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Data Verification Methods

    Online Education
 
  Seminar    
Category  General/Residential [G/R]  
Attendance Hours  5.0  
Current Price  $ 81.00 AI
$ 96.00 Full
 
  Instructor    
Alan F. Simmons, SRPA  
    
 
  Location    
Appraisal Institute - Online Education
 
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  Sponsor / Contact    
  Appraisal Institute  
Email  OL-Help@appraisalinstitute.org  
Phone  (877) 674-2447  
 
  Description    
Overview:
There are many ways to verify a sale or lease transaction. Even after accounting for differences in personalities, information sought, and property types, no one best way emerges. This seminar offers you a number of proven alternatives to an activity that is an essential part of the appraisal process. Accordingly, the goal of this seminar is to provide a variety of professional techniques that should increase your success in verifying, or confirming, market data. The seminar has been written to appeal to both residential and general appraisers, with exercises for each.


Syllabus:
Introduction
Module 1: Verification
Module 2: Building and Implementing a Data Sheet
Module 3: Interviewing
Module 4: Telephone Interviewing Techniques
Module 5: In-person and Written Interviewing Techniques
Conclusion


Learning Objectives:
  • Recognize various definitions of verification and client requirements for verification of data
  • Recognize how market participants view appraisers and the verification process
  • Build a data sheet
  • Recognize various types of questions and prepare an opening script
  • Describe successful telephone interviewing techniques
  • Explore alternatives to traditional verification techniques
  • Study elements of a survey letter

    • AI CE Credit for Designated members, Candidates for Designation and Practicing Affiliates
    This program is approved for 1 hour of Appraisal Institute CE credit for every hour taken.
 
  Disclaimer    
Cancellation Policy
If you are unable to complete a seminar once it begins, you may cancel out of the seminar before the official seminar end date. Once you cancel out of a seminar, however, you must start the seminar over at the beginning in any later enrollments. You cannot be placed into the seminar where you left off before canceling.

The following tuition refund policy is in effect for canceled online seminars based on the amount of material completed in a seminar:

• Less than 25% of the seminar completed: $60 cancellation fee

• More than 25% of the seminar completed: no tuition refund

   Transfer Policy
If you wish to transfer a registration from one seminar to another, the following transfer policy applies based on the amount of material completed in a seminar:

• Less than 25% of original seminar completed:
  • First transfer allowed: no charge
  • Second transfer allowed:
     $60 charge
           (for 7 hour programs and above)
     $35 charge
           (for 6 hour programs and below)
  • Any transfer not allowed beyond two

• More than 25% of original seminar completed: no transfer allowed

If you transfer from a lower priced seminar to a higher priced seminar, you will be responsible for paying the difference using the automated online system. If you transfer from a higher priced seminar to a lower priced seminar, an appropriate tuition refund will be issued.

    
I agree to the terms and policies set forth under the Appraisal Institute Online Education Policy. I also certify that I am the person identified above under Personal Data and that I will personally complete each assigned module of instruction and any examination(s). I understand and agree that if I misrepresent my identity or arrange for someone else to represent himself or herself as me at any time during the Appraisal Institute online course or seminar, I will be immediately removed from the course or seminar and I will not be entitled to any refund. I further understand that if I am a member of the Appraisal Institute and participated in any misrepresentation of identity, by affirmative act or failure to act, that I will be the subject of a peer review proceeding under Regulation No. 6 for violation of the Appraisal Institute's Code of Professional Ethics and Standard of Professional Appraisal Practice, and that such peer review proceeding may result in termination of my Appraisal Institute membership.
 
  Additional Information    
ONLINE CLASS ACCESS
Please allow 1 hour after registration to start an online session in progress (on or after the session start date). Go to www.appraisalinstitute.org and log in with the username and password you used when you registered. You will automatically be taken to the "My Appraisal Institute" page. Near the middle of that page your course will be listed with a link next to it that says "Go To Class".

If you have any questions, please email us at OL-Help@appraisalinstitute.org.


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