Tennessee Appraisal Continuing Education & License Renewal

• All required hours
• 12 month access length*
• Online classes
• Live classes
• Live CE webinars
• Includes 100+ courses
• Additional state completion certificates included
• Pro-Series webinars
• Content library
• Appraisal community
• Partner discounts

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

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

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

Based on Advisory Opinion 11 of USPAP, the Dirty Dozen covers the twelve elements that must be included in an Appraisal Report and a Restricted Appraisal Report. 
 
COURSE HIGHLIGHTS 

• Learn detailed information on the appraisal process and the various elements of the two USPAP reporting options 
• Uncover the distinctions between appraising and reporting
• Gain insights on reporting forms

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

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 2018-2019 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

The 7-Hour National Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP) Update Course, as developed by The Appraisal Foundation, focuses on changes to USPAP for 2018-19 and on appraisal issues that affect daily appraisal practice. It is unique in that the Course is developed by The Appraisal Foundation and is revised on a periodic basis to stay current with the latest edition of USPAP. In this course, The Appraisal Foundation intends to:

• Present and explain the new revisions to USPAP adopted in 2017 and effective from January 1, 2018 through December 31, 2019
• Present the current changes to USPAP in a variety of scenarios
• Present scenarios that challenge participants to interpret and apply USPAP to situations they encounter in their daily practice

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