Comments on: The Appraisal Dilemma http://www.amybergquist.com/blog/2009/08/18/the-appraisal-dilemma/ News and views about real estate in Greater Hartford Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:48:02 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Nancy Lynn Jarvis http://www.amybergquist.com/blog/2009/08/18/the-appraisal-dilemma/comment-page-1/#comment-23615 Nancy Lynn Jarvis Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:55:05 +0000 http://www.amybergquist.com/blog/?p=3100#comment-23615 I've been a Santa Cruz, California Realtor for twenty years. I used to cringe when an appraiser from the Silicon Valley area (30 miles away) called asking what the last three comps in the subdivision sold for. I could hear the disbelief when I told them we mostly didn't have subdivisions and that it was completely reasonable for three houses on a block to sell for $600,000, $1,200,000 and $790,000. Now the situation is impossible. We recently had our house appraised for a refi. The appraiser was based in another county and was completely clueless. I think I'll stick to taking a time out and continue writing murder mysteries set in the real estate community. So far my suspects and murderers have been Realtors and clients. The next book may have one of them killing an appraiser. Nancy Lynn Jarvis, author of "The Death Contingency and "Backyard Bones" I’ve been a Santa Cruz, California Realtor for twenty years. I used to cringe when an appraiser from the Silicon Valley area (30 miles away) called asking what the last three comps in the subdivision sold for. I could hear the disbelief when I told them we mostly didn’t have subdivisions and that it was completely reasonable for three houses on a block to sell for $600,000, $1,200,000 and $790,000.

Now the situation is impossible. We recently had our house appraised for a refi. The appraiser was based in another county and was completely clueless.

I think I’ll stick to taking a time out and continue writing murder mysteries set in the real estate community. So far my suspects and murderers have been Realtors and clients. The next book may have one of them killing an appraiser.

Nancy Lynn Jarvis, author of “The Death Contingency and “Backyard Bones”

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