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Commercial appraisal review assignments flow from different types of clients, each with their own intended use, required scope of work, and set of concerns for the reviewer to be aware of. This post is designed to provide practical advice for working with four specific…
Real estate risk management is an important concern for agents. Real estate agents are commonly sued for breaching their duty to act in the best interests of their client. To protect your clients’ interests, and reduce your own risk exposure, check out our highly-rated…
For appraisers, time is money. If you can complete more reports per year, you can increase your earnings substantially. As an appraiser, you are paid for your local market analysis and expertise, not your typing and data entry skills. An appraisal assistant can help…
Real estate advertising ethics is a big problem in other countries with non-regulated real estate industries. Not so in the U.S. However, even in the well-regulated U.S. industry, real estate advertising ethics rules can be confusing. This post outlines several resources and tips that…
What ethical considerations are involved in working with FSBOs? FSBO ethics are not included in the National Associaton of REALTORs® (NAR) Code of Ethics. However, NAR’s Field Guide to Working with FSBOs contains numerous links to help members work with FSBOs. In addition, there…
Dual agency is a controversial topic with some real estate professionals, and even among brokers. Single agency requires loyalty, preserving the client’s confidential information, and working in the best interests of the client. Dual agents, representing the buyer and the seller, find it difficult…
New conversations are starting about the occasionally fractious relationship between appraisers and selling agents. The complaint that some real estate agents are guilty of appraiser blacklisting (refusing to allow certain appraisers to appraise their listings) isn’t a new one. But it seems to have…
If you’re a real estate agent who caters to investor clients, you absolutely want to know the basics of executing a 1031 exchange. For one, if your clients go that route, they stand to save—and make—a good bit of money. If you are the…
It goes without saying that there’s no simple, easy way to deal with appraisal pressure. A major source of frustration for appraisers is the realization that clients do not have to follow USPAP. The ethical and performance requirements of USPAP apply only to appraisers,…
Appraisal-related adjustments are not just guesses by the appraiser or “rules of thumb.” Nor are they calculated numbers used to mathematically force a preconceived adjusted market value estimate in support of a value conclusion for the subject property. We tend to think of appraisal-related…
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