Continuing Education for Washington Appraisers
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All courses certified by The International Distance Education Certification Center (IDECC®), an internationally recognized certification that validates the design and delivery of distance education courses.
Have questions about Washington’s continuing education requirements?
The courses below are IDECC-certified and approved by The Washington Real Estate Appraiser Advisory Committee. With Appraiser eLearning’s team of industry experts, you’re sure to find the right course to strengthen your career.
Created Exclusively for Residential Appraisers
This course was created to provide a broad review of basic techniques and procedures for measuring single-family residential dwellings. Specifically, it will identify ways in which square footage numbers reported by various sources impact home values. It’s designed to provide a consistent means of calculating and communicating the living area of a house among real estate professionals based on the ANSI standard.
Discover the importance of the MLS and Public Records on the future of the entire real estate industry.
This course highlights the growing concerns over “quality” information used in the determination of home values throughout the real estate industry and offers real estate professionals a stronger understanding of the Public Records system and the “state of information crisis” looming over the real estate and appraisal industries.
Learn the professional application of this powerful reporting method
This 7-hour residential course focuses on multiple areas of the sales comparison approach, including understanding the subject property, the principles behind the sales comparison approach, as well as the physical, locational, and transactional differences that influence the selection, exclusion, and adjusting of comparable sales.
A comprehensive guide on how to keep your appraising credibility
Appraiser’s Guide to Covering Your Appraisals is a course designed for use by real property appraisers, financial institutions, underwriters, AMC personnel, and regulatory entities. The focus of the course is to bring awareness of the many common mistakes appraisers make that often lead to disciplinary action to the practicing appraiser and other users of appraisal services. This course is primarily targeted toward residential real property appraisers; however, it does apply to both residential and commercial appraisers alike.
Learn to develop, reconcile and report the Cost, Sales and Income Approaches to value for 2-4 Unit Small Residential Income Properties.
The mission of this course is to provide students with a complete understanding of the 2-4 Unit Small Residential Income Property Type. By the end of this course you will have a comprehensive understanding of the economic and appraisal principles that support the development, reconciliation and reporting of the Cost, Sales, and Income Approaches to Value for 2-4 Unit Small Residential Income Properties.
Defend your adjustments with market extracted and supported data.
This 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.
Know the USPAP requirement that the appraiser must be aware of, understand and correctly employ
recognized methods and techniques that are necessary to produce a credible appraisal.
This course teaches the student how to use depreciated replacement cost to develop and support adjustments in the sales comparison grid of a residential appraisal assignment. Source documents are examined and applied in real world examples to demonstrate how depreciated cost fits with other quantitative methods of developing and supporting sales grid adjustments.
Video Series
Learn the methods and procedures for measuring and calculating square footage in detached single-family dwellings, based upon the American National Standards Institute Square Footage-Method for Calculating ANSI® Z765-2013 Guidelines. This course is a collection of home measurement videos developed by Hamp Thomas, a certified residential appraiser and Realtor® with over 25 years of experience. Learn from Hamp how adhering to the ANSI® Standard can protect real estate professionals, their companies and their clients.
Learn a standard approach to non-standard properties.
This course teaches the student how to recognize and address various property characteristics that may define a residential property as unique. Unique properties exist in all areas and in all markets. This is not something confined to rural areas lacking zoning, nor to private covenants and/or restrictions, etc.
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.
An intermediate guide to appraising commercial real estate.
The purpose of this course is to introduce participants to the fundamental techniques of direct capitalization, and to support the mechanics of capitalization with an examination of the market factors that influence both the performance and value of income property. Specifically, it is a learn-by-doing study that also provides some discussion of why things work the way they do. Those who are not experienced in the analysis of income-producing property will learn the fundamentals which serve as a stepping stone to more in-depth studies.
By the conclusion of the study, students will be able to perform well-reasoned analysis of income properties; understand gross income, expenses, and NOI; understand how to apply the direct capitalization process in light of actual market activity; and form a reliable conclusion as to value and performance of the property.