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The Appraiser Coach Podcast

Listen while you drive to and from appraisal inspections as Dustin Harris, The Appraiser Coach, gives you helpful tips, tricks, ideas, and principles which will make you a better appraisal business owner. Dustin has been a successful real estate appraiser for many years. As the Appraiser Coach, he has made it his life’s mission to teach other appraisers across the country to also succeed and thrive as real estate appraisal business owners. Join Dustin each week as he keeps you informed with the latest in the appraisal profession, interviews movers and shakers, talks to your peers about what is important to them, and shares with you his secrets to incredible success.

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107 Is Regression Enough with Josh Wallit

Mar 27, 2016

Josh is back and he addresses how regression tools can help, but makes it clear they are not the end all/be all of adjustment support.  Listen in as he describes how regression can be a great tool and it does not have to take a lot of time.  Two links for items discussed in the podcast.

Webinar on Regression

Market Machine Tool

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Joe Lynch
over eight years ago

I appreciate the discussion about regression analysis but the impression I have after listening is that the interview really glosses over a significant issue with multivariate regression.

Confounding is a real problem in real estate. Confounding is when supposedly independent variables (property characteristics) run together. Floor area directly relates to several variables in most markets, such as garage count, bedroom count, bath count, and quality. For example, bigger homes tend to have more bedrooms, more baths, and more garage space/bays. Oftentimes when I run a regression, I get garbage because of confounding.

The podcast really doesn't address this adequately and it's a big issue for residential appraisers.