Eli
Elite Member
- Joined
- May 12, 2007
- Professional Status
- Certified General Appraiser
- State
- Tennessee
Completing the cost approach on a standard 1004 cookie cutter would do nothing to increase public trust or the reliability on MOST residential assignments. The income approach is junk in most residential assignments as it is not what is driving the market. For that matter, the IA is junk on many commercial projects that are selling strictly on a price per sf.
Here you go again making up hypotheticals to support an invalid argument. I do very little FNMA work...prob 10-15% of my workload.
Negative on saying the cost approach is meaningless. You didn't pay attention in class. The income approach on single family residential is very applicable in many cases on single family residential. I guess many of the classes you took didn't go there or you weren't paying attention once again. Remember you lost some credibility with me when you said some appraisers were not choosing a high comp and a low comp and a number in between in order to speed things up. I'm sure the speed thing is directly related to client pressure in many cases. You sound a little defensive to me. I'm on offense. I played outside linebacker and running back in high school football. I understand the difference between offense and defense.
Fastest and cheapest is in trouble from both an offensive or defensive standpoint. Ready position is my best advice. FNMA has a bunch of data that can be used against you if you any type of mortgage purpose work where the government is guaranteeing the mortgage.
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