It is my belief that in order to represent a buyer, you need to know the area well enough to do a good job. I have had experience where a person from a city 50 miles away comes in to a city they don't know in order to show houses that the buyer has found on the internet.The agent has to depend o
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10/04/2007
I've been struggling with doing another bpo and keeping in mind that I am not a fee appraiser and am expected to do a good job for this REO listing. And each time I get to the part that asks how many rooms the house has and I despair again.What, pray tell, is a room? Is a room a large walk-in c
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10/03/2007
I just finished doing an updated bpo for a foreclosure that didn't sell in 90 days or 80 days or whatever. I usually say what I think they will bring on the first one but the appraiser tells them $10,000 or $20,000 higher and they listen to him. I hate having to redo them and come up with the s
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10/01/2007