Real Estate Appraising From A to Z

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Summary: Loaded with expert recommendations.
Review: This book is filled with expert recommendations that truly helped my wife and I when we sold our house. There's a ton of information I learned in this book that I was unaware of before reading it. The result - we really increased our profit when we sold the house.

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Summary: Excellent book to learn from a pro and price your house.
Review: This is a fantastic book to learn how to decide what the price and market value is for you house or condominium or rental property. There was a ton of great and helpful advice that was excellent and easy to read and learn from. Many appraiser books are too technical and written only for professional appraisers but this book is written in a way that anyone can benefit from. When I wanted to sell my house I knew that I should not rely on what a real estate broker tells me since they just want to earn a commission. So I decided to read up on how to decide what price to sell my house and was able to do that properly with what I learned in this book. Great book for anyone interested in real estate. Highly recommended if you want to maximize your real estate profits and have a top appraiser walk you through the process every step of the way.

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Summary: I liked this book a lot. Very informative with good guidance
Review: This was my choice for the book to teach me about real estate appraisals. Before my husband and I did a very expensive renovation and remodeling of our home, we wanted to find out what the sales price of the house could be if the work was done. Since we are not appraisers we wanted to learn what a real estate appraiser does and looks for to decide on what a house is worth in the market. This book told us everything that we wanted to know and a lot more. You do not have to be someone with years of experience to be able to understand how to appraise real estate with this book. We learned so much helpful advice and techniques that my husband and I realized the home remodeling and improvements we were planning to spend a fortune for, would have not been a good investment. This book showed us how to determine the value using a what-if scenario that professional appraisers use. We learned that only 70% of the money we were planning to spend would have been a good investment to increase the sales price of our home. The extra 30% would have been an over-improvement in the appraisal lingo which means that we would have been over-spending on the remodeling without getting the increased value and sales price for our home. When you are talking about a $115,000.00 remodeling and improvement job, then that 30% this book saved us is certainly something that my husband and I are very happy to have learned. This book was a great investment for us and has given us a phenomenal return on the purchase price in savings.

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Summary: Appraiser's dream book - beginner or expert
Review: We have one of the busiest appraisal and home inspection companies in our area. We exclusively work for mortgage lenders and banks who are very picky about getting high quality reports and evaluations. We have been using this "A to Z" appraisal book and the "A to Z" inspection book for years as MANDATORY reading for all of our appraisers and home inspectors when we hire and train them. It's the simplest to understand and the most thorough covering all necessary topics that we have found on the market. This book will tell you the realities of evaluating real estate without giving you a bunch of fluff - that's why we like it so much. Our appraisers and inspectors get years of expertise and knowledge in one book without having to make the mistakes they would to learn from their own experiences. It saves us a lot of time in getting our employees up to speed with doing professional reports and evaluations for our banking clients. We can't afford to send our clients poor quality reports since there's a lot of competition in our business. This book keeps us at the top of our game and keeps our clients happy.

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Summary: Excellent choice to read
Review: Yearly I am required to read real estate appraisal books and take continuing education classes since I am a licensed appraiser and I have read many books on this topic. Most of them were very boring and dry. Real Estate Appraising From A to Z was great and reading it was a relief from the usual boring, technical books I have to read yearly on this topic. This was the first appraisal author that writes in laymen's terms so anyone can understand it clearly and remain interested throughout the whole book. There were many aspects discussed by the author that I benefited from. You learn to avoid your own mistakes in appraising by learning from the author's past experiences which I found to be excellent for my appraisal work. I've told a number of my colleagues about this book and they appreciated the advice for telling them to get it and benefited from the content as I have. Whether you're a beginner or expert, you can't go wrong with this purchase. Good luck in your future home appraising!