Minnesota Appraisal Continuing Education & License Renewal

Payment plans starting at $399/year

WHY IT’S FOR YOU

• You are single or multi-licensed; one price gets you all your education for two years (including USPAP).
• You can use a searchable digital library of professional resources anytime you have a question.
• You want access to a support network of other appraisers and instructors.
• Choose how you learn: self-paced online courses, or Pro-Series webinars.
• Maximize your learning with one set price; includes access to additional courses beyond state requirements.

MEMBERSHIP PRIVILEGES

• Two-years of UNLIMITED access to 30+ hours of mandatory and elective courses you can take any time for Minnesota renewal and/or your professional career development
• USPAP update course and PDF book: $224.99 value
• Free access to monthly Pro-Series webinars: $1,726 value
• Become a Certified Luxury Home Appraiser (CLHA (TM)) for free: $650 value
• Exclusive access to a resource library of professional development tools within your dashboard
• A members-only community of appraisers and instructors from around the country
• Exclusive member discounts from select industry partners
• Completion certificates for Minnesota and other licensed states: $100 value per state
• Automatic report of course completions to Minnesota/other states you're licensed in.
• Excellent customer service & support via phone and email, 7 days a week
• 2 payment options - $399 annually or $774 biennially. Two-year commitment required.
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OPTIONS FOR INCLUDED COURSES*

• 2020-2021 7-hour National USPAP Course (7 hrs)
• Appraising Today's Manufactured Homes (7 hrs)
• The FHA Handbook 4000.1 (7 hrs)
• Essential Elements of Disclosures and Disclaimers (5 hrs)
• Evaluations, Desktops, and Other Limited Scope Appraisals (4 hrs)

*Example above illustrates 30+ hours of recommended continuing education courses to get you started. Choose from our extensive library of courses to add these or additional ones, any time.

**This is an auto-renew membership. Two-year minimum commitment is required at the time of initial purchase.  Additional renewal terms are for two-years each.

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

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.

Familiarize yourself with the requirements of the Single Family Housing Policy Handbook, or Handbook 4000.1,  the “go-to” handbook for appraisers and lenders. 

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS: 

• Walk through revisions to FHA appraisal requirements and protocols 
• Get a better grasp of FHA structure 
• Learn how to stay updated on future FHA requirements 
• Pocket useful tips and insights to FHA updates and requirements. 

In today’s lawsuit-saturated world, it is critical for appraisers to understand the use of disclosures and disclaimers. This course will show you how to leverage disclosures and disclaimers in your everyday appraisal practice. 

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS: 

•  Gain confidence in key terminology, requirements and issues associated with disclosures and disclaimers 
• Examine disclosure requirements related to scope of work and assignment conditions 
• Uncover issues with disclosures and disclaimers when appraising environmentally-affected properties, certain property conditions and other special situations

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 

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

Gain a greater understanding of the lending and foreclosure processes leading to properties becoming real estate owned (REO), and the roles and responsibilities of valuation professionals in this process. 

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS: 

• Explore the development of the traditional approaches for residential appraisals, with emphasis on the challenges associated with REO and foreclosure properties 
• Examine an appropriate scope of work for an REO appraisal
• Gain insights on the concepts of cost to repair and cost to cure, along with data sources to support cost estimates

Gain confidence in your relocation appraisals by going in-depth on the relocation industry and the processes involved in completing a relocation appraisal assignment. 

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS:

• Identify differences between relocation appraisals and mortgage appraisals 
• Explain the relationship of marketing time and forecasting to anticipated sales price 
• Identify requirements related to the sales comparison approach for relocation appraisal assignments

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.