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HVCC Survey Results: Appraisers Still Feel Pressure

Appraisers Talk, FHA Listens

Decreasing Time and Liability during the FHA Loan Process

AMC Regulation: Good for What Ails You

Eight Most Common Appraisal Mistakes

Using Blogs to Grow your Business

Diary of a Happy (AMC) Appraiser

Shining Light on Energy Auditing

Closer Look for Home Inspectors
Selling your Services
Rodents and Fire

Industry News

Professional Marketplace
 

FHA, Fannie/Freddie Tell it Like it Is

2010 Appraiser Survival Kit - FHA Inspection Course, Checklist and eManual
 


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Three Real Estate Professionals Win $23,000 Each from a la mode

After the Boom: Surviving and Thriving (in any Market)

Alphabet Soup (How many designations can you name?)

Analyzing the Market: Thinking Outside the Check Box

Anatomy of a Scam

Appraisal Industry Think Tank: Half Full?

Appraiser off the Hook

Appraiser Sues over Blacklisting

Appraiser's Inside Report: Mortgage Broker's File Suit to Stop HVCC

Appraisers: Expert or Commodity?

Appraising 2008: What's Bad is Good

Appraising in a Changing Market: Multi-Tiered Market Data Approach

Appraising Small Businesses

Are AVMs Appraisals?

Blacklisting Lawsuit, USPAP Q&A, FHA Update

Being Safe Around Mold

Blueprint for Success: Experience, Education, Ethics, Effort

Call for AMC Regulation

Cherishing your Clients

Collapse of Credible Valuation

Collateral Replacement Cost Risk: What Every Lender and Investor Needs to Know

Copyright Appraiser Takes on AVMs

Cost Approach:
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A Different View: Perpetuating the Myths

 - How the Cost Approach Shines the Light on a Troubled Market

 - Greater Need for Replacement Cost Analyses

 - Why Sidestepping It Can Be Costly

eAppraiseIT, WAMU Blow up, Fannie, Freddie

Eminent Domain after Kelo: Battle Continues

Employee or Contractor? You Don't Make the Call - IRS Does

Everything you Don't Know about Measuring - Part Two

Expert Testimony and Appraisal Reports - Is Change Good?

Fair Market Value Management LLC Protecting your Intellectual Property Rights

FHA: Hope for Homeowners Means Hope for Appraisers

FHA Seamless Renewal Process

Finding and Landing Better Clients: Market Positioning

Finding Foreclosure Work

Finding your Niche: Machinery and Equipment Appraising

FNC - Appraiser Firestorm Again

Fraud Postcard

Good Business: Engagement Agreements

Growing as an Expert Witness

Home Inspectors Liability: Solutions Outside the Courtroom

How Lenders Think: Do I Need an Appraiser?

How to Access FHA Information

How to Raise your Fee

How to Ruin your Business without even Trying

HUD Approval Process Simplified

HVCC: Taking Back Control of your Fees

HVCC Looms: AMC Legislation Passes in Three States

Industry Snapshot - Plus Fannie's New Form, Feds Comment on AVMs

IndyMac - What Goes Around Comes Around

Inspectors: Inspecting is Easy - Writing is Hard!

IRS vs Appraisers

Loss Prevention Checklist

Legislation Follow up

MARI Update - Latest Report of MARI Fraud Stats

"Mark to Market" Accounting and the Credit Crunch

Marketing for Tough Times

Marketing Smart

Mind your Business (and Survive)

Mortgage Broker Information for your State

Mortgage Lending Transaction Data from 8,886 Financial Institutions & Data on Private Mortgage Insurance

Moving to Appraisal Consulting Part 2: Getting Started

Moving with the Market: Watch Those Concessions!

New National Housing Act - What Appraisers Need to Know

New Niche: Appraising Reverse Mortgages

New Qualifications/USPAP Explained

New Sites

Pre-listing Payoff

Predatory Lending Report

Privacy Laws for your Real Estate Practice

Proximity-Value Surveys: Valuing Cell Sites

Reaction and Remedies: Fannie/Freddie, Cuomo Agreement

Reflections of a Life-Long Appraisers

Relocation Appraising: What Goes Around Comes Around

Relocation Work: Understanding Anticipated Sales Price, Forecasting

Report and Analysis: Fannie/Freddie, Cuomo Agree to Appraiser Independence

Responding to the New Market: When the Underwriter Calls (Again)

Rise and Fall of Real Estate Values: Who Controls the Ride?

Rising Prices in a Declining Market?

Risk Management: Loss Prevention Checklist

Sales Concessions: Read One(s) "for the Books!"

Save Money with your Favorite Office Suppliers

Scope of Work Q&A: Risks of Changing Intended User Statements

Security, Fraud and Liability

Sincerity vs. Competency

State of the Industry

Study Sheds Light on Life Expectancy of Home Components

Supply-Demand Balance: How do you Measure a Balanced Market?

Taking Care of Your Business

Task Force on Blacklisting

Teaching Your Clients Well

Two Leading Appraisal Industry Software Developers Announce Partnership

Using ANSI Standards: Reducing Liability

USPAP Q&A: Clarifying Competency, Reviews, Past Sales & More

Why Appraisers get in Trouble

When the Worst Happens: Responding to Fraud

Will Appraiser Bond Requirement Put you out of Business?

WRE Online Keep Current, Save Money

Your Money AND Your Life: How to Save Both

Zaio Compliance With USPAP