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Topics 2025
• The Fine Print of Appraisals: Decoding Extraordinary Assumptions, Hypothetical Conditions, and Jurisdictional Exceptions — 1 Hour Presentation
• RMLS Deep Dive & Statistical Data — 2 Hours CE
• Valuation Bias: The Invisible Fence of Racial Discrimination — 5 Hours CE
• ACLB Update – Spring 2025: Common Compliance Issues,
Emerging Topics and Recent Changes to the Profession — 2 Hours CE
• The Effects of Death in Real Estate Transfers — 1 Hour Presentation
• Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, and the Metaverse:
Implications for Valuation — 7 Hours CE
• Appraiser’s Guide to the New URAR — 7 Hours CE
• Determining Value Under the New Washington State Zoning
Laws — 7 Hours CE
• AI on AI – The Prompt Lab: Engineering Brilliance — 2 Hour Presentation
• Business Practices and Ethics (2025) — 6 Hours CE
Topics 2024
• USPAP Update — 7 Hours CE
• New Washington State Zoning Laws Parts 1 & 2 — 7 Hours CE
• Appraisal Adjustments II — 7 Hours CE
• Residential Upzoning for Residential Appraisers — 4 Hours CE
Topics 2023
• What’s New at RMLS? – Advanced Tips for Appraisers — 2 Hours CE
• Q & A with the ACLB: Emerging Appraisal Topics and Common Compliance Issues — 2 Hours CE
• Valuing Rent Controlled Properties—What Every Appraiser Needs to Know — 2 Hours CE
• Highest & Best Use—How to Handle Conforming, Non-Conforming, Illegal, Questionable, & Unpermitted Properties — 7 Hours CE
• 4th Quarter Housing Market & Economic Update — 2 Hours CE
Topics 2022
• Update from the ACLB — 2 Hours CE
• Unconscious Bias Virtual Session for the Appraisal Profession — 1-Hour Presentation
• USPAP Update — 7 Hours CE
• The “ABC’s” of ADUs: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About ADUs — 1-Hour Presentation
• Digging Deeper – Infill Development — 2 Hours CE
• How to Handle ADUs & Mother-in-law Units — 7 Hours CE
• Highest & Best Use and Market Value: A Conflict? — 1-Hour Presentation
• Creative Financing: Private Money & Hard Money — 1-Hour Presentation
• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: Revealing Relevance for the Appraiser Profession— 3-Hour Presentation
• Portland’s Residential Infill Project — 1-Hour Presentation
• Floor Plans for Desktop Appraisals — 1-Hour Presentation
• Emerging Topics in Appraisal Bias — 1.5-Hours Presentation
• Real Estate Development Pro Formas — 1-Hour Presentation
Topics 2021
• How to Avoid a Reconsideration of Value (ROV) — 1.5-Hour Presentation
• Land Value Dynamics: Digging Deeper — 1-Hour Presentation
• Condition Adjustments–How the Cost Approach Helps — 7 Hours CE
•Microsoft Excel – Data Analysis with Excel Pivot Tables — 7-Hour Course
• Time Adjustments Modernized — 2 Hours CE
• Change is Coming: New Forms, New Narratives, Small Data, & Big Data — 2-Hour Presentation
• Price Indexing — 2-Hour Presentation
• Does Your Appraisal Data Include Racial Bias? — 1-Hour Presentation
• Oregon ADU Zoning Updates — 1-Hour Presentation
• Reduce Your Carbon Footprint: The All Electric Home — 1-Hour Presentation
• Appraising Manufactured Homes — 4-Hour Presentation
• ANSI Measurement Standards — 1-Hour Presentation
• The ABC’s of ADU’s: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About ADU’s — 1-Hour Presentation
• Public Records, Square Footage & the Real Estate Information Crisis — 7 Hours CE
• Microsoft Excel – Data Visualizations, Excel Charts & Graphs — 4.5-Hour Course
• Unconscious Bias Virtual Session for the Appraisal Profession — 1.5-Hour Presentation
