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Have you ever had an appraiser value a home to the sales contract price?

I firt wrote a post tonight Should an appraiser ask for a copy of the sales contract to talk about the reasons an appraiser may need a copy of the sales contract.
The second post I wrote tonight Does an appraiser need to see the sales price on a contract or do you black it out? to talk about the most common answers I have seen to the topic of the sales contract with the priced blacked out or if the appraisers need to see the sales price. I wanted to give a couple comments from what I had found on similar post from a couple appraisers on ActiveRain.
 
This post I am asking Have you ever had an appraiser value a home to the sales contract price?
 
 "I asked the same questiion in my USPAP class. In theory, the appraisal value is not based on the contract price."
"It is correct appraisal procedure to determine that the contract price establishes the upper end of value, unless it is a ditress sale, or a sale between reliatives.
If you are buying a house for $100,000, when you think that it is worth $150,000, you need to look at some red flags ... more

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