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> The Appraiser Coach > AMC Guide > OREP E&O ★★★★★“They are knowledgeable, professional, and understand urgency.” – Joe Thweatt Becoming an Appraiser: Courage to Grow Beyond Training by Timothy Andersen, The Appraiser’s Advocate AbstractCompleting appraisal training marks not an end but merely a beginning. This essay argues that professional maturity emerges through judgment under uncertainty, not credentials alone.…
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> The Appraiser Coach > Appraisal Institute > OREP E&O ★★★★★”They are knowledgeable, professional, and understand urgency.” – Joe Thweatt An Abridged History of the Appraiser Profession by Kendra Budd, Editor For most of the 20th century, there was nothing stopping anyone from calling themselves an appraiser. Licensing didn’t come about until the early 1990s as a result of…
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> The Appraiser Coach > AMC Guide > OREP E&O ★★★★★”They are knowledgeable, professional, and understand urgency.” – Joe Thweatt Am I Being Paranoid, or Is There Another Reason? by Richard Hagar, SRA Think about all the information local appraisers have assembled that state and federal governments don’t have but would like to have. 98 percent of the required…
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> The Appraiser Coach > AMC Guide > OREP E&O ★★★★★”They are knowledgeable, professional, and understand urgency.” – Joe Thweatt Florida Class Action: What’s It Mean for Appraisers? by Isaac Peck, Publisher For the second time in just over a year, a class action lawsuit is challenging how appraisal management companies (AMCs) handle the fees borrowers pay for appraisals.…
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> The Appraiser Coach > AMC Guide > OREP E&O ★★★★★ “They are knowledgeable, professional, and understand urgency.” – Joe Thweatt 2026 Appraiser Survey: State of the Profession by Isaac Peck, Publisher Nearly one-third of all practicing appraisers plan to leave the profession within three years. Add the next cohort and roughly half intend to exit within the next…
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> The Appraiser Coach> Appraisal Institute> OREP E&O★★★★★ “They are knowledgeable, professional, and understand urgency.”– Joe Thweatt Include E&O in Appraisal Reports? Just Say No by Isaac Peck, Publisher Plenty of appraisal management companies still require appraisers to attach an E&O declarations page (dec page) to every report. The practice persists because it’s convenient for the AMC, not because…
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> The Appraiser Coach > Appraisal Institute> OREP E&O★★★★★”They are knowledgeable, professional, and understand urgency.” – Joe Thweatt When Appraisers Take the Stand by David C. Wilkes, Esq., CRE, FRICS and Kevin M. Clyne, Esq., CRE Real estate appraisers have long played an essential role in litigation involving property valuation. Courts frequently rely on experienced valuation professionals to provide…
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> The Appraiser Coach > Appraisal Institute > OREP E&O ★★★★★ “They are knowledgeable, professional, and understand urgency.” – Joe Thweatt HB 355 and What Every Appraiser Should Learn from Kentucky’s Legislative Win by Bryan S. Reynolds, MNAA Kentucky’s recent passage of House Bill 355 is more than a state legislative victory—it is a case study in what can…
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> The Appraiser Coach> AMC Resource Guide > OREP E&O ★★★★★ “They are knowledgeable,professional, and understand urgency.”– Joe Thweatt Under Pressure: What’s Driving the Appraiser Exodus and How to Fix It by David Massey Ask any veteran appraiser or physician what has changed most over the past twenty years, and the answer is usually the…
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> The Appraiser Coach > AMC Resource Guide > OREP E&O ★★★★★ “They are knowledgeable, professional, and understand urgency.” – Joe Thweatt Cyber Insurance: Why It’s Time for Appraisers to Protect Themselves by Isaac Peck, Senior Broker at OREP.org You log in, expecting to send a report or check your schedule for the coming week, only…
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