You’re closer now than you’ve ever been
Many of us have been creating, ordering and reviewing appraisals for years if not decades. Are you close to the finish line of implementing workflow software that gives your appraisal department a runner’s high? Runner’s high is a deeply relaxing state of euphoria, a sense of extreme joy or delight. Does your current appraisal workflow platform give you joy? A goal to consider is to significantly improve your productivity, moving […]
Appraiser leadership, how’s it going?
Are you at your breaking point? As appraiser managers or firm owners, we often work 10 hour days, but yet we don’t have time to get our work done. Does this sound familiar? Maybe it’s our leadership style that’s the problem. Where’s your appraisal department or firm going? If you don’t know, your people don’t know. You’re responsible. No one else. You. Paint the vision. Can you feel the outcome? Our […]
Appraiser Bias Narrative
You’ve probably have heard what happened. An interracial couple orders a residential appraisal in Jacksonville, value comes in at $330,000 for the black wife and $465,000 for the white husband. Different appraisers, same bank, different comps, different outcome. Do we have all the facts? No. I’m of course on the side of appraisers and fully believe this isn’t a systemic problem, but again it doesn’t matter what I think as an appraiser. What […]
Abundance of Caution
As a fee or bank appraiser, is your productivity lagging behind your peers? Are you stuck at a red light? USPAP defines Appraiser’s Peers as: other appraisers who have expertise and competency in a similar type of assignment. Does that include business productivity expertise and competency? Appraisers as risk management professionals tend to be risk […]
Appraiser Mojo
“OMG, you’re an appraiser? That’s AMAZING!” I hear this all the time…no…never. But why not? Mojo is that exact time when you do something powerful, purposeful and impactful. You can feel it. Others can see it. It’s more than just being cool. It’s having your appraisal department run like a Tesla. Tasks sequenced perfectly. Workflow Master. Total transparency. How insufficient is enough? It’s hard to have mojo if you lack […]
Appraisal department overload
Appraisal departments: absolutely swamped, understaffed, not enough people on my team, overwhelmed, don’t have the time, doing a job that’s meant for two people, working the weekends…in a word, buried. Many new appraisal managers recently left the fee world and are trying to figure out their position. That’s a difficult transition from creating appraisals to […]
