Puerto Rico Appraisal Continuing Education & License Renewal
Whether you’re just getting started or are a seasoned appraiser, McKissock has you covered with high-quality Puerto Rico appraisal continuing education and Puerto Rico license renewal courses, industry expertise and convenience. Our convenient online appraisal classes are written by top-quality instructors to reflect the most recent appraisal practices in Puerto Rico. Trust McKissock as thousands of appraisers in cities across Puerto Rico choose us for their appraisal continuing education.
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Puerto Rico Appraisal Courses
2022-2023 7-hour National USPAP Update Course
2022-2023 7-hour National USPAP Update Course
This is the 7-Hour National Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP) Update Course, as developed by The Appraisal Foundation (Foundation). The course focuses on how to use the USPAP publication to help solve appraisal issues that affect daily appraisal practice.
Appraisal of Fast Food Facilities
Appraisal of Fast Food Facilities
COURSE HIGHLIGHTS:
- Review leased fee valuation, the sales comparison and income approach, and the discounted cash flow analysis in relation to fast food restaurants
- Examine the physical characteristics to the lease clauses influencing value of these properties
- Learn about fee simple value analysis and going concern value analysis for fast food restaurants
Appraisal of Industrial and Flex Buildings
Appraisal of Industrial and Flex Buildings
This course examines, reviews, and explains the important aspects of appraising single and multi-tenant income producing industrial/manufacturing/warehouse/storage/distribution buildings (herein after “industrial buildings”) and multi-tenant flex style office/industrial buildings (herein after “flex style buildings”).
This online course also contains visual content and links to web sites you can contact for additional information on different components.
This is a self-paced online course. You may complete it when and where you choose. You may complete it in all one sitting, if you wish, or you can complete it in bits and pieces at your convenience. There will be quizzes along the way that you must complete in order to advance to the next section. At the end of the course, there will be a comprehensive online final examination.
Aftercompleting this course, students will be able to:
• Differentiate between industrial and flex buildings
• Identify the information an appraiser needs to obtain to be able to best analyze and appraise an industrial or flex style building
• Develop a detailed expense analysis of an income-producing industrial building or multi-tenant flex style building
• Convert an estimate(s) of annual net operating income (NOI) into an estimate of value
Appraisal of Self-Storage Facilities
Appraisal of Self-Storage Facilities
COURSE HIGHLIGHTS:
- Get up-to-speed on the fundamentals of self-storage facility appraisal
- Examine the demand drivers for the self-storage industry and how to recognize the key elements of facility design
- Learn the difference between physical occupancy and economic occupancy and the impact of rental discounts
- Gain insights on the revenue sources and expense line items for self-storage facilities
Commercial Land Valuation
Commercial Land Valuation
Complex Properties: The Odd Side of Appraisal
Complex Properties: The Odd Side of Appraisal
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
Divorce and Estate Appraisals: Elements of Non-Lender Work
Divorce and Estate Appraisals: Elements of Non-Lender Work
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
Evaluating Today's Residential Appraisal: Reliable Review
Evaluating Today's Residential Appraisal: Reliable Review
Income Approach Case Studies for Commercial Appraisal
Income Approach Case Studies for Commercial Appraisal
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
Intermediate Income Approach Case Studies for Commercial Appraisers
Intermediate Income Approach Case Studies for Commercial Appraisers
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.
Introduction to Commercial Appraisal Review
Introduction to Commercial Appraisal Review
In this introductory commercial appraisal review course, a systematic appraisal review strategy that follows the appraisal process itself is presented. This course examines the relevant Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP) requirements and introduces tools, suggestions, and tips for reviewing commercial appraisals. Several illustrations, exercises, and case studies are shared to reinforce learning.
Introduction to Expert Witness Testimony for Appraisers: To Do or Not to Do
Introduction to Expert Witness Testimony for Appraisers: To Do or Not to Do
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
Introduction to the Uniform Appraisal Dataset
Introduction to the Uniform Appraisal Dataset
COURSE HIGHLIGHTS:
- Explore why UMDP was created, and the benefits for appraisers
- Get comfortable with key terminology and acronyms associated with UMDP
- Get insights on key information about UAD, including types of loans that require UAD compliance, report form types included, and USPAP obligations
- Examine specific requirements of UAD
Land and Site Valuation
Land and Site Valuation
COURSE HIGHLIGHTS:
- Gain an understanding on how to compute the area of simple lots and calculate adjustments based on paired data analysis
- Discover the physical, governmental, legal, economic, and social forces that impact valuation of land and site
- Learn how to calculate site value using Extraction Method, Allocation Method, Subdivision Development Method, Land Residual Method, and Ground Rent Capitalization Method
New Construction Essentials: Luxury Homes
New Construction Essentials: Luxury Homes
• 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.
Relocation Appraisal and the ERC Form
Relocation Appraisal and the ERC Form
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
Residential Appraisal Review and USPAP Compliance
Residential Appraisal Review and USPAP Compliance
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
Residential Construction and the Appraiser
Residential Construction and the Appraiser
• Relate basics of property inspection for appraisers
• Identify and summarize various roofing framing systems, types, and coverings
• Recognize trends in new home construction
Residential Property Inspection for Appraisers
Residential Property Inspection for Appraisers
COURSE HIGHLIGHTS:
- Explore site and exterior of improvements
- Gain tips on interior inspection
- Improve your measuring skills
- Get insights on how to report the inspection
- Audio and video included in course
Residential Report Writing: More Than Forms
Residential Report Writing: More Than Forms
COURSE HIGHLIGHTS:
- Learn how to distinguish appraising from reporting
- Review USPAP minimum standards for written report content
- Gain insights into reporting form options for manufactured homes, small income properties, cooperatives, and condos
- Learn the basics of narrative reports
Supporting Your Adjustments: Methods for Residential Appraisers
Supporting Your Adjustments: Methods for Residential Appraisers
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
That's a Violation
That's a Violation
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
The Basics of Expert Witness for Commercial Appraisers
The Basics of Expert Witness for Commercial Appraisers
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
The Cost Approach
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
The FHA Handbook 4000.1
The FHA Handbook 4000.1
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.
