I want to congratulate you for exploring this website. You are seeking to enhance yourself. But more than that, for each new professional with proper training the profession benefits. The basic purpose for creating this website was to provide a series of courses and a reference guide for specific assignments. There will be no product knowledge training but only valuation methodology.
ABOUT
This website came to be when I realized that the trade of personal property appraising was not united in valuation methodology but extremely diverse. Since almost every appraisal is a legal document, it became clear to me that the legal arena had the answers. All we needed to do was research the law and disclose the mandatory laws and regulations that dictated what was proper theory. This is not a website that practices law or provides legal advice. Instead, I am merely sharing what I have discovered. If you disagree and decide not to follow what is posted herein, so be it. I am merely the messenger. But for those who embrace the information, you will discover enlightenment and you will no longer be standing in the dark or shadows.
WHO?
Who is the APPA program for? Both highly trained and untrained appraisers.
HISTORY
Each of these courses has a history. Rather than detail each course, a page exists for each course detailing the history as well as any issues. The appraisal arena is really an arena with politics and competition. Unlike medicine, which publishes a discovered cure or whatever, for everyone in the filed of medicine to read and use - worldwide. The appraisal profession discoveries are guarded like isolated oasis in a desert and you pay to drink the water even if it is not purified. They do not share and instead, pickpocket intellectual discoveries from each other. Unfortunately, new information is merely a regurgitation of previous information. This series of courses’ and the program's goal is to first, add new information (fill the gaps) and second, to offer the opportunity to get educated without taking expensive courses. No matter what your decision is, please learn to render a proper appraisal. This website is offering you that opportunity.
