Looking back on an eventful, complicated year — professionally and personally. It’s been a strong year at StoryboardEMP, our fiesty little umbrella company for Appraiser eLearning, Appraisal Buzz, and our private investigator and agent verticals. We brought on a new partner last year at Agent eLearning. Appraiser eLearning had a record year, as did our annual appraiser conference, Valuation […]
Because a single-family home in Denver and a fourplex in Detroit don’t look alike, but they share the same fundamentals: location, condition, quality, and market forces. The new framework recognizes that and organizes it accordingly.
The story is still ours to tell, but the structure lets that story travel farther.
If, like me, you’ve been doing this a while, you might be tired of hearing about “big changes.” Every few years, someone promises revolution and delivers another PDF.
This one’s different.
What constitutes “bias” in appraisal isn’t always what you expect, according to an attorney who handles cases involving appraisers. First, let’s start with a definition we can agree on: Objectivity in appraisals means analyzing data based on well-established principles, free from bias or external pressure. Appraisers know what external pressure looks like. Anybody who’s been […]
The Appraisal Summit | September 27 – 30 | Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino | Las Vegas, NV There’s a LOT going on in the world of appraisal these days. The stakes are pretty high. And you’ve got questions. The Appraisal Summit is your chance to get some answers and find out what can’t be known […]
How do we value the old made new? Adaptive reuse often walks a fine line between preservation and the bulldozer. Once upon a time, a building was built for one noble purpose: the punishment of miscreants, the salvation of sinners, or the general improvement of society through the instruction and warehousing of its children. The […]
AeL partner Hal Humphreys reflects on the mixed blessing of sudden, rapid growth for small business owners. Last week, over at our sister education company PI Education, we hosted our first webinar since last spring. It’s been a long and accidental hiatus, occasioned by things that are, in theory, good: busy times for our various businesses […]