Benefits

Appraisal coaching gives you the support you need to be the best appraiser you can be.  From answering a single nagging question to ongoing support and training, Appraisal Coach® is your guide and Mentor.  It helps you reinforce your existing knowledge, broaden your abilities, gain confidence and integrate your goals and unique attributes to become a more accomplished respected and successful professional. 

You will learn:

Professional Practice Management

• Effectively manage and schedule appointments around your schedule
• Manage your time, create a routine that maximizes output
• Reduce or eliminate multiple visits
• Develop effective communication strategies with clients
• Reduce the amount of time you spend “keeping them informed”
• Understand and learn the difference between good clients” and” bad clients”
• Recognize when to reject an assignment
• Create your own time management rules
• Learn how do deal with client requests for additional support and follow-up
• Identify your current strengths, weaknesses, goals and objectives
• Recognize your professional image and understand its implications to your success
• Build an actual business plan yourself
• Create financial goals and achieve them

Property Inspections

• Learn how to conduct a proper onsite inspection
• Learn how to recognize key structural, architectural, mechanical and cosmetic components
• Understand obsolescence, depreciation, deferred maintenance
• Learn what to ask and what NOT to ask a homeowner
• Learn how do deal with homeowners that ask for "on-the-spot" values
• Learn simple and effective sketching techniques – create layouts with confidence
• Learn straightforward proper measurement techniques -produce consistently accurate results
• Learn to identify the key components mostly likely to influence value

Data Collection

• Secrets, tips and trick for effective data collection – Get the info you need
• Learn how to obtain information that is not typically available in the public record
• Learn how to reconcile conflicting facts from multiple sources, understand the hierarchy of reliability of various sources
• Find the " hard to find" data
• Develop effective and efficient data collection habits
• Learn why good appraisers gather much more info than that which appears in reports
• Reduce the amount of time you spend collection data

Comparable Analysis

• Identify what makes a good comp and why
• Recognize why sometimes the best indicators of value will not appear in your report
• Understand why it is important to determine what a property is not worth in the process of estimating it's value
• Know what to do when "there are no comps"”
• Learn to select comps for unique properties
• Debunking appraisal myths
• What to do with "guest kitchens", In-law apartments" and more
• Understand why it isn't the comps you use but the comps you don't use that are the mark of an accomplished appraiser

Appraisal Principals

• Highest & Best Use – What is it really and how does it affect you
• Leased Fee vs. Fee Simple, Understand why so many appraisers, even MAI's get this wrong
• Property rights, learn to recognize what it is you are actually valuing
• Understand the difference between value and price
• Learn to apply appropriate valuation techniques

The Grab Bag - Myths, bugaboos, tips, & tricks

• Learn how to treat guest apartments & second kitchens
• Above grade vs. below grade space, raised ranches, tri-levels and
• Illegal uses, zoning, assessors - who do you believe ?
• Learn the differences between Appraising and FNMA Appraising
• AS IS vs. SUBJECT TO

Report Writing

• Effectively manage your report and photo databases
• Boilerplate, text cutting and pasting, forms merging - the plusses and minuses
• Create effective, descriptive, concise descriptions
• Learn to minimize typographical and careless errors
• Create reports that impress your clients
• Develop a strong appraisal vocabulary”

Marketing and Growth

• Learn how to grow your business beyond just appraising for Lenders.  There is a whole world out there in need of your services.  Appraisals for probate, divorce, death, tax planning, litigation support, tax assessment appeals.  Appraisers who work in this arena are generally regarded as among the more knowledgeable in the profession. 
• Recognize the types of clients that will compensate you according to your experience
• How to develop a client base of higher paying clients
• Learn how to separate yourself from your competition
• Learn how to become a highly effective EXPERT WITNESS
• Understand how you can be an advocate yet retain impartiality
• Consulting vs. appraising

There is a world of opportunity out there for professional appraisers.  Now more than ever it is imperative that you posses the skills and experience to differentiate yourself from the competition.  Do you have what it takes? 

Make the choice to now to accelerate your learning curve, move to the head of the pack, and give yourself a head start.  Book a consultation today!