• ANSI, Home Measurements, & the Power of Price-Per-Square-Foot — 7 Hours CE
Topics 2020
• Improving Your Appraisal Business — 1-Hour Presentation
• Carbon Free Homes: Features, Benefits, Valuation — 3 Hours CE
• Highest & Best Use — 1-Hour Presentation
• Tax Appeal Appraisals — 1-Hour Presentation
• ADUs: Valuation Challenges & the Law — 2-Hour Presentation
• Non-Permitted Construction & Real Estate Transactions — 1-Hour Presentation
• Non-Lender Assignments & Different Ways to Report Them — 1-Hour Presentation
• COVID-19 Impact on Portland Market — 1-Hour Presentation
• COVID-19 Latest Developments & Collaborative Efforts — 1.5-Hour Presentation
• Legal & Risk Issues 2.0 for Appraisals Stemming from the COVID-19 Crisis — 1-Hour Presentation
• COVID-19 Latest Developments & Collaborative Efforts — 1.5-Hour Presentation
• Legal & Risk Issues for Appraisals Stemming from the COVID-19 Crisis — 1-Hour Presentation
• COVID-19 Rapid Response and Latest Developments — 1.5-Hour Presentation
• Current Local Economic Conditions (Portland) — 1-Hour Presentation
• Appraising Green Homes: Construction Methods & Trends — 7 Hours CE
• USPAP Compliance Issues and an Inside Look at the ACLB — 2 Hours CE
• Cohousing Association of the United States: What is Cohousing? — 4-Hour Presentation
• RMLS Updates — 1-Hour Presentation
Topics 2019
• The Future of Appraisals — 1-Hour Presentation
• USPAP Update: 2020/2021 — 7 Hours CE
• Appraisal Adjustments II — 7 Hours CE
• Disasters, Hybrids and Weed: Special Legal Issues for Appraisers (Repeat) — 2 Hours CE
• Appraisal Institute Fall Conference — 6 Hours CE
• Advanced Residential Applications & Case Studies/Part 2 — 30 Hours Education
• Advanced Residential Applications & Case Studies/Part 1 — 15 Hours Education
• Cost Approach — 2 Hours CE
• Fallacies, Foibles, and Fun of Appraisal — 2 Hours CE
• USPAP Compliance–What the Board is Looking For — 2 Hours CE
• Complex Residential Appraisals — 2 Hours CE
• Condition Adjustments–How the Cost Approach Helps — 7 Hours CE
• Answering Questions After Delivery of the Report — 2 Hours CE
• Leveraging Software to Spend More Time Appraising— 2 Hours CE
• Quantitative Analysis — 35 Hours Education
• Disasters, Hybrids and Weed: Special Legal Issues for Appraisers — 2 Hours CE
• Questions, Answers, and Solutions for Appraisers — 2-Hour Presentation
• Data Science for Spreadsheet Users — 1-Hour Presentation
• RMLS Update — 2-Hour Presentation
Topics 2018
• Residential Report Writing and Case Studies — 15 Hours Education
• Residential Site Valuation and Cost Approach — 15 Hours Education
• Appraising Energy Efficient & Green Homes — 8 Hours CE
• Questions, Answers, and Solutions for Appraisers — 2 Hour Presentation
• Keeping Your Competitive Edge and Your License — 4 Hours CE
• Determining Appraisal Adjustments — 7 Hours CE
• Appraisal of Small Residential Income Properties — 7 Hours CE
• Residential Sales Comparison & Income Approaches — 30 Hours Education
• Residential Market Analysis and Highest & Best Use — 15 Hours Education
• Basic Appraisal Procedures — 30 Hours Education
• Portland ADUs — 1-Hour Presentation
• The Appraisal— Alternatives to the Traditional — 1-Hour Presentation
• A Conversation With a Mortgage Underwriter — 1-Hour Presentation
• Small Acreage Residential — 2 Hours CE
• Expert Market Trends Analyst — 1-Hour Presentation
• Single & Multi-Family Residential Market Update — 4 Hours CE
• Basic Appraisal Principles — 30 Hours Education
