Blog Category: local appraisers

January 13th, 2017 Houses Neighborhood Landscape
January 13th, 2017

Appraisers Need To Live In The Neighborhood?

I told a realtor once that appraisers do not appraise a home, data does. I was trying to respond to their over-hyped level of concern about where the appraiser lives or works. Realtors’ hope that the appraiser will have some sort of intimate knowledge about the subject property’s market area, only by living nearby. Read More

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May 10th, 2013 hamburger
May 10th, 2013

Would You Get Surgery At McDonald’s?

It never ceases to amaze me how people treat the most expensive transaction that they will ever do in life as a commodity. Would you get surgery at McDonald’s if they got into the health care business because it was the cheapest place to get it? Or would you talk to numerous different doctors based on experience, referrals, track record, and interaction with their staff and systems? Read More

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