ucbruin
Elite Member
- Joined
- Mar 11, 2014
- Professional Status
- Certified Residential Appraiser
- State
- Massachusetts
Nothing wrong with boilerplates. Everyone uses them. All my reports have my name on it already. Why would I type it in every time??? The problem comes when the boilerplate is not adequate or it does not represent the correct situation. Skippies often use generic templates that don't give adequate analysis. That's where the criticism comes in.
How does a boilerplate "give adequate analysis"??? Especially the example provided by Rex????
It's always the other appraisers....
The skippies....
Through the use of paired sales when available within a particular sub market, the use of sensitivity analysis when appropriate, interviews with RE agents, potential buyers and sellers, RE investors and other market participants the appraiser has developed adjustments within local market sub markets (size, lot size, price range etc) that are reflective of typical market participants reaction to the various differences in amenities, condition, quality etc. Adjustments are not necessarily "derived or developed" for each individual appraisal report in a vacuum, but are derived and developed over a long period of time of analyzing similar properties in a particular market sub segment repetitively.
The last sentence is a short and efficient phrasing....
Eliminate the rest of the boilerplate....
Why do old time appraisers feel it appropriate to provide new appraisers with their old time boilerplates????
Or at least give a disclaimer that the examples are boilerplate...





I just noticed that your avatar and the dancing fool appear quite similar?????
