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I read a lot of excellent book reviews about this book from many well-known book reviewers. So I bought the book since I am an appraiser and found that they were correct - this is a great book for anyone to learn how the professionals appraise real estate. You don't need to be an appraiser to use this as a reference since the author explains everything very clearly and it's easy to understand. I highly recommend this to anyone in the real estate business or any home owner. I saw that some of the Top 50 book reviewers on Amazon have rated this book with 5 stars also. (Apparently the somewhat negative review written by "A reader from arlington, va United States" was written by someone who doesn't even know that this is a real estate APPRAISAL book and NOT a HOME INSPECTION book since he/she criticizes the book since it's not incredibly in-depth for HOME INSPECTORS. Obviously the book author is interested in writing content to train people about real estate APPRAISERS not to become home inspectors. The book author even mentions that in the book very clearly since the book author has a very in-depth home inspection book which goes by the different title of Home Inspection Business From A to Z. Maybe that "reader" should learn to "read" the title of a book before he orders it and writes a book review!!)

I purchased other books by this author and the prior edition of this book. This is the 4th edition and is excellent. If you want to become very knowledgable about real estate appraising then this is the right choice. It is written in a very enjoyable writing style as though you were a client of the author getting advice directly from him. There were so many topics covered that it was a lot to digest but everything was helpful to me and probably will be to you too. All three approaches to estimating real estate values were talked about - direct sales, cost, and income approaches. If you are a home owner and want to determine the price to sell your house for then you have what you need in this. There are photos and sample appraisals that can simplify the whole process and you don't need to be a technical person to understand how paid appraisers do their job.

This is a fantastic book to learn how to decide what the price and market value is for you house or condominium or rental property. There was a ton of great and helpful advice that was excellent and easy to read and learn from. Many appraiser books are too technical and written only for professional appraisers but this book is written in a way that anyone can benefit from. When I wanted to sell my house I knew that I should not rely on what a real estate broker tells me since they just want to earn a commission. So I decided to read up on how to decide what price to sell my house and was able to do that properly with what I learned in this book. Great book for anyone interested in real estate. Highly recommended if you want to maximize your real estate profits and have a top appraiser walk you through the process every step of the way.