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LandThink posted my weekly “Country Real Estate” column last week that discussed a low-cost, low-tech approach to estimating a property’s…

Appraisers are being punched up in the courts and the press for not always providing honest real-estate valuations. What’s going on? What exactly do appraisers do? An appraiser forms an opinion of a property’s current Fair Market Value (FMV) by judging its attributes in relation to recent selling prices of nearby comparable properties.