Various Thoughts About Meeting Appraisers in Sacramento

I've always felt it was important to meet appraisers.  And, yes, I do take comps, even though I know they probably have access to the same data as I.  An example of why I like meeting with them is questions sometimes come up.  For example, on an upscale Fair Oaks home a few years ago, the appraiser wondered why he couldn't gain access to a certain part of the crawl space.  He was only confronted with concrete.  I was surprised that he wanted to crawl it at all.  However, I knew when the home was built on the side of that hill, an extra $10,000 of solid concrete work had been involved, in order to secure the home, and keep it from sliding down the hill.  That house wasn't moving or going anywhere!

I have always went out of my way to meet the appraiser, to me I find it was always in my favor and in the seller's favor. Never considered it insulting  I actually preferred it... there was a time when  it was inappropriate to meet and talk to the appraiser but that was a different time and I am so glad we got rid of that concept and the person who was responsible for it  as well...Endre

Good morning Elizabeth. I always met appraisers and provided them with annotated comps. Yes they can pull them themselves but I wanted them to have the right ones.