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Pay the appraisal profession a solid fee. Get rid of this hybrid nonsense with unlicensed individuals who may or may be able to pass a background check. There isn’t an appraiser shortage. There’s a shortage of good paying clients.
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In reply to Xpert. Ditto. I’m retraining currently in another field. There’s so little work that I’m effectively quit anyway, regardless. All I get are junkers and or stuff that is vastly overpriced and or stuff with few or no comparables. My policy now is that if there aren’t at least two obviously supportive comparables in the subject subdivision within one year, I simply turn it down.
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