Banks can't influence an appraiser anymore than you can now with tight regulations.

Based on some research on previous threads here on BP There is a disclosure that's signed by the buyer at close, Document 92900 B- "Penalties for Loan Fraud: Federal laws provide severe penalties for fraud, misrepresentation, or conspiracy to influence wrongly the issuance of mortgage insurance by HUD.

@Brandon S.Sure, the median price in Irvine today is $850k.Here are the historical Irvine prices, courtesy James Park in Atlanta, using Irvine as an example for Asian market influences.

Now of course, you have different classes of apartments in different locations which have an influence on the type of good it would be considered (ie college apartments, blue collar/working class, upscale, etc) Normal goods in my book to name a few would be retail centers (which typically take huge hits with economic downturns, especially without large anchor tenants), smaller or single tenant office properties, and warehouse/industrial properties (with highly leveraged tenants with tight margins running on leveraged A/R and inventory). 

Whether you consider this might be influenced on how much profit you are looking at.  

I find that when I get stuck if I "turn off" outside influences and listen only to what I know and do then I get myself out of it.  

Divide the remaining term into the cost to replace the component and that will be your estimated cap ex amount.There are other influences that will come into play such as inflation of costs between current costs and when you'll need to replace the item but if you invest the allowance amount in a conservative fund that should generally offset inflation effects.  

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Grounds for denial of issuance of license or for disciplinary action(A) In addition to Section 40-1-110, the commission may deny issuance of a license to an applicant or may take disciplinary action against a licensee who:(1) makes a substantial misrepresentation involving a real estate transaction;(2) makes false promises of a character likely to influence, persuade, or induce;(3) pursues a continued and flagrant course of misrepresentation or makes false and misleading promises through associated licensees or through any medium of advertising or otherwise;(4) in the practice of real estate demonstrates bad faith, dishonesty, untrustworthiness, or incompetency in a manner as to endanger the interest of the public;(5) represents or attempts to represent a real estate broker other than his broker-in-charge or property manager-in-charge without the express knowledge and written consent of the employing broker-in-charge or property manager-in-charge;(6) guarantees or authorizes and permits any associated licensee to guarantee future profits from the resale of real estate;(7) makes a dual set of contracts, written or otherwise, by stating a sales price higher than the actual sales price in an effort to obtain a larger loan from a lender or lending institution or for the purpose of misinforming a governmental agency or any other reason;(8) is convicted of violating the federal and state fair housing laws, forgery, embezzlement, breach of trust, larceny, obtaining money or property under false pretense, extortion, fraud, conspiracy to defraud, or has been convicted of a violent crime as defined in Section 16-1-60, has been convicted during the previous five years of a felony directly related to the practice of the profession, or has been convicted during the previous seven years of a felony, an essential element of which is dishonesty, reasonably related to the practice of the profession, or pleading guilty or nolo contendere to any such offense in a court of competent jurisdiction of this State, any other state, or any federal court;(9) fails to report to the department in writing by certified mail, within ten days, notice of conviction of a crime provided for in item (8);(10) fails, within a reasonable time, to account for or to remit any monies coming into his possession which belong to others;(11) pays a commission or compensation to an unlicensed individual for activities requiring a license under this chapter.

The whole reason all these changes in how appraisals are ordered/done was supposed to be to prevent outside influences from pushing a value one way or the other.