Wyoming Appraisal Continuing Education & License Renewal

 WHY IT’S FOR YOU 

• You are licensed in a single state or multiple states and need to renew your license
• You want to take more than the required education hours
• You want the option to take courses in multiple formats at the package savings
• You want access to professional development tools, discounts and MORE

WHAT’S INCLUDED 
Includes All Available Mandatory and Elective Courses Required for Renewal (fulfills requirement)
Customer Phone and Email Support 7 Days a Week
Education Reported to the State Where Required
Completion Certificates in Every State you are Licensed
Monthly Pro-Series Webinars - an annual $863 value
Appraisal Professional Development Content Library
Online Appraisal Community
Industry Partner Discounts,
2 Years UNLIMITED Access
2 Payment Options 

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

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.

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

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

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 

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.