How would you survive without the gray area of semantics?
You see, land is nothing more than space--an inverted pyramid, if you will.
How can space suffer a loss unless that 'space' has boundaries and with an established benchmark of market value? What is your space worth.
A question posed by someone who possibly does things backward and in high heels.
I like Jack Nicholson's quote about doing things backward in high heels in
As Good as it Gets, "Without reason or acountability." I mean nothing deraogtory, sexist or personal in that comment. I am simply an ignorant red-neck from the boondocks.
Have we gone beyond the dogmatic statement that land appreciaties and buildings depreciate, or are we still stuck on that obscure, specialized, misleading and inaccurate definition of depreciation?
It seems that our appraisal-teachers forget to remember there is a larger community out there (called clients and intended users) using a similar language trying to understand what we say and that it hasn't had its reasoning powers compromised or its lexicon censored.
This perpetual forum definition maze or whatever it is would be fun if some didn't take it seriously and believe there are rules made up for appraisers that make sense.:Eyecrazy:
When we tackle confoming our rules to something that resembles what the rest of the world does and at least get to a point where the explanations make sense, we will be at the very threshhold of professionalism and ready to educate ourselves in appraising terminolgy that can be used to explain what we are doing.:new_multi:
I for one will appreciate that.
Does anyone have an explanation for how we became strangers in a strange land?
