Appraiser Liability and Credibility Bundle
Get 7 hours of CE and 2 of our best-reviewed courses for $130
Appraiser Liability 101: Essential Concepts (4hr)
Selecting and Supporting Market Adjustments (3hr)
Decrease your Liability and increase your Credibility with this 7hr CE bundle, which includes two of our most popular classes.
Peter Christensen’s Appraiser Liability 101 covers current liability issues for real estate appraisers and the best practices to avoid claims. The discussion primarily relates to appraisal work for lending assignments. An emphasis is placed on developing the ability of student appraisers to apply the learned concepts to their real-world work.
Tim Andersen’s Selecting and Supporting Market Adjustments provides a broad review of basic techniques and procedures for deriving market adjustments and extracting them from available market data.
Essential Concepts
This 4-hour covers current liability issues for real estate appraisers and the best practices to avoid claims. The discussion primarily relates to appraisal work for lending assignments. Actual lawsuits and claims will be examined form the foundation of this course. An emphasis is placed on developing the ability of appraisers to apply the learned concepts to their real world work.
Defend your adjustments with market extracted and supported data.
This 3-hour course was created to provide a broad review of basic techniques and procedures for deriving market adjustments and extracting them from available market data. The course examines the wealth of data in the public records system and explores multi-variable regression analyses (sometimes called automated valuation models), the MLS, as well as the appraiser’s own files. Specifically, this course identifies ways in which time adjustments, size adjustments and amenity adjustments can be extracted and measured from market data. This is in keeping with USPAP and FannieMae Selling Guide requirements for adjustments.
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Course Author
Peter is the principal attorney of the Christensen Law Firm (www.valuationlegal.com). His legal work is focused on matters concerning valuation (real property, personal property and business) and related services. The clients he serves are valuation firms and professionals; technology and appraisal management companies; and also individual and commercial parties who use or rely on valuation services.
Peter’s book, Risk Management for Real Estate Appraisers and Appraisal Firms, was published by the Appraisal Institute in August 2019. He has also published more than 50 articles relating to appraisal legal issues, many appearing in the Appraisal Institute’s Valuation magazine, and has presented hundreds of seminars to appraisers and appraisal/valuation firms.
Course Instructor
Tim Andersen is an AQB Certified USPAP Instructor, consultant, and reviewer. He also does commercial real estate appraisal and Florida tax appeal work. He travels throughout the US teaching USPAP, and is an Approved Instructor for the Appraisal Institute. Have PowerPoint, Will Travel. Besides all facets of commercial real estate appraisal, other areas of expertise include writing, producing, and presenting webinars on all areas of real estate appraisal.
Specialties: Appraisal Institute member, designated as an MAI, Master of Science degree in Real Estate Appraisal , AQB Certified, USPAP Instructor, State Certified General Real Estate Appraiser, Instructor with the Appraisal Institute, Experienced Public Speaker