Illinois Appraisal Continuing Education & License Renewal

 

WHY IT’S FOR YOU 

• You are licensed in a single state or multiple states and need to renew your license
• You want to take more than the required education hours
• You want the option to take courses in multiple formats at the package savings
• You want access to professional development tools, discounts and MORE

WHAT’S INCLUDED 
Includes All Available Mandatory and Elective Courses Required for Renewal (fulfills requirement)
Customer Phone and Email Suport 7 Days a Week
Education Reported to the State Where Required
Completion Certificates in Every State you are Licensed
Monthly Pro-Series Webinars - an $863 value
Appraisal Professional Development Content Library
Online Appraisal Community
Industry Partner Discounts,
2 Years UNLIMITED Access
2 Payment Options

*This is an auto-renew membership. Two-year commitment is required at the time of initial purchase.

Explore the different types of appraisal techniques and creative methods needed to appraise complex and non-conforming properties. 

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS: 

• Examine several different appraisal techniques and learn how creativity (e.g., use of non-traditional appraisal techniques) can be employed to solve appraisal problems
• Review complex residential properties (i.e. 1- to 4-unit residential properties); learn how the techniques also apply to the appraisal of non-residential properties 
• Course designed for novice and experienced appraisers

Appraisal fraud is one of the fastest growing financial crimes in the real estate industry. This course will take you through the integral steps you need to take to avoid mortgage fraud as an appraiser. 

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS: 

• Get an in-depth look at mortgage and valuation fraud and the various fraud schemes common today 
• Examine the appraiser’s role in various types of real estate and mortgage-related swindles 
• Learn the steps you can take to limit your liability and decrease the likelihood of becoming ensnared in a mortgage fraud scheme

This course is intended to assist appraisers in understanding the need for and requirements to develop a limited scope appraisal for use in certain types of residential lending and servicing.  The discussion of several different types of limited scope appraisals involves the development and reporting of the appraisal in accordance with the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP).  

Course highlights: 

• Compare and contrast the most common alternative valuation products
• Recognize when an approach may be omitted from a limited scope appraisal assignment 
• Be able to comply with USPAP STANDARD 2 requirements for written appraisal reports
• Apply the concepts learned in the course to the review of a limited scope appraisal assignment and report 

Whether your sales and rental data is plentiful or scarce, this course will uncover methods to strengthen your appraisal quality through supporting your adjustments. 

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS: 

• Examine the appropriate methodologies to develop and support adjustments using the Sales Comparison approach
• Learn the proper sequence of adjustments 
• Discover the numerous methods of developing gross living area, bedroom, and bathroom adjustments 
• Improve your income capitalization skills to develop and support adjustments 
• Get insights on developing market-based adjustments for changing market conditions over time, builder upgrades, sales concessions, basements finishes, outbuildings, accessory dwelling units, and view amenities
• Audio and video included in course

Gain the skills and insights needed for effective appraisal litigation. 

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS: 

• Explore opportunities available in litigation support assignments 
• Discover what’s needed to provide a work product and testimony 
• Examine the structure of a civil trial, the rules of evidence, USPAP requirements, and the mechanics of a civil trial

Leverage your sales comparison approach and income approach knowledge to capitalize on limited-service hotel appraisals. 

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS: 

• Gain a solid foundation in the hotel market and the factors that influence supply and demand 
• Use the sales comparison approach to uncover how some adjustments are unique or adapted to hotels 
• Use the income approach to understand the estimation of income, expenses and capital expenditures specific to limited-service hotels 
• Learn how to apply the income approach to both stabilized and un-stabilized limited-service hotels as well as those requiring renovation

Learn how to apply the most effective valuation methods to full-service hotels and build on your knowledge of hotel operations. 

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS: 

• Learn how to develop accurate and realistic assessments of value on full-service hotels 
• Explore factors that influence supply and demand 
• Grow your sales comparison approach and income approach skills