• 4 CE Hours
• Instructor: Zack Smith, MAI, AI-GRS

Energy & Mining Valuation Basics will provide students with an overview of appraising mineral rights.  The course will go through the bundle of rights, the regulatory framework, stages of development, and the appraisal process as it relates to mineral rights, including the highest and best use and the approaches to value.

This course is also being offered synchronously on ZOOM.

• 4 CE Hours
• Instructor: Zack Smith, MAI, AI-GRS

Energy & Mining Valuation Basics will provide students with an overview of appraising mineral rights.  The course will go through the bundle of rights, the regulatory framework, stages of development, and the appraisal process as it relates to mineral rights, including the highest and best use and the approaches to value.

This course is also being offered IN-PERSON.

• Instructor: Mark Smeltzer, MAI, SRA, AI-GRS, AI-RRS
• Sign in:  8:00am
• Class begins:  8:30am

This required 7-hour continuing education course, copyrighted by The Appraisal Foundation, focuses on USPAP requirements for ethical behavior and competent performance by appraisers. New case studies and tools are provided to help you learn how to better navigate USPAP in order to solve problems in your daily appraisal practice, and a USPAP Reference Manual is included with the course handbook. The topic of bias and appraisal practice will be covered using Advisory Opinion 16 showing how an appraiser can comply with USPAP as it relates to fair housing laws. The course will help you gain competency in USPAP, and it will help those subject to state licensing or certification and continuing education requirements imposed by professional organizations, client groups, or employers gain competency as well. NOTE. Appraisers must successfully complete the 7-Hour National USPAP Continuing Education Course every 2 years to meet the USPAP continuing education requirement.

Registration includes course materials (not the USPAP Manual from the Appraisal Foundation). When you register for the course the default is to download the course material. If you want hardcopy you have to select that option; there will be an extra fee. This material is required for the course, but it is not the USPAP Manual, it is the student handbook for the class. You are required to have this material in class, hardcopy or downloaded on a computer

Course Objectives:

1. Ensure that participants understand the principles and requirements of USPAP.
2. Ensure participants understand USPAP in the context of current and common issues.
3. Ensure participants know how to use the USPAP publication to solve day-to-day appraisal practice problems.

Equipment:
A laptop computer or tablet device is required for participants who choose an electronic copy of USPAP.

Course Materials Include:

• Instructor: Mark Smeltzer, MAI, SRA, AI-GRS, AI-RRS
• Sign in:  8:00am
• Class begins:  8:30am

This required 7-hour continuing education course, copyrighted by The Appraisal Foundation, focuses on USPAP requirements for ethical behavior and competent performance by appraisers. New case studies and tools are provided to help you learn how to better navigate USPAP in order to solve problems in your daily appraisal practice, and a USPAP Reference Manual is included with the course handbook. The topic of bias and appraisal practice will be covered using Advisory Opinion 16 showing how an appraiser can comply with USPAP as it relates to fair housing laws. The course will help you gain competency in USPAP, and it will help those subject to state licensing or certification and continuing education requirements imposed by professional organizations, client groups, or employers gain competency as well. NOTE. Appraisers must successfully complete the 7-Hour National USPAP Continuing Education Course every 2 years to meet the USPAP continuing education requirement.

Registration includes course materials (not the USPAP Manual from the Appraisal Foundation). When you register for the course the default is to download the course material. If you want hardcopy you have to select that option; there will be an extra fee. This material is required for the course, but it is not the USPAP Manual, it is the student handbook for the class. You are required to have this material in class, hardcopy or downloaded on a computer

Course Objectives:

1. Ensure that participants understand the principles and requirements of USPAP.
2. Ensure participants understand USPAP in the context of current and common issues.
3. Ensure participants know how to use the USPAP publication to solve day-to-day appraisal practice problems.

Equipment:
A laptop computer or tablet device is required for participants who choose an electronic copy of USPAP.

Course Materials Include: