So, what IS in your workfile? Why it is there (or not there, as the case may be)? Tim Andersen, The Appraiser's Advocate, breaks it all down for you in this podcast. Tim makes it clear what MUST be in your workfile, as well as why it must be there! And why must all that important stuff be there? To keep you out of the clutches of your state appraisal board!

YOU know what you mean when you write your appraisal report. But is what you meant clear to the Client? If it's not, and the Client nicks you for it, do you take it as a leaning experience, or bitch about it on social media? Tim Andersen, The Appraisers Advocate, USPAP instructor and guru, and all around convivial guy give you his take on these real estate appraisal and USPAP current issues. Oh, and he quotes Shakespeare, too. WOW! Whoever thought you'd get all of that and Shakespeare, too, in one USPAP-oriented podcast?

Tim discusses what happens after the state appraisal board gets finished with another appraiser. While it is true anther appraiser has bitten the dust, there is life after the appraisal board's judgement. Basically that means, get up, dust yourself off, and get on with life and all its joys!

It's okay to accept data from a broker. The reason is because it is up to the appraiser to analyze the broker's data to determine whether they are truly comparable sales. Appraisers don't take the brokers word for it. Per USPAP, they analyze their own data and come to their own conclusions.

Some say the residential real estate appraisal industry is dead. This is not true! There are too many opportunities out there for appraisers who are willing to take advantage of them. We ain't dead yet!