Louisiana Appraisal Continuing Education & License Renewal

 WHY IT’S FOR YOU 

• You are licensed in Louisiana or multiple states and need to renew your license
• You want the option to take courses in multiple formats: Instructor-led classroom, instructor-led webinar, instructor-led livestream or self-paced online, at the package savings
• You want access to the largest classroom and online course library including the monthly Pro Series webinars at no additional charge
• You want access to professional development classes, tools, discounts and MORE (includes professional certifications)

WHAT’S INCLUDED 

• Choose from entire Louisiana CE Library of Mandatory and Elective Courses Required for Renewal (fulfills requirement)
• Includes USPAP Course and USPAP Book or PDF - $75 value - FREE
• Customer Phone and Email Support 7 Days a Week
• Education Reported to Louisiana as Required
• Completion Certificates in Louisiana and in Every State Licensed - Multi-State Credit - $100 value/state - FREE
• Monthly Pro Series Webinars - an annual $863 value - FREE
• CLHA Luxury Home Appraiser Certification - Application, Courses, Exam, Certificate - $650 value - FREE
• Appraisal Professional Development Content Library - FREE
• Online Appraisal Community - FREE
• Industy Partner Discounts - FREE
• 2 Years UNLIMITED Access
• 2 Payment Options - Annually or Biennially
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Get up to speed on the latest edition of USPAP with The Appraisal Foundation’s official online course. This course will cover all the revisions in the 2020-2021 version of the National USPAP Update course plus it will help you apply the requirements of USPAP in situations that occur during your day-to-day work.

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS:

• Gain fluency and mastery in USPAP concepts and applications
• Go in-depth on the issues that affect your daily appraisal practice
• Learn through the use of peer-polls, quizzes, course video and downloadable aids

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

This course will examine the general topic of factory-built housing and then focus on manufactured housing, specifically HUD Code homes. The course will introduce MH Advantage® which is Fannie Mae’s program to help ease the nation’s affordable housing shortage by providing financing on modern, high-quality manufactured homes. The course includes case studies dealing with comparable selection and adjustment support, and will cover also common deficiencies found in manufactured home appraisals.

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 

This course covers several aspects of appraising proposed construction or renovations of a luxury home. It is expected that students taking this course are already familiar with the cost approach to value and the fundamentals of appraising new construction properties. Learn the key elements for successful completion of these appraisal assignments and the special issues involved with appraising proposed custom luxury homes. Examples and illustrations are included to enhance the learning experience. 
• Recognize the essential components and the different types of construction drawings. 
• Understand the most common luxury home site valuation methods: sales comparison, extraction, and allocation. 
• Comprehend the main considerations and common errors in calculating the cost new of luxury home improvements.

Get up to speed on the latest edition of USPAP with The Appraisal Foundation’s official online course. This course will cover all the revisions in the 2020-2021 version of the USPAP Update for Non-Residential Real Property course plus it will help you apply the requirements of USPAP in situations that occur during your day-to-day work.

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS:

• Gain fluency and mastery in USPAP concepts and applications
• Go in-depth on the issues that affect your daily appraisal practice
• Learn through the use of peer-polls, quizzes, course video and downloadable aids

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

This package has been created for the commercial appraiser. It contains commercial appraisal topics and the 7-hour USPAP class.

Gain insights on appraisal review assignments and the effect USPAP has on these assignments, the reviewers, and the work of appraisers involved in the assignments. Course developed by The Appraisal Foundation. 
NOTE: This course is not a substitute for the 7-hour National USPAP Course, which appraisers are required to complete every two years.  

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS: 

• Gain a better understanding of USPAP in conjunction with producing appraisal reviews that are USPAP compliant 
• Get guidance and insights for the reports you produce that will be reviewed 
• Learn how to raise your level of professionalism and the standards for your appraisal reports

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

This course will examine the general topic of factory-built housing and then focus on manufactured housing, specifically HUD Code homes. The course will introduce MH Advantage® which is Fannie Mae’s program to help ease the nation’s affordable housing shortage by providing financing on modern, high-quality manufactured homes. The course includes case studies dealing with comparable selection and adjustment support, and will cover also common deficiencies found in manufactured home appraisals.

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

Appraising owner-occupied commercial properties raises several more questions than the appraisal of investor-owned properties. Commercial appraisers will find answers to those pressing questions in this course. 

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS: 

•  Get insights on how owner-occupied properties are appraised 
• Gain an understanding of the special features that bring value to owner-occupied industrial warehouses, restaurants and office buildings 
• Find answers to the top questions that arise when appraising owner-occupied commercial properties

Get up to speed on the latest edition of USPAP with The Appraisal Foundation’s official online course. This course will cover all the revisions in the 2020-2021 version of the National USPAP Update course plus it will help you apply the requirements of USPAP in situations that occur during your day-to-day work.

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS:

• Gain fluency and mastery in USPAP concepts and applications
• Go in-depth on the issues that affect your daily appraisal practice
• Learn through the use of peer-polls, quizzes, course video and downloadable aids

With disciplinary cases against appraisers on the rise, this course will walk you through violations and offer ideas on how to avoid them in your appraisals. 

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS: 

• Walk through violations prosecuted by state appraisal enforcement agencies and their associated sanctions  
• Go in-depth with the applicability of USPAP and examples of significant willful violations and minor errors that affect the credibility of assignment results 
• Review The Appraisal Foundation’s Voluntary Disciplinary Action Matrix and apply it to real-life case studies

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

Get up to speed on the latest edition of USPAP with The Appraisal Foundation’s official online course. This course will cover all the revisions in the 2020-2021 version of the USPAP Update for Non-Residential Real Property course plus it will help you apply the requirements of USPAP in situations that occur during your day-to-day work.

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS:

• Gain fluency and mastery in USPAP concepts and applications
• Go in-depth on the issues that affect your daily appraisal practice
• Learn through the use of peer-polls, quizzes, course video and downloadable aids

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