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Have you ever...Bought a house? Sold an antique? Inherited a farm? Donated property? Owned a business? Paid property taxes? Bought fine jewelry? Served as an executor of an estate? Given up part of your property through a right of way taking?

If so, then you are like most people who from time to time enter into a situation, financial or otherwise, involving the need for an appraisal. An appraisal is an independent, unbiased estimate of value that often serves as a cornerstone in a transaction. Professional appraisers value property with independence and objectivity.

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ASB & USPAP Brochure
This brochure is intended to help appraisers and their clients become more familiar with the role, function and activities of the Appraisal Standards Board (ASB) and with the process by which the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP) develops and changes.

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History of the Foundation

Title XI of the Financial Institutions Recovery, Reform, and Enforcement Act of 1989
SEC. 1101. PURPOSE [12 U.S.C. 3331] The purpose of this title is to provide that Federal financial and public policy interests in real estate related transactions will be protected by requiring that real estate appraisals utilized in connection with federally related transactions are performed in writing, in accordance with uniform standards, by individuals whose competency has been demonstrated and whose professional conduct will be subject to effective supervision...