I believe that to be accurate, there should be a few words preceding the quoted sentence above: "When computing reserves, I believe they will allow you to use 70% of your IRA balances."

That tends to make me think it must be pretty accurate, imo.

An appraiser would need more information to be able to give you an accurate picture of what is going on.

Need a good site that provides accurate information regarding defaulted commercial notes, any ideas?

It was to verify whether or not the borrower was accurately portraying their expenses and income.

I was looking around, but nothing was registering.But, if you take good notes, take pictures, and take your time, you'll be fine; don't worry about the realtor...he or she realizes that things will get easier too, and they know they their future commissions will come much faster.Like Steve, I can now get within 5% of an accurate repair estimate in about 15 minutes...and it only took a few deals to get to that point...

Tax assessments are generally not accurate at all.

And of course, those factors aren't so accurate anyway, but the point is that the correction factor to apply to the tax assessed value, in order to get the FMV, will vary all over geographically.I think the rest of your post is solid, and it still got my vote.

Is that an accurate analysis?

At least I know that my thoughts on WHY this is happening might be accurate.