Author Description

Homeowners pay hefty fees for appraisals. When I worked frequently as an expert witness on property valuation and when I often did home appraisals, I realized that many appraisals were inaccurate and some fraudulent. I also realized that homeowners often confuse the personal value they place on a home with the value that the market puts on the home. Or they do not understand the difference between market value and the total of their investment.To save homeowners from serious mistakes and to help them decide how to increase the value of their homes, I wrote this book. It is full of illustrative stories, and it also follows step by step the Uniform Appraisal Report form that appraisers use.I wanted to put homeowners on an equal footing with lenders and appraisers when they had to value their homes.