Back in the day, changes to the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP) used to take place every year. This event created much year-round excitement for those for whom Standards was a full contact sport. As much as I am a fan of USPAP, dealing with changes only every two years is much more rational and allows a more orderly transition. It also allows for more considered and better vetted changes. [Read more…] about USPAP Changes 2014 – What and Why
2013
Straighten Up and Fly Right
Straighten Up and Fly Right, or, Good Ideas from the Outside?
Appraisers slogged through the long and messy housing collapse: we were told what to do after being told we didn’t do it right before, during, or after. We tried to keep our heads above water all the while resisting being pulled under. And we complained in between gulps of air. Our larger scale contributions to the crisis were not very imaginative.
