ANSI

[residentialguy]

Measure the exterior and there's your GLA. Treat the stair hole as if there was flooring.
The only time it gets dicey is when the stairs go down an open space. Ansi wants you to figuratively pull the stairs straight up til they're flush with the 2nd level level as flooring.... which can be bs when you have huge round cascading stairs.

 

[residentialguy]

Agree... and Buy the book: Measuring Square Footage with ANSI 2021 by Hamp Thomas. It's available on Amazon.

You'll find it in the fiction and humor section.

 

[Elliott]

From Valuation Review:

"Solidifi is recommending that a comment is added to your addendum of each appraisal report indicating that your measurements for the subject property comply with ANSI Z765-2021."

 

[alebrewer]

From Valuation Review:

"Solidifi is recommending that a comment is added to your addendum of each appraisal report indicating that your measurements for the subject property comply with ANSI Z765-2021."

I'd probably state I 'made every effort to comply' with said standard, as I have no idea that they actually ARE in compliance unless someone from ANSI certifies it...

 

[sputnam]

I say "....were based on ANSI Z765."

It's a good idea to source data or reference methods throughout the appraisal report.... not just for ANSI.

 

[ramrcdk]

From Valuation Review:

"Solidifi is recommending that a comment is added to your addendum of each appraisal report indicating that your measurements for the subject property comply with ANSI Z765-2021."

QUIT THEM A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO. SO, ARE THEY STILL DEMANDING
3-5 day turn times, clock-never stops- based on hours in a day w/ weekends and holidays included?
Are they still stealing oooops keeping $150 - $175+ per Report? Appraisers get @$325-$375?
Maybe that Fee was for certain areas of Capture oooops the country.

They were OK to work with until @4 years ago. OR maybe my Rep' was always having a bad-day.

 

[Mejappz]

Radke of Fannie is taken to the woodshed by a couple of appraisers. Listen to the 35 minute mark .

I have said this before on the forum. ANSI will disenfranchise minority neighborhoods; it’s a racist standard.

 

[RCA]

Use a little math, and it is not so difficult .... at least for the simple case:

 

[Elliott]

I'm not very familiar with 1920's to 1950's craftsman houses with 9' ceilings. A more realistic situation is the 'attic' room with a 7' ceiling which slopes down to 5', or 4', and in neither situation using Bert's method would that be 'finished ANSI area,' while virtually every pre-ANSI appraisal report, a substantial area is included in living area by appraisers, the market, and assessors.

Watch a few remodels of "This Old House" and they are always dealing with ceilings slightly over head height with slopes and spending substantial amounts to capture the space and make it more modern with features.

 

[RCA]

I'm not very familiar with 1920's to 1950's craftsman houses with 9' ceilings. A more realistic situation is the 'attic' room with a 7' ceiling which slopes down to 5', or 4', and in neither situation using Bert's method would that be 'finished ANSI area,' while virtually every pre-ANSI appraisal report, a substantial area is included in living area by appraisers, the market, and assessors.

Watch a few remodels of "This Old House" and they are always dealing with ceilings slightly over head height with slopes and spending substantial amounts to capture the space and make it more modern with features.

Well that's the standard. The issues are:

1. First of all make the decision whether or not the room can even be considered part of the GLA because of the "over 50%" requirement.

2. If you are to include the room, then you need to calculate the area that has a ceiling height of 5' or more, in the fastest and simplest manner possible. I would suggest that you need more math. What I have provided is a gateway to creating your own formulas specific to your market.

In other words, the cry-babies here are simply not thinking about what they are doing --- mathematically.