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    Online 60-Hour Basic Appraisal Principles and Basic Appraisal Procedures Package

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    • Basic Appraisal Principles
    • Basic Appraisal Procedures
    Who Should Enroll
    • Beginning real property appraisers
    • Real estate professionals
    • Users of appraisal services
    • College students
    • Accountants
    Course Offerings
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    Course Objectives
    • Recognize the components of ethical and competent appraisal practice.
    • Recognize the distinctive differences among land, real property, real estate, and personal property.
    • Recognize and identify the three major land description systems.
    • Recognize the major components that appear in all definitions of market value.
    • Recognize the definitions of the economic principles of change, anticipation, supply and demand, competition, substitution,
    • balance, externalities, and highest and best use.
    • Solve basic real estate math problems in fractions, decimals, and percentages.
    • Solve for mean, median, and mode.
    • Use a financial calculator to perform mortgage calculations and to solve problems in simple and compound interest.
    • Recognize the definitions of appraisal practice, valuation services, appraisal review, and other key terms.
    • Identify the basic components in the appraiser’s scope of work decision.
    • Identify the eight steps of the valuation process.
    • Identify the basic components and processes used to derive a value indication when performing the income capitalization approach.
    • Identify the six procedures for analyzing land or site value.
    • Identify the three cost-estimating methods used by appraisers.
    • Apply component costs to estimate the cost of residential building improvements.
    • Identify typical elements of comparison used in the sales comparison approach.
    • Analyze sales to select appropriate comparable properties.
    • Derive adjustments using paired sales analysis.
    • Reconcile the indicated values derived in the sales comparison approach to a single point value opinion.
    • Recognize the types of reports used to communicate an appraisal analysis.