With the current strict lending requirements for conventional loans (10-20% down, higher than average credit score), "going FHA" with a...
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When buying a home, it can seem like there is an endless checklist to complete before you finally get the...
Sometimes reading and understanding an appraisal report seems like an unsolvable mystery. A good appraiser actually has certain criteria that...
Most of the appraisals we have completed are in the Greater Sacramento Area (this includes Placer, El Dorado and Yolo...
Since 2008 and the many new regulations in the appraisal industry since then, we sometimes get questions from Realtors about...
The appraisal business has seen many changes over the past few years, and one area that we love to explore...
Here in California, the drought is big news. In Sacramento, where summer temperatures frequently reach above 100 degrees and summer...
We get a lot of questions about appraisers, and some of them we get over and over again! Here's some...
"Effective date" is a term that gets mentioned a lot without explanation of what it means in an appraisal. Although...
We get this question a lot, from almost everyone we work with. "Comps" refers to "sales comparables," which are sales used...