GA Information Technology for Real Estate Appraisers

This course examines the broad impact of the Internet and focuses on the applications for the real estate industry. There is a brief history of the Internet and statistics on its everyday use today. There are discussions of different types of broadband access and how to get connected. There are examples of hardware needed and discussions of tools such as scanners, digital cameras, fax services and storage devices.

There is extensive coverage of how technology has changed the mortgage lending, brokerage and appraising fields. Search engines and databases are covered in detail as well as how to keep updated through newsletters and listservs. There is ample information on how to take advantage of the Internet to find demographics, government and legal information, sales data, maps and people. Web sites are investigated including how they work and principles of good design.

Approved by the Appraiser Qualifications Board (AQB) of The Appraisal Foundation and the state of Georgia as course approval 38304.

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