Appraisal Institute Controversy Part 2

[RCA]

I tend to agree, glad to see it's not just me. I try to read the Appraisal Journal front to back, and it's not uncommon to find numerous errors. Occasionally, I have politely contacted the authors for clarification, and I've been snubbed on more than one occasion. Whatever peer review is happening is not working.

I'm guessing they have to scrape the barrel to get halfway-decent articles. I'm guessing those with political pull force their crap into the journal, e.g., Amorin. The logic is probably "something is damn better than nothing." They have long since lost their status from, say, the 1970's. I heard negative comments about the quality from 2005 - from USPAP instructors and other older appraisers.

Few people who do academic quality work will want to publish in the AI. It's not going to help their reputation. So, yes, it is not an academic journal; it is a "trade" journal. And yes, many so-called "trade journals" are crap. Does it deserve the description "peer-reviewed professional journal?" If you understand who the peers probably are, basically on the same level as the authors, you can't be surprised. In any case, don't take the technical articles too seriously, especially the ones involving math and statistics. - They are most likely a waste of time to read.

It would be good to have a high-quality appraisal journal. You have to have people maintain it at high quality, do the peer reviews, and so on. You need funding. With the AI, the funding goes instead to the $200K - $500K salaries for the jokers.