Promoting Public Trust Part 1: What is USPAP? This is part one of a 12-part blog and podcast series on the appraiser’s professional standards of practice, called USPAP. If you prefer consuming information by listening to a podcast, this topic will be dropping on The Appraisal Cast very soon! Keep a lookout! Let’s [...]
People Get Ready, the Appraiser is Coming! We prepare ourselves for a lot of things. A job interview. A wedding. A night out with our spouse. The birth of a baby. A huge test. But how many homeowners actually take time to prepare for an appraiser coming? You might be surprised to know that I’ve [...]
5 Tips for Getting Your Home Ready to Sell in the Spring Spring is finally here! Well, technically. It felt like winter last week, but hey – birds are chirping and the grass is growing! What better time to start thinking about getting your home ready to sell than the spring? Here are just a [...]
If you’re like most homeowners, you’ve probably wondered about your home’s tax assessment. Is that my market value? Is that number accurate? How did they come up with their numbers? Is that the same as an appraisal? All of these questions are commonly asked, and we’ll look at them in some detail in this blog [...]
Are you about to put your home up for sale? Are you nervous about the home selling process? Although selling a home is a huge deal, pricing it correctly doesn’t have to be. In this blog post, we’ll discuss how a pre-listing appraisal or even a post-listing appraisal can help sellers and Realtors when pricing [...]
Thank you to Joy Kay Raymond! Why You Should Have Your Home Professionally Measured! Remember 100% of the home measurement fees go directly back into the community, specifically, this quarter it goes to Friends of Sinners. Let’s partner together to give back to the community! Helping homeowners navigate the appraisal process, Ryan Bays, SRA, AI-RRS
Five Reasons Why You Should Have Your Home Measured by an Appraiser Few things can cause the sale of a home to fall through faster than a home that has been incorrectly measured, or not measured at all. However, there is an easy solution, and if you’re a seller or Realtor, you can even [...]
It’s finally time for the 2019 Year In Review! It’s taken a bit longer for us to put everything together this year for a couple of reasons. We’re busy. Wow! The market is incredibly hot right now. We’ve been working hard just trying to keep up! We’re doing something different this year, and including [...]
What Can I Count as Living Area? Enclosed Porches, basements, garages, bonus rooms, unfinished rooms. Does your home have any of these areas? Are you confused if you can count them in your home’s living area? In this blog post, we’ll answer the question we’ve heard from countless homeowners: “What can I count as [...]
What Makes a Room a Bedroom? One of the most confusing issues in real estate is bedroom count. Now, it sounds silly, I know, but it’s true! Is this a two or three bedroom home? Can I count that room as a bedroom? What about the rooms in the basement? Are those bedrooms? Don’t [...]