The Fundamentals of Appraising Luxury Homes
The Fundamentals of Appraising Luxury Homes
- Tips on how to find, research, and verify sales outside the local MLS.
- Guidance on utilizing the cost approach to support adjustments in the sales comparison approach.
- Illustrations of overimprovement(s) and how to evaluate the impact on property value.
- Guidance on alternative methods and logic to use when choosing comparable properties for distinctive custom homes.
The Income Approach: An Overview
The Income Approach: An Overview
COURSE HIGHLIGHTS:
- Learn economic principles and definitions pertinent to the valuation of income-producing properties
- Identify how to utilize income capitalization techniques, including direct capitalization and income multipliers
- Practice examples using the HP 12C financial calculator
- Gain insights through income and expense operating statement illustrations
The Sales Comparison Approach
The Sales Comparison Approach
COURSE HIGHLIGHTS:
- Uncover key components of the sales comparison approach with through course examples, case studies and practice problems
- Examine the cost approach for residential properties and income-producing properties
Understanding Luxury Home Features
Understanding Luxury Home Features
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
• Discuss how quality and distinctive features are essential for a home to be classified as a luxury home.
• Recognize various interior and exterior components and materials that effect a luxury home’s aesthetic appeal, design complexity, and longevity.
• Express the intrinsic appeal, quality, and benefits of several outdoor features and improvements found in many luxury homes.
• Recognize several of the current popular trends in technology, specialty rooms, and specialty features of luxury homes.
Uniform Appraisal Standards for Federal Land Acquisitions (Yellow Book) Course
Uniform Appraisal Standards for Federal Land Acquisitions (Yellow Book) Course
The course relies heavily on the source document itself for its content with many case problems interspersed throughout the material to provide practical applications of the points discussed. Both the Yellow Book and this course are written for clarity and readability and should serve as useful and understandable guidance for appraisers, attorneys, and the public.
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
• Describe the relationship between market value and just compensation and the necessity for fairness and justice for the property owner and the public;
• Apply the appraisal development process to appraisal assignments for federal acquisitions;
• Summarize the reporting requirements for appraisal and appraisal review assignments prepared for federal acquisitions; and,
• Relate the legal foundation and guidance that govern valuation problems and appraisal issues for federal acquisitions.
Valuation of Residential Solar
Valuation of Residential Solar
Live Webinar Freddie Mac Update 1Q2023 (Non-Credit)
Live Webinar Freddie Mac Update 1Q2023 (Non-Credit)
- Scott Reuter
- Scott Reuter
Live Webinar Virtual Inspections with RemoteVal (Non-Credit)
Live Webinar Virtual Inspections with RemoteVal (Non-Credit)
- Mark Walser
- Mark Walser
Live Webinar: REO Appraisal: Guidelines and Best Practices
Live Webinar: REO Appraisal: Guidelines and Best Practices
- Diana Jacob
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
- Diana Jacob
Live Webinar: Focus on FHA Minimum Property Requirements
Live Webinar: Focus on FHA Minimum Property Requirements
- Diana Jacob
- Diana Jacob
Live Webinar: Appraising Small Apartment Properties
Live Webinar: Appraising Small Apartment Properties
- Robert Frazier
- Robert Frazier
Live Webinar: REO Appraisal: Guidelines and Best Practices
Live Webinar: REO Appraisal: Guidelines and Best Practices
- Diana Jacob
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
- Diana Jacob
Live Webinar: Focus on FHA Minimum Property Requirements
Live Webinar: Focus on FHA Minimum Property Requirements
- Robert Frazier
- Robert Frazier
Live Webinar: REO Appraisal: Guidelines and Best Practices
Live Webinar: REO Appraisal: Guidelines and Best Practices
- Alex Gilbert
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
- Alex Gilbert
Live Webinar: Focus on FHA Minimum Property Requirements
Live Webinar: Focus on FHA Minimum Property Requirements
- Diana Jacob
- Diana Jacob
Live Webinar: REO Appraisal: Guidelines and Best Practices
Live Webinar: REO Appraisal: Guidelines and Best Practices
- Diana Jacob
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
- Diana Jacob
Live Webinar: Appraising Small Apartment Properties
Live Webinar: Appraising Small Apartment Properties
- Robert Frazier
- Robert Frazier
Live Webinar: Focus on FHA Minimum Property Requirements
Live Webinar: Focus on FHA Minimum Property Requirements
- Robert Frazier
- Robert Frazier
Live Webinar: Focus on FHA Minimum Property Requirements
Live Webinar: Focus on FHA Minimum Property Requirements
- Diana Jacob
- Diana Jacob
Live Webinar: REO Appraisal: Guidelines and Best Practices
Live Webinar: REO Appraisal: Guidelines and Best Practices
- Rob McClelland
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
- Rob McClelland
Live Webinar: Focus on FHA Minimum Property Requirements
Live Webinar: Focus on FHA Minimum Property Requirements
- Robert Frazier
- Robert Frazier
Live Webinar: REO Appraisal: Guidelines and Best Practices
Live Webinar: REO Appraisal: Guidelines and Best Practices
- Alex Gilbert
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
- Alex Gilbert