Thursday, March 28, 2024 | The Latest Buzz for the Appraisal Industry

Customary & Reasonable Fees: The Elephant in the Room

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It’s here! Our second print edition of the Appraisal Buzz magazine is now available. Our goal has always been to provide real estate appraisers with valuable industry information through our free e-Newsletter and now we continue that effort with our free print magazine. We received such a great and positive response from the release of our first print edition last spring; we hope you will find this version every bit as informative and interesting.

In this edition of the magazine we provide a few tidbits on new technology to help you when appraising in the field and some leading financial industry books to help get a summer reading list together. Here is a sneak peak at some of the articles in this spring’s edition.

C & R – Elephant in the Room
The debate over customary and reasonable fees emerged after the proliferation of Appraisal Management Companies in mid-2009. In this article, Ernie Durbin explains how we as an industry can show this “elephant” the door!

Valuation 3.0
Mark Linné explores how to combine your traditional experience with advanced computing and analytics.

Diversify, But Verify
Is your clientele helping or hurting your business? Woody Fincham explains how to make sure you are starting a new business relationship with a good client.

A Conversation with Ed Pinto
The American Enterprise Institute hosted the Fourth Annual International Conference on Housing Risk last fall. In this article, Ed Pinto provides a recap of the conference.

HUD Handbook 4000.1
The pressure is off! Author Bill Waltenbaugh gives a brief run down of the guidelines in the new and improved single source for FHA single-family policy.

Appraising in the Cloud
Our 2016 Valuation Visionary, George Opelka, discusses the changes in the appraisal industry, from the “Green Hornet” form to computer based reporting.

Litigate This
Francois Gregoire explains the top five “to-dos” before accepting assignments as an appraiser expert witness or litigation consulting.

DIY Business
Are you wearing the hat of both the technician and CEO? Dustin Harris notes five steps to correctly build and maintain a flourishing appraisal business.

Valuation Expo 2016
“B’More is way More!” Find out what the host city of the East Coast Valuation Expo event has to offer. Valuation Expo will be held July 11-13th at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront. Many of our contributing authors will be in attendance, this is your chance to meet face to face and provide feedback directly to them. Find your discount code in the magazine and register today at valuationexpo.com.

A special thank you goes out to all of our contributors and authors for the amazing articles and self help guides. We would not be where we are today without them and we appreciate the value they contribute to this industry. We would also like to thank all of our ad sponsors. It is with their help that we are able to provide this source of valuable information free to appraisers.

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