appraiser

An appraiser is not a highly trained or skilled person.

Lenders do that with the willing cooperation of the borrower (to grant access to the building for the appraiser).

They would blacklist appraiser who wouldn't give them appraisals to fit the loan they wanted to make.

You can't fake a diamond that will fool an appraiser just as easily as a bank statement.

Now a home appraiser valued my house at $150k and Zillow says it is $110k.

As a commercial appraiser and developer/founder, I've always found the crowdfunding CRE idea very interesting, but quite difficult.

Other times they want to know the condition of the property and send an appraiser out to evaluate for repairs and updates.

As a commercial real estate appraiser with a pretty good understanding of land economics, I completely agree.

It appears that Zillow/Trulia/our in house expert appraiser thinks it's $1.5M.

I'm a valuer/appraiser by trade and would be interested to know how you're making calculations.

Still, an appraiser brought in to do a 409a valuation wouldn't be doing their job if they completely ignored the valuation from the latest funding round.

Yes, because who wouldn't want to use the services of an appraiser who is going to sell your company's most sensitive financial information to third parties?

But once you correlate house size (via the property appraiser's website, public records) with house temperate (which the NSA gets from Google and supplies to the DEA) and electricity usage (utility companies roll right over for these requests) it'll be much easier to put together a pool of target-rich "suspects" who need to be "investigated" to generate probable cause.