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How To Appraise Rural Properties

Appraisal Today

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. = Is the GSE’s “Appraisal Modernization” Really Just Mass Appraisal? By Dallas T.

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Emergency Preparedness Guide for Individuals With a Mobility Impairment

Raleigh Realty

If you are a person with a mobility issue, you can use the safety features that modern technology provides for us to create the safest home possible. You can research local medical shelters and transportation options during evacuations. Your local government and the federal government may have options for assisting you as well.

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The surprising future of mortgage technology

Housing Wire

Purveyors of very complex financial instruments, sold to risk-averse investors under the careful oversight of government regulators, have given us a process that must conform to investor and regulatory compliance requirements. Many were pleasantly surprised that today’s modern web-based LOS platforms were designed to accommodate this.

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The Switch to Everything Electric in Your Home

Will Springer Realtor

More homeowners understand the importance of “decarbonizing” everything from products to transportation and especially their homes – but where to begin? The decrease in energy usage has mostly come from the improvements made to heating equipment, along with better window design, insulation and construction techniques.

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Appliances for FHA appraisals

Appraisal Today

The tremendous growth in the creation of infrastructure for the expansion of major cities, water systems, canals for transportation of goods, road and street systems, inevitably required acquisition of private property. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t has become the new normal in the real estate appraisal profession. Lee Miller.

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A CALL FOR MORE ACCESSORY DWELLINGS AMID HOUSING CRUNCH

Will Springer Realtor

Many local governments permit at least one dwelling unit with the main residence and some locales accept an attached and detached unit on the same property. The cities of Seattle and Renton offer pre-approved ADU designs to help streamline the government-approval process which can often be onerous. Kirkland gets it too.

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PREDICTIONS, PARKING, POLLUTED PIPES

Will Springer Realtor

The seemingly mundane asphalt-covered piece of real estate silently champions the ebb and flow of modern living. This dynamic of private vehicle vs. public transportation will play out first in dense areas – like Seattle, Bellevue, Federal Way – and will be interesting to watch. It’s apparently too tall of a task. with basement).