The front-half of your commercial appraisal reports (by self, associate(s), help from LightBox (N1) or other?)

Mark K · Dec 18, 2021

Russ Kitzberger said:
They do residential lending.

I'm assuming you mean that bad commercial appraisers end up doing residential appraising because in the past 2 years I've submitted 3 reports to the state or the Appraisal Institute for incompetence and/or blatant owner advocacy. Two of the three reports were from MAI's for condemnation cases. Absolutely "Made As Instructed" reports with no basis in reality, pure owner advocacy. But the reports sure looked pretty.

PL1957 · Dec 19, 2021

I’ve long held the opinion that my focus needs to be on the area of my expertise - valuation and analysis. Everything else is not my highest and best use.

The front-half of your commercial appraisal reports (by self, associate(s), help from LightBox (N1) or other?)

"Mostly" how do you prepare the "front half" of your narrative appraisal reports?

I do everything myself. Nobody touches the narrative report except me until I finalize the value.

I use an online platform like LightBox (N1-web) and I take it from there until I finalize the value.

My employees or associates use an online platform like LightBox, and I take it through final value.

Employees/associates do my set-up without an online platform like Lightbox, I go from there.

My employees or associates do all the word processing - I tell them what to do.

I have no business responding to this poll because I don't write many narrative reports.

Mark K

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PL1957

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