CalypsoEdu Food for Thought: No Comps… No Problem… Appraising Energy-Efficient Homes Major stumbling block in the proliferation of energy-efficient homes in America is not the additional cost associated with construction or improvements, but the Realty world trifecta, which is composed of three disparate, but intrinsically linked professions: The lack of qualified real estate sales professionals [...]
AQBs proposal in the March 15, 2017 Third Exposure Draft of Proposed Changes to the Real Property Appraiser Qualification Criteria suggests allowing trainees to gain their field experience hours by attending classes designed to simulate that experience. For the last two years, the Appraiser Qualifications Board (AQB) has been examining potential areas of change to [...]
AQBs proposal in the March 15, 2017 Third Exposure Draft of Proposed Changes to the Real Property Appraiser Qualification Criteria clears the way for licensed appraisers to achieve certified residential status without a bachelor’s degree. For the last two years, the Appraiser Qualifications Board (AQB) has been examining potential areas of change to the Real [...]
FHA, Meth Labs, and Due Diligence By: Francis X. (Rich) Finigan The epidemic of clandestine drug labs in America goes straight to the heart of FHA’s three S’s: Safety, Security, and Soundness. Environmental hazards or other conditions affecting the health and safety of occupants, collateral security or structural soundness of the dwelling must be identified [...]
Closets and USPAP standards, how are they alike? The Appraisal Standards Board (ASB) is treating retired USPAP STANDARDS 4 and 5 like empty closets….. they just had to fill them! The new STANDARD 4 is titled Appraisal Review, Reporting. STANDARD 5 is now titled Mass Appraisal, Development. This ‘Food for Thought’ is going to discuss [...]
Appraising Energy Efficient Home with Few Comps??? Appraising energy-efficient homes when there are so few comps and the properties are loaded with solar panels, tank-less water heaters, low E windows, geothermal heat pumps; it’s like lions and tigers and bears, oh my! Both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac require that an appraiser obtain competency to [...]
Assumptions now missing from USPAP; was it the leprechauns? If only we could blame the leprechauns for stealing the definition of ASSUMPTION from USPAP. And, maybe if it was the leprechauns, they would’ve left us a pot of gold, but no, it was the ASB. USPAP 2018-2019 no longer contains a definition for an “ASSUMPTION” [...]
The definition for ASSIGNMENT CONDITION will not exist until the 2018 – 2019 USPAP publication goes into effect, but where have we seen this term? Previously it was referenced in the SCOPE OF WORK RULE. Are you ready for some tongue-in-cheek? You think the ASB needed to fill the void left behind in the USPAP [...]
Enhanced Property Inspection Waiver (PIW), Fannie Mae What could possibly go wrong!? Wasn’t it less than a decade ago that our tax dollars provided $189 billion to Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae because their poor financial condition rendered them unable to fulfill their mission without our tax dollars via government intervention? No inspection on many [...]
Should you be responsible for confidential information after you have left a firm or organization and no longer have control of the appraisal work file? The Appraisal Standards Board (ASB) Third Exposure Draft public hearing was held in Washington DC on 17 October 2014. The meeting was well attended by state regulators who expressed their [...]