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Home Appraisals – What Do They Look For?

D Fritz Appraisals

Home appraisers are trained to inspect and measure your property and perform comparisons that result in an accurate valuation for the current housing market. Financial institutes or mortgage lenders will require an appraisal to ensure the home is worth the amount of money being requested in the loan or mortgage.

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FHA: Cosmetic vs. MPR Repairs

Appraisal Today

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 Owners with conservation easements can claim an income tax deduction. billion tax fraud scheme.

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ROV (Reconsideration of Value) Changes – FHA and GSEs

Appraisal Today

New FHA ROV Policy By Dave Towne, May 3, 2024 Excerpts: Up until recently, there has never been a standardized policy for mortgage loan related Reconsideration of Value (ROV) requests after an appraisal has been submitted. Now there is, per the attached PDF HUD/FHA mortgage letter. The mortgage loan officer handling the loan?

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Appraisals and Water Frontage

Appraisal Today

The canal was owned by the state with an unclear easement for building beyond the rear lot line. NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on Changing real estate market, rate increases, desktop appraisals, USPAP and state boards, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc. June 20, 2022.