re: Calling all real estate appraisers!

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Basically, many appraisers seem to be giant idiots at best and corrupt at worst.

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County appraisers are often viewed as "worse" because they're employing mass appraisal techniques to appraise thousands of properties a year.

Residential fee appraisers are doing appraisals for $300-$500 so they have to do a ton of them to make any money.

Even commercial appraisal fees have gone down 25-50% in the last few years and typical "timing" of appraisals has gone down from 3-4 weeks to 2 weeks.