REBliss.com Video: How Real Estate Appraisers Can Use Google Maps to Show Their Geographic Competency

by http://realestateappraisertips.info/ on April 18, 2010


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NOTE: THE “VALUE” OF THIS POST IS IMMENSE AND THE TIME THAT BRYAN TOOK TO CREATE IT DESERVES YOUR VISITING HIS REBliss.com SITE AND LEAVING A THANK YOU COMMENT! I know how much time because I just created my own map below and am so glad I did. BILL

Bryan McDonald with REBliss.com has a fascinating new post about using Google Maps to show geographical competency.

From the post,

The video below shows how you can use Google Maps to show your geographic competency. All you need is a list of property addresses that you have appraised, a spreadsheet like Microsoft Excel, and the website Batchgeo.com.

I have a database of addresses that I have personally appraised since I started my career as a real estate appraiser. I wanted to graphically show my experience so anyone could easily determine my geographical competence.”

Read the rest of the article here!

From Bill Cobb: My Appraisal Software, SFREP’s Appraise-It, has a feature within the File Index to download my File Index data. I took the time to add my list of homes appraised since 2001 (I’ve been appraising since 1991) to the BatchGeo.com site and after about 30 minutes, it produced this map below. This map clearly shows my geographical competency for the market I serve. This is also a great map to add to the home page of my appraisal blog to show the public that I’m not a newbie appraiser. I added this map to the homepage of my http://www.accuratevg.com/.
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1 Ryan Lundquist April 19, 2010 at 6:47 am

This is a great idea!!!

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2 http://realestateappraisertips.info/ April 19, 2010 at 7:50 am

I think so too!!! Bryan M. has provided what may be one of the best tips for appraisers I’ve seen yet. There are so many applications for such a map….expert witness testimony, hvcc compliance, amc assurance, etc..

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