This article is featured in the 2025 edition of the Appraisal Buzz Magazine. Some other features in our magazine include funny Buzztoon comics, industry trends, as well as crazy stories from ...

Mild mannered appraiser by day, cartoonist & illustrator by night. Steve and his sweet wife, Renae, live in the wilds of Mississippi where he's been an appraiser for 30 years. He loves his kids and ...

That is the response to a question posed by AI to itself. I posed the following question to ChatGPT: “What is your take on AI ...

As we rounded out 2025, we put out a call for nominations for our second inaugural Buzzy Awards. We wanted to once again ...

One of the appraisal industry’s biggest events of the year is back. In this episode, Hal and Jim are joined by Barry Phillips ...

Things Appraisers Can Do That Artificial Intelligence Cannot. These two articles may be read on their own or as a series. A while ago I wrote about “7.5 Things Appraisers Can Do That Artificial Intell ...

I first wrote this blog post on critical thinking in 2013 about “chartered surveyors” (RICS) who allowed false information to enter the valuation process with exculpatory phrases such as “the ...

Short-term rentals are one of the fastest-growing (and most [...] Short-term rentals are one of the fastest-growing (and most misunderstood) segments of the appraisal world. In this episode of the ...

Imagine standing before a beautifully decorated Christmas tree, ready to flip the switch. You plug in the lights and nothing happens. You check the plug, the length of the wire and each bulb, one at a ...

This article was reposted with permission from Ramsey Solutions. The article originally appeared on the Ramsey Solutions Articles page. See original article here. Overall: Expect a slowly cooling—but ...

ServiceLink, the nation’s premier provider of tech-enabled mortgage services, continues to cement its position as an industry Uniform Appraisal Dataset (UAD) 3.6 leader, ensuring readiness at every ...