For several years up until we retired my husband and I had a business among other things providing insurance services (premium audits, fire, wind, liability, loss of income etc. inspections) and also value appraisals. Now an insurance value appraisal isn't nearly as detailed as the appraisals you did but pretty closely ballparked what the replacement cost would be of various structures so that an insurance company could know what coverage was needed.I am not alone on this form as an Appraiser. We were trained actually due to Government. We were perhaps good appraisers prior to the Dodd Frank law, as I was, and yet the public who does not understand appraisals or how they are constructed will talk all damned day pretending they do understand them.
I want to agree with the above. I have never appraised any property, than one, where the owner felt the property was worth less than the appraisal. In the case of one commercial building, this one in fact.....
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This owner was persuaded his building was less valuable than the tax assessment stated it was. I told him my appraisal did not depend on his views, but would be made per appraisers standards no matter the value, the fee was not returnable. And he agreed. As it turns out, I did the appraisal and it did come out that the market had crashed and of course his building value also crashed. The Assessors office did reduce his taxes and used my appraisal as proof. They agreed with it in fact.
Property owners always want lower appraised values for the tax assessor, just enough value on their property that they can afford to insure it, and, when they sell the property, they want the appraiser to come up with a princely sum.
But I still don't know a single mortgage lender, banker or anybody who is going to loan more money than they think a high value property is worth.