Minnesota Appraisal Continuing Education & License Renewal

Prices starting at $399

 WHY IT’S FOR YOU 

• You are licensed in Minnesota and/or multiple states and need to renew your license/receive additional credit for multiple states
• 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 Minnesota 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 Minnesota as Required
• Completion Certificates in Minnesota and in Every State Licensed - Multi-State Credit - $120 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 - $399 Annually or $774 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

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

Discover the common elements between divorce and estate appraisals and how these types of appraisals are different from standard mortgage lending appraisals. 

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS: 

• Learn how to diversify your appraisal business to include divorce and estate appraisals 
• Review form differences, USPAP issues, and assignment conditions 
• Discover how to attract non-lender clients and grow your divorce and estate appraisal portfolio
• Audio and video included in course

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 

Diversify your appraisal skills with an introduction to expert witness testimony.

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS:
•Learn the difference between a factual and expert witness and the rules that apply to both
•Understand the facts you may be asked to present in divorce cases, bankruptcy cases, foreclosure cases, and Ad Valorem assessment appeals and estate appraisals
•Get comfortable with how deposition and courtroom proceedings work

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

Grow your knowledge of the assisted living market and explore the factors that influence supply and demand. Designed specifically for commercial appraisers. 

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS: 

• Address how adjustments are unique to assisted living or adapted to assisted living using the Sales Comparison Approach 
• Familiarize yourself with the estimation of income, expenses, and capital expenditures specific to assisted living facilities using the Income Approach 
• Learn how to apply the Income Approach to both stabilized and un-stabilized assisted living facilities

Improve your understanding of the income approach by exploring several case studies that focus on existing improved commercial real estate. 

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS: 

• Review terminology and application of the income approach
• Practice using the capitalization process to convert the net operating income into an estimate of market value

This course is intended to provide the participant with enhanced skills as it relates to the application of direct capitalization and yield capitalization. Also covered in this course are the development of reliable effective gross income estimates, vacancy and collection loss, analysis of operating expenses, and calculating net operating income. 

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS: 

• Apply the direct capitalization process using the derivation of comparable sales method, and the band of investment method using mortgage and equity technique. 
• Use market-extracted data to complete a direct capitalization process case study to develop an opinion of value. 
• Apply the methodology of yield capitalization and its application to changing income streams for income producing properties.

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

Produce a more credible indication of value by gaining a thorough working knowledge of the cost approach.

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS:

• Equip yourself with the terminology and procedures associated with cost approach 
• Gain a better understanding of the sales comparison method of site valuation and the common types of adjustments that illustrate this methodology 
• Learn alternative modes of site valuation and basic kinds of depreciation

Equip yourself with the tools and insights needed to manage your liability as an appraiser. 

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS: 

• Examine practical ways you can protect yourself in your everyday practice 
• Learn common appraisal malpractice issues and investigate available remedies 
• Boost your knowledge of legal definitions, categories of penalties, third-party liability, competency, environmental issues, fraud and more

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

Grow your knowledge of the assisted living market and explore the factors that influence supply and demand. Designed specifically for commercial appraisers. 

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS: 

• Address how adjustments are unique to assisted living or adapted to assisted living using the Sales Comparison Approach 
• Familiarize yourself with the estimation of income, expenses, and capital expenditures specific to assisted living facilities using the Income Approach 
• Learn how to apply the Income Approach to both stabilized and un-stabilized assisted living facilities

Improve your understanding of the income approach by exploring several case studies that focus on existing improved commercial real estate. 

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS: 

• Review terminology and application of the income approach
• Practice using the capitalization process to convert the net operating income into an estimate of market value

This course is intended to provide the participant with enhanced skills as it relates to the application of direct capitalization and yield capitalization. Also covered in this course are the development of reliable effective gross income estimates, vacancy and collection loss, analysis of operating expenses, and calculating net operating income. 

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS: 

• Apply the direct capitalization process using the derivation of comparable sales method, and the band of investment method using mortgage and equity technique. 
• Use market-extracted data to complete a direct capitalization process case study to develop an opinion of value. 
• Apply the methodology of yield capitalization and its application to changing income streams for income producing properties.