Detached or semi-detached?

[ZZGAMAZZ]

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No, a home attached to a neighboring home only by a deck is generally considered semi-detached or semi-attached, not fully detached. While a deck might connect the two structures, the key defining feature of a detached home is the lack of any shared wall. Since a deck is not a structural wall, the homes are still considered semi-detached.

Here's why:

• Detached:
  A detached home stands completely alone, with no shared walls or structures with any other building.
  
  
• Semi-detached:
  Semi-detached homes share one common wall with their neighbor. In some cases, the homes might be connected by more than just a wall, but the defining characteristic is the shared wall.
  
  
• Attached:
  Attached homes share multiple walls with neighboring units, like townhouses or row houses.
  
  
• Decks are not structural:
  A deck is an addition, not a structural component that defines the building's separation. Therefore, even if a deck connects two homes, the lack of a shared wall means they are not fully detached.

How the H do you keep providing such helpful, informative appraisal information????????????????

 

[J Grant]

How the H do you keep providing such helpful, informative appraisal information????????????????

IDK, I struggle with each of my own assignments!
I think it does come from over twenty years of appraisal and the number of field reviews I did back in the day. However, I do not claim to have the definitive answer each time, and I can be wrong, or sometimes there are several possible solutions to a problem.

 

[ZZGAMAZZ]

IDK, I struggle with each of my own assignments!
I think it does come from over twenty years of appraisal and the number of field reviews I did back in the day. However, I do not claim to have the definitive answer each time, and I can be wrong, or sometimes there are several possible solutions to a problem.

Do you still communicate with your original mentor?
Do you have a cadre of local/regional appraisers with whom you routinely communicate, beyond the AF?

 

[J Grant]

Do you still communicate with your original mentor?
Do you have a cadre of local/regional appraisers with whom you routinely communicate, beyond the AF?

No, I should send them a thank you note for training me it has been many years and they live actors the country.
I have a very good friend who used to work until recently in San Diego, and we talk several times a week. Other than that, the only ones I interact with are here on the board. On occasion, I run into another appraiser at an inspection.
I think that because I sold RE as an agent for five plus years prior to switching to appraisal, it made it easier to figure market behavior out.

 

[NJ Valuator]

Who owns the area between the units?

That is the property of the adjacent owner. I am appraising the left unit. The owners of each unit do not have access to the other side of their own building. In other words, an owner has to access the adjacent unit's site by opening up the adjacent unit's gate in order to maintain their own exterior wall. Here is an aerial view of the PUD. Some units are truly semi-detached with a common wall, but my unit and others are only attached by decks and fences.

 

[ZZGAMAZZ]

No, I should send them a thank you note for training me it has been many years and they live actors the country.
I have a very good friend who used to work until recently in San Diego, and we talk several times a week. Other than that, the only ones I interact with are here on the board. On occasion, I run into another appraiser at an inspection.
I think that because I sold RE as an agent for five plus years prior to switching to appraisal, it made it easier to figure market behavior out.

Just curious & noisy: Did you have any other prior, significant careers???

 

[DWiley]

I am appraising in a PUD where the units are only connected to each other by their decks; there are no common walls. Thoughts on whether you would classify as detached or semi-detached?

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If I was using a GSE form, I would follow the UAD protocol in Appendix D

 

[Zoe]

It is detached if no common walls. No HOA possibly.

PUD and HOA has no bearing.

 

[Zoe]

If I was using a GSE form, I would follow the UAD protocol in Appendix D

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You do chime in when you want to.

 

[Zoe]

Just for your pleasure, a fence and gate between subject and next door is detached on subject.