The words matter and cause problems.
The 1004D requires you to update your previous report. I've done a handful of these and charge $150. The update incorporates the previous appraisal by reference, so everything in the previous appraisal is part of the 1004D update. The form is usually not ordered if the appraisal is more than 4 months old, so the research is for additonal comparables which occurred during that time period. The comparables are analyzed to see if they support or refute the previous appraisal. The problem comes in if they refute the value. Then you have to let the client know that the value is likely lower.
You are a great poster. I don't mean to offend, but too many recently (just two to five years) licensed or certified appraisers don't comprehend "updating" very well and certainly the public and mortgage side does not. That is why I think we have to be
very careful when we express things about this. I appreciate what you meant. I'm just not sure others will comprehend it all like they should.
So I have to post this:
A) The 1004d does
not require a prior real estate appraisal to be "Updated" as if some extension of the prior work is being done. The 1004d represents a brand new real estate appraisal assignment. There exists in the USPAP manual AO statements that expressly say an "Update" is
not an extension of a prior real estate appraisal. It is a new assignment that must stand on it's own under USPAP. The prior opinion of value is a benchmark relative to the new one only.
B) No,
everything in a prior incorporated report is not part of the "Update." For example, the SOW of the 1004d requires a new effective date. It is not a Retrospective analyses reusing the old prior effective date from out of the prior appraisal report. Therefore, clearly, the prior effective date in the other appraisal report is
not "incorporated" by reference or attachment. And frankly, the prior signed certifications are not "Incorporated" either as USPAP would require that the "New Assignment" be completed with it's own new set of signed certifications that meet at least the USPAP required minimum ones.
For me, the above opinion of mine, makes it that a really good "Update" would be one that clearly spelled out just exactly what information from a prior report
is actually being "Incorporated" and what exactly
is not. Again, for example, a prior "Market Analysis" section in a prior report could be completely invalid at the time of the effective date of any "Update" due to market changes. Not clearing up that little matter could result in a misleading "New Assignment" completed on the 1004d form.
C) Problems are greater than just if the resulting value opinion in the "New Assignment" do not find a "At Least" solution to the prior opinion of value. The prior exposure time reflected by the market three months ago may have been 20 days. Now three months later, due to market changes, it could be 180 days. The 180 day exposure time could in fact result in a M.V. of equal to greater than the prior value opinion. But that does not mean the client should expect the new "Updated" M.V. to mean the old opinion of value can be reached in only 30 days of marketing in order to obtain a equal to or greater than result.
Bottom line, my opinion only, the 1004d is a piece of crap form and I suspect a great deal of misleading "New Assignments" are going out reported on it. Appraisers need to grasp "New Assignment" and that only the currently valid portions of a prior report can be "Incorporated" and all other prior report items that are no longer valid have to be declared "Not Incorporated" with the new correct information and analyses provided in the new assignment.