Do Florida County Tax Assessors comply with USPAP?

[Francois K. Gregoire]

I heard that if you are certified and hired as an appraiser with a county in Florida, you have to immediately change your status to inactive.

It depends on the County Property Appraiser. During my term on the FREAB, an active certified residential appraiser, employed by a County Property Appraiser, was disciplined by FREAB for fee work.

 

[Jonathan C]

Okay. My county (Volusia) requires you to become inactive.

Strangly enough, right after reading this post, I was getting ready to get in my appraisal conveyance and a deputy property appraiser was conducting the 5 year exterior on my dwelling.

Nice guy. Just working for the benefits. After I informed him that I was a fee appraiser his eyes widened and he gave me a look as if I were insane.

Then he inquired why my address is confidential. I said, "Well, that is confidential.":laugh:

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

anyone working for the assessor would have a jurisdictional exception.

And no I do not know any assessor who complies with USPAP per se. They have "methods" provided by the state to appraise property

 

[ki18]

Okay. My county (Volusia) requires you to become inactive.

Strangly enough, right after reading this post, I was getting ready to get in my appraisal conveyance and a deputy property appraiser was conducting the 5 year exterior on my dwelling.

Nice guy. Just working for the benefits. After I informed him that I was a fee appraiser his eyes widened and he gave me a look as if I were insane.

Then he inquired why my address is confidential. I said, "Well, that is confidential.":laugh:

Interesting. The assessors in Martin and Dade Counties are licensed/active certs. So I guess like Frank said, it depends.

 

[Mexilady]

Would love to have MLS

I am a deputy assessor now after some 20 years of fee appraisal. I'm in TN and we would love to have MLS, but our local board of realtors does not want us to have access to the information due to square footage differences, sales concessions, etc. The board has to approve all public members and they will not approve us. Assessors would prefer to have more information (makes our information more accurate), but the general public does not want us to know if they are being under taxed due to square footage differences, improvements, etc. They don't want us to know what properties are listed for or if something was a short sale or a 1031 exchange. It makes my job much more difficult not having MLS, but luckily I still have my research skills.

 

[CherylSomething]

I worked for 3 years as a deputy appraiser in Florida. Within 2 years you had to a Certified Florida Evaluator. The CFE comprised of 4 classes with International Association of Assessing Officers (IAAO). The first class I had dealt with USAP, for about 20 minutes of 40 hours. It was very minor. We didn’t have access to the MLS because we only cared about was what sold, not on the market. After each sale that took place the county look at the grantor and grantee and did a deed search to determine if it was an arms-length transaction than qualified or un-qualified the sales. The county was required to use only qualified sales. We than used our CAMA system and compared like properties and develop a PRD (Price-related differential). The PRD could be between 85% to 115% of market value. Sometime when a tax payer called during TRIM notice and was complaining about something and they let it slip about the house being on the market, I would check it out. One for the main differences about mass appraisal and fee appraisal is that the county appraisers are not allowed in the home. Hope this helps