• Business Practices & Ethics — 5 Hours CE
• Be a Grassroots Appraiser — 1-Hour Presentation
• Diminution in Value and Stigmatized Properties — 2 Hours CE
• Introducing HERS (Home Energy Rating System) Rated Homes — 1-Hour Presentation
• Casualty Loss & Post Disaster Valuations — 2 Hours CE
• Big Data — Embracing the Future — 1-Hour Presentation
• Evaluations and Alternative Valuations — 1-Hour Presentation
• USPAP Update: 2018/2019 — 7 Hours CE
• Fannie Mae: Appraisal Observations & Insights — 1-Hour Presentation
• Fannie Mae Q1 2018 Appraisal Update — 1-Hour Presentation
• Appraising Proposed Construction — 2 Hours CE
• Real Estate Appraisal Trainee/Supervisor — 4 Hours CE
• ACLB Update — 1-Hour Presentation
• Attacking & Defending Appraisal Reports While Staying Out of Trouble — 2 Hours CE
• RMLS Update — 1-Hour Presentation
• All About ADUs — 4-Hour Presentation
Topics 2017
• Portland Home Energy Score — 1-Hour Presentation
• R [Computer Programming Language] For Appraisers — 7 Hours CE
• HUD/FHA Appraisal Info — 1-Hour Presentation
• Persistent Appraisal Failures — 7 Hours CE
• Appraisal Industry Updates — 1-Hour Presentation
• Oregon Association of Realtors — 1-Hour Presentation
• Stats, Graphs, and Data Science I — 14 Hours CE
• Appraising Homes With Accessory Dwellings — 2 Hours CE
• Completing Today’s FHA Appraisal — 7 Hours CE
• Understanding Highest & Best Use — 7 Hours CE
• Time Adjustments For Appraisers — 4 Hours CE
• Overview of Events at ACLB — 2 Hours CE
• Expert Witness — 2 Hours CE
• Utilizing Local MLS — 2 Hours CE
• Market Value & How to Adjust for Concessions — 4 Hours CE
• The Art of Determining Appraisal Adjustments — 4 Hours CE
• Residential Income Analysis — 2 Hours CE
Topics 2016
• USPAP Update: 2016/2017 — 7 Hours CE
• Federal and State Laws & Regulations — 4 Hours CE
• Complex Residential Appraisals — 14 Hours CE
• Case Studies in Complex Appraisals — 7 Hours CE
• Creating Credible Appraisals — 7 Hours CE
• Economics for Appraisers — 3 Hours CE
Topics 2015
• BREA Update — 2 Hours CE
Topics 2014
• USPAP Update: 2014/2015 — 7 Hours CE
• Utilizing Local MLS — 2 Hours CE
• How to Tell the Story of Value in Appraisal Reports — 2 Hours CE
• Appraising for FHA 203K Loans — 2 Hours CE
Topics 2013
• Advanced Residential Application and Case Studies — 15 Hours Education
• Statistics, Modeling, and Finance — 15 Hours Education
• Selected Topics in Appraising — 20 Hours Education
• Scope of Work — 2 Hours CE
• Rent Surveys & Analysis — 2 Hours CE
• Introduction to Regression Analysis — 4 Hours CE
• Residential Report Writing, Clauses, & Concepts — 7 Hours CE
• Reviewing Appraisals — 7 Hours CE
• Sales Data Analysis — 7 Hours CE
• Enhancing Graphs & Graphical Analysis — 2 Hours CE
• FHA Appraising Criteria — 7 Hours CE
• Inside & Outside the Boxes: Developing & Communicating the URAR — 7 Hours CE
• Litigation Appraisals — 7 Hours CE
• Cost Approach — 7 Hours CE
• Appraisal Roundtable (Measuring Homes, Green Homes, etc.) — 2 Hours CE
• Appraisal Foundation & USPAP Update — 2 Hours CE
Topics 2012
• USPAP Update: 2012/2013 — 7 Hours CE
• Real Estate Specialties — 21 Hours CE
• Legal Consideration in Appraisal — 21 Hours CE
Topics 2011
• National USPAP Course — 15 Hours Education
• Market Analysis and Highest & Best Use — 15 Hours Education
• Site Valuation & Cost Approach — 15 Hours Education
• Sales Comparison & Income Approaches — 30 Hours Education